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Fluent NHibernate - Working with NHibernate without configuration file

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:46:10 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

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:16:18 GMT

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

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:31:08 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

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:01:02 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 14:46:10 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!

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:01:04 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)

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:16:08 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 13:31:04 GMT

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

Structure Map intro

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:13:17 GMT

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

Disable .pdb file generation in Release Mode

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:01:02 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 13:31:03 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 08:39:37 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 13:31:02 GMT

Links to get started fast with Microsoft MVC.

Future Focus I

Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:46:02 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 02:16:02 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 09:46:03 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

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:57:39 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 08:16:02 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.

Attach to ASP.NET process with one keyboard shortcut

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:46:04 GMT

Launch attach to process faster with this simple macro to debug your applications.

NET Foundations - Execution model

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:49:20 GMT

This is second part of blog posts trying to give answers on some common foundation .NET questions... In this post the subject is .NET execution model

.NET fundamentals - Assembly structure

Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:12:11 GMT

This is first part of series of blog posts trying to give solid answers on some common foundation .NET questions... In this post the subject is structure of .NET assembly, how c# code becomes IL code etc...

Foundations of Programming - Part 5 - Unit Testing

Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Part 5 in Karl Seguins article series

XamlPadX V3.0 released

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:16:02 GMT

XamlPadX v3.0 is finally released. This tool now provides plugin support so that users can add their own add ins. Download it before the server comes down with the heavy traffic :)

MVP vs MVC

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:46:02 GMT

With all the noise around MVC.NET this days, question what is the difference between MVC and MVP is asked quite frequentlly. Check out this blog post for some answers on that question

Why throw; is not allways the best way to rethrow exceptions

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:01:02 GMT

This blog post explains why the standard throw; approach of rethrowing exceptions is not the best in case you care of the full stack trace information