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Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:15:14 GMT

Praise for ASP.NET MVC in Action

Visual Studio 2010: Web.config transforms

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:15:00 GMT

Recently I wrote about Visual Studio 2010 and multiple web.config files support. Let's see how to play with web.config transformation so we can use one configuration on development environment and the other for production environment.

NBuilder website launched - Rapid generation of test objects for .NET

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:23:07 GMT

NBuilder now has a website which will serve as the home for all its documentation. http://nbuilder.org About NBuilder - Through a fluent, extensible interface, NBuilder allows you to rapidly create test data, automatically assigning values to properties and public fields that are of type of the built in .NET data types (e.g. ints and strings). NBuilder allows you to override for properties you are interested in using lambda expressions. Example usage: Builder<Product> .CreateListOfSize(10) .WhereTheFirst(2) .Have(x => x.Title = "special title") .And(x => x.Price = 15.24m) .Build(); NBuilder is an open source project, hosted on google code.

What & Why Choose F#?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:48:59 GMT

I am becoming more interested in F# lately, learning a little more on what it's all about and in my travels I have stumbled across a few links and topics on why one should use F# and what it's all about. I thought I might share. Shamefully, I personally have still been too flat out to use it myself, but hoping that will change very soon!

Scott Guthrie's links for May 30th

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:30:00 GMT

More of Scott Guthrie's links: May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio.

A Software Craftsman's 200$ Bookshelf Upgrade!

Thu, 28 May 2009 10:54:16 GMT

About three weeks ago, I asked my readers and some people in the Norwegian developer community about what books they have in their bookshelf. The response was good, and I ended up with many good book recommendations. Today I placed a new order on Amazon, and spent 200$ to upgrade my bookshelf. If you read further, you'll see which books I ordered.

.Net Framework 4.0: Using System.Lazy<T>

Thu, 21 May 2009 20:42:28 GMT

.Net Framework 4.0 provides us with a new class called Lazy<T>. As documentation sais then Lazy<T> provides support for several common patterns of lazy initialization, including the ability to initialize value types and to use null values. So it is construct that helps us implement lazy loading.

Announcing FsCheck 0.6

Thu, 14 May 2009 01:57:38 GMT

New version of FsCheck with C# and VB support.

Windows 7 RC out this week

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:15:36 GMT

Go check-out the latest changes!

Why Developers are Not Allowed to Work from Home?

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:15:17 GMT

I consider Software Engineering a less expensive occupation to start. All you need is a decent machine which is worth a couple of hundred bucks and then you are all set to explore the world of lamdas and goto statements. Software engineering is also one of the fields in which you don't have to physically show up at work. You can wake up and start your job in your pajamas. Strangely, most of the employers don't allow working from home. Employers often relate working from home as watching an action movie on a 27 inch TV instead of a big screen; it just does not have the same effect. Employers also believe that when a developer is working from home he/she is slacking off and not getting any work done. Although there is some weight in their beliefs but these small problems can be resolved easily.

NHibernate & Linq

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:32:18 GMT

A quick mock up of what NHibernate and Linq can bring to your application, finally making it easy to remove the leakage both through your code and mentally that NHibernate sometimes causes..

.Net Mocking Frameworks - Capability Comparison

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:40:12 GMT

A summary of the capabilities of four of the most popular mocking frameworks for .Net.

Learning resources for .NET 4.0 new features

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:16:03 GMT

A comprehensive list of articles for .NET 4.0 new features

Kobe - In the nuts & bolts and don't really liking it

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:16:02 GMT

There is another ASP.Net MVC sample app, this time it is official, passed the proper review procedure, and is explicitly marketed as "intended to guide you with the planning, architecting, and implementing of Web 2.0 applications and services." I am saying all of that in order to distinguish it from Oxite, which was non of this things. There have been a couple of reviews of Kobe already. Frankly, I don't really care for them, mostly because I think that they dealt too much with nitty gritty details of the app that doesn't really matter much. I don't much care for extra using or the use of System.Int32 vs. int, the naming convention used or even what sort of HTML formatting they used. I mostly care about the code and architecture. So I decided to take a look myself.

Kobe - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Karl Seguin weighs in on the latest MS ASP.NET MVC sample app

Making Unity work more like the others

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:16:14 GMT

I love MS Unity as an IoC container, it has some great features. Though I found it to function incorrectly at two points (it's not that the path chosen by the Unity team is incorrect, I just want/excpect it to act differently). The first thing that bothered me was the fact that Unity throws an exception when Resolve<T> is not able to resolve the given type: I'd prefer it to return null instead, hence most containers do that. The second, even more irritating point, was that ResolveAll<T> only returned the named instances/types instead of all registered types

string.Empty versus ""

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:01:02 GMT

The author shows ways that "" is better than string.Empty and results in clearer and possibly faster code.

ReSharper 4.5 gone gold

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:16:11 GMT

JetBrains has released version 4.5 of their multi purpose productivity plugin for Visual Studio, ReSharper. This updates contains some pretty cool features. For example, solution wide analysis now checks for members that can be made internal. Also, JetBrains promises to have improved performance and memory use. All in all certainly an update that is worth installing, especially because updating from licenses for version 4.0 and above is free

Guess What I'm Reading

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:21:32 GMT

The .Net book I'm currently reading.

Kanban Lessons Learned

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:14:52 GMT

After seeing success with Kanban in a production support environment (part 1, part 2), we decided to give it a try in a new development situation. This project was a mix of new development and working with an inherited code base to implement some existing features differently.

Visitor.. What's in a visit anyways...

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:04:52 GMT

Use C# 3.0 features to perform classic "Visit" operations elegantly and reducing code bloat in the process.

Announcement of Rhino Queues

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:36:32 GMT

Looks like the start of something good. Looks simple. Not yet looked at the code to see the complexities it has, but it is said to fully support System.Transactions, which is no easy task.

Back to the future! Exploring ASP.NET MVC Futures

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:01:19 GMT

For those of you who did not know yet: next to the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 version and its source code, there's also an interesting assembly available if you can not wait for next versions of the ASP.NET MVC framework: the MVC Futures assembly. In this blog post, I'll provide you with a quick overview of what is available in this assembly and how you can already benefit from. "the future".

New StringOr<T> in Base Class Library 4.1

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:30:29 GMT

A must read for all developers.

M is to DSL as Drag & Drop is to programming

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:31:15 GMT

I see M as a whole lot of effort trying to optimize something that is really not that interesting, complex or really very hard. I look at the M language, the way that you worked with, the tooling and the API and I would fully agree that it is a nice parser generator. What it is not, I have to say, is a DSL toolkit. It is just one, small, part of building a DSL. And, to be perfectly honest, M is the drag & drop of DSL.