Using Windsor Container to Resolve Dependencies (Dependency Injection)

submitted by brianjlowry 2 months, 11 days ago

lowrymedia.com — In previous articles, I discussed class dependencies, interfaces, and concrete implementations. This article will cover the very basics of setting up Castle Project's Windsor to do dependency injection from a configuration file. read more...

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Dependency Injection at a Glance

submitted by brianjlowry 2 months, 13 days ago

lowrymedia.com — In the course of experimenting with the new MVC release for .Net, I stumbled across a post on the ASP forums where someone was explaining his approach to architecture using MVC. In reading further, I found that he was using dependency injection; a reusable design pattern presumably brought to .Net from Java world. read more...

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Interfaces vs. Concrete Classes

published 2 months, 16 days ago, submitted by brianjlowry 2 months, 18 days ago

lowrymedia.com — When designing architectures in .NET, I frequently use interfaces for parameter types in my method signatures. This post will help to explain why I choose to do this and the benefits of coding in this manner. read more...

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Don't be clever

published 3 months, 21 days ago, submitted by brianjlowry 3 months, 21 days ago

codethinked.com — How being clever can create headaches for you (later) and other team members. read more...

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.Net Performance Optimizations

published 8 months, 3 days ago, submitted by brianjlowry 8 months, 5 days ago

dotnetslackers.com — There are some good ones in here. Keeping javascript business logic off the client-side and on the server side... caching AJAX requests... etc. read more...

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DesignByContract with Fluent Interfaces

published 11 months, 23 days ago, submitted by brianjlowry 11 months, 23 days ago

lostechies.com — I was reading through some blog posts and through a recent post, stumbled across this one from Bill McCafferty and took a look at the DesignByContract CodeProject article. This is just a simple utility class to pass in assertions and get an exception to be thrown with a message if the contract has been violated. read more...

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Nullable Data Readers

published 1 year, 6 months ago, submitted by brianjlowry 1 year, 6 months ago

codeproject.com — FTA: .NET 2.0 introduced nullable types into the CLR which, for the first time, provided the ability for value types to be assigned a null value. However, ADO.NET 2.0 did not introduce any new features specifically for dealing with nullable types. Therefore, one of the primary goals for the classes presented in this article is to provide a simple API for working with nullable types within the persistence layer. read more...

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