NHibernate 2.0 is out

ayende.com — Directly from the blog of Ayende, NHibernate 2.0 is out!! read more...

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The Onion Architecture

jeffreypalermo.com — The fundamental rule is that all code can depend on layers more central, but code cannot depend on layers further out from the core. This architecture is unashamedly biased toward object-oriented programming, and it puts objects before all others. read more...

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Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications

published 1 month, 3 days ago, submitted by brandewinder 1 month, 4 days ago

lostechies.com — With Rhino Mocks 3.5 just around the corner, I've started using it to create much more readable tests. One of the things that always bothered me with Expect.Call, constraints and the like was that it mixed in the Arrange with Assert. For those that haven't heard of AAA, it's a pattern for authoring unit tests: * Arrange - set up the unit under test * Act - exercise the unit under test, capturing any resulting state * Assert - verify the behavior through assertions As I moved towards BDD context/specification style tests, working with Rhino Mocks didn't fit the picture very well. But with the new AAA syntax of Rhino Mocks 3.5, I can very cleanly separate out the behavior I want to observe from the mechanics of setting up the test. read more...

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Foundations of Programming - Learning Application

codebetter.com — If you're anything like me, you probably learn a lot better by going through code rather than reading books. I'm happy to release the Foundations of Programming Learning Application - it's a complete solution meant to show what was covered in the Foundations series. read more...

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Project anti-pattern: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File

lostechies.com — I've been hearing from several colleagues about how their Visual Studio solution files have many (i.e. more than 10, and usually more than 30 -- in one case, more than 100!). So far, none of them have been able to give me any good explanation for why this is and most of them hate it but they can't change it because their architect/lead/whatever won't let them. I'm hoping that by getting the discussion going on this in the greater community, we can try to discourage everyone from having lots of projects in a solution. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC preview release 4 - part 1

weblogs.asp.net — The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET MVC. Starting with Preview 4 this week you'll start to see more and more higher level features begin to appear that build on top of the core foundation and add nice productivity. There are a bunch of new features and capabilities in this new build - so much in fact that I decided I needed two posts to cover them all. This first post will cover the new Caching, Error Handling and Security features in Preview 4, as well as some testing improvements it brings. My next post will cover the new AJAX features being added with this release as well. read more...

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Alt.NET Podcast Episode 7 - Object-Relational Mapping

published 1 month, 6 days ago, submitted by powerrush 1 month, 18 days ago

altnetpodcast.com — In this episode Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) and Jeremy Miller discuss Object-Relational Mapping and when to use ORM tools. read more...

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Aggiorno, the Italian colleague you've always wanted

peter.worksontheweb.net — Review of the new Aggiorno plugin for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 read more...

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