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Correctly disposing using the using()-statement

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:16:07 GMT

A nice little article for newbies about how the using()-statement in C# works.

NHibernate 2.0 Supa' Layer

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:46:03 GMT

Essentially I wanted a way to make queries work better within the context of a Domain Driven Design approach. I'm a big believer in Persistence Ignorance, so this means that I had to find a way to represent queries in a provider independent way. LINQ does this for me, mostly, but I still need a 'syntactically pleasing' way to get the LINQ provider to the query at runtime. Well, it turns out that doing this is pretty easy.

UI design patterns library

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:46:02 GMT

Very cool site which shows give you ideas about visual presentation for misc elements of user interface

Visualizing the .NET Framework

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:16:02 GMT

This was done using NDepend. The numbers are quite large - e.g. 39,509 types.

The Entire Patterns and Practices catalog in one place

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 04:01:02 GMT

The P&P group at MS is dedicated to enabling YOU, the developer, implement the best patterns and follow practices designed to increase your chances for success. At this link is a full list of the P&P group's catalog, including application blocks, reusable code, factories, guides, patterns and tools. Sweet.

Something you probably don't know about enums in C#

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:31:02 GMT

Do you think the use of an enum in your code is limiting the possible values that can be used? Think again. Maybe we need to learn to be more careful about checking our enums for valid values.