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Rhino Mocks used in testing the Prism IEventAggregator based code

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:51:27 GMT

Blog post showing how to test (with RhinoMocks) two common cases occuring in code with Prism event aggregator.

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:01:20 GMT

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List in a format allowing easy search & download

Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for natural DateTime operations

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:16:02 GMT

FluentDateTime is a open source library of Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for easier and more natural DateTime handling and operations in .NET that allows you to write code like this: DateTime.Now + 1.Week() + 3.Days + 14.Minutes(); 3.Days().Ago(); 5.Days().After(new DateTime(2000, 1, 1)); DateTime.Now.NextDay(); DateTime.Now.WeekAfter(); DateTime.Now.Midnight(); DateTime.Now.SetTime(11, 55, 0);

Repository<T> good or bad?

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:01:06 GMT

Greg took a bite on current ALT .Net hot topic: Generic repositories

Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:31:12 GMT

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate.

Fluent NHibernate - AutoPersistenceModel auto mapping

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:12:26 GMT

An blog post presenting Fluent NHibernate AutoPersitanceModel through simple code example

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 13: Ruby on Rails

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:46:02 GMT

Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen from the Softies on Rails blog, and James Avery discuss the Ruby on Rails web framework and what Alt.NET can learn from it.

Fluent NHibernate - Working with NHibernate without configuration file

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:46:10 GMT

"I believe that the most important reason why NHibernate is not more widely adopted by general DEV population is exactly the "Java XML configuration" PIA feeling you have while working with it. Great news for all of us from that group: NHibernate is possible to be used WITHOUT configuration files! "

WPF in LOB

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:16:18 GMT

A link to 2 videos of LOB applications developed using WPF!!!

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:31:08 GMT

If you ever wrote code for a non-trivial project chances are that from time to time you stop an think: "I don't know, but I have the feeling that the code is not really clean/too complex/[insert adjective here that makes you feel bad about your code]". Chances are even that you did not had these thoughts - but your source code indeed was not really clean, too complex or what not. While the latter situation is certainly the worse of the two, both situation make clear that we need means to quantify the quality of our code. NDepend is an excellent tool that can be used to generate those metrics

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Dependency Injection is Dead!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:46:10 GMT

The author claims that AOP-assisted Dependency Resolution, where dependencies are resolved on-demand without plumbing code and use of factories, can supersede Dependency Injection... at least in some scenarios. A refreshing view on a topic that tends to become sanctified and therefore undiscussed in our community.

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Wed, 14 May 2008 07:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

Why WPF Rocks (Custom Layout Panel showcase)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:16:08 GMT

This article discuss why WPF Layout model is great... The attached code of some of the best layout panels available on the net is also included (ie. FishEyePanel, FanPanel, TimelinePanel, AnimatingStackPanel, etc)!

.NET runs on Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD ?

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:31:04 GMT

Good news. GNU adds support for .net apps in OpenSource world.

Structure Map intro

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:13:17 GMT

DFT story goes on - this time giving an overview of StructureMap IoC framework

Disable .pdb file generation in Release Mode

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:01:02 GMT

In VS2005 .pdb files get generated in debug as well as in Release mode. This article explains how to stop .pdb files from getting generated.

Design Fro Testability - Castle Windsor (Part 5)

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 20:31:03 GMT

Thisblog post is covering the Castle Windsor IoC container usage with a couple of key HowTo points usefull to anyone considering starting using it

Design for testability - Dependency Injection frameworks fundamentals

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:39:37 GMT

This is part 4 of the blog post series trying to cover "design for testability" question After covering in first 3 parts dependency injection design pattern based custom solutions, this part start journey into the DI framework land :)

ASP.NET MVC Link collection

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:31:02 GMT

Links to get started fast with Microsoft MVC.

Future Focus I

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:46:02 GMT

This is the first of a series of monthly posts designed to give insight into the C# team's current plans for future versions of Visual Studio. Each post will highlight one or more key subjects that will impact users of the C# language. In this issue you will learn about the team's plan for Dynamic Lookup.

There is too much money to be made in software development

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:16:02 GMT

Opionions on the fact that "Too many developers don't have incentive to improve their processes and abilities because they are overly compensated for their skills"

Minority Report-like interaction with WPF

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:46:03 GMT

The guys at Cynergy built a very cool prototype of a no-touch interface using WPF and Wii controller. Here is a video and some insight of how they developed it.

.NET Foundations - Reference type memory allocation

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:57:39 GMT

This is part 2 of .NET memory mode blog post series which tries to cover the memory allocation model of reference types

Measure memory consumption of creating object in C#

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:16:02 GMT

Measure memory consumption of creating object or executing functions in C# A detailed look at benchmarking the memory footprint and the execution speed of functions.