DotNetKicks.com : Stories kicked by projetix

Generic Repository

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:16:08 GMT

The purpose behind the repository pattern is to provide a layer of abstraction between your domain and data layer. For smaller projects, this typically isn't needed. However, larger projects can really benefit from a broker that specifically handles the back and forth between the two layers. With repositories your domain objects aren't burdened with infrastructure details and can therefore better focus on domain-specific behavior.

Decoupled design with events

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 07:01:02 GMT

In this post, Tuna tries to illustrate the use of Events as a way to have decoupled architecture. He also points out the what he thinks as a problem with Rob Conery's Akismet implementation for his Oxite Refactor.

ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate shipping in January

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:01:02 GMT

ScottGu talks about the upcoming Release Candidate of ASP.NET MVC V1 and the features it brings to the table

Saving DotNetKicks

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:16:03 GMT

Keyvan wrote something about our popular social bookmarking site, DotNetKicks and talked about some spamming problems on DNK and discussed about saving DNK from this situation. A must read post for all DotNetKicks lovers!

Top 100 Blogs for Developers

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 01:46:02 GMT

Jurgen Appelo outlines 100 blogs developers should be paying attention to.

Track your car expenses in the cloud! CarTrackr on Windows Azure - Par

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:46:07 GMT

As you may see in the title, I will be starting a series on modifying my CarTrackr sample application to a cloud-based, Windows Azure application. At this point, I don't know if it's easy nor do I know what it takes to achieve this goal. I only have some assumtions on how CarTrackr can be converted to a cloud application. This post is part 1 of the series, in which I'll describe the architecture of Windows Azure and what I think it takes to convert my ASP.NET MVC application into a cloud application.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

Solving common problems with Compiled Queries in Linq to Sql for high

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:01:02 GMT

If you are using Linq to SQL, instead of writing regular Linq Queries, you should be using Compiled Queries. if you are building an ASP.NET web application that's going to get thousands of hits per hour, the execution overhead of Linq queries is going to consume too much CPU and make your site slow. There's a runtime cost associated with each and every Linq Query you write.

How To Unit Test - Using SubSonic

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:33:27 GMT

Scenario In this post I'm going to create a simple application to insert customers into our database via a console application and also have a list of customers printed out to the console. Similar to the previous post. The application will be separated into three parts. SubSonic will be used for all the database access, a middle layer will be the 'glue' and perform validation on the input (this could be business rules) and will sit on top of subsonic classes. This will then be accessible from the console application (but it shouldn't take much to change this to a WinForm/WebForm application). I know it's simple (and a bit uninteresting) but I just want to demonstrate the concepts more than anything else.

Creating Zip Archives In .Net Without An External Library

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:16:03 GMT

Jon Galloway offers his advice on creating your own zip library. SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging.

How MVC, jQuery, and SubSonic will make you smile

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:46:03 GMT

Rob shows off some early prototype bits for some mvc.net bits that he's baking into SubSonic.

Remove generated JavaScript from your pages

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:31:03 GMT

One of the things that have always seemed a little weird to me is that ASP.NET auto-generates JavaScript and injects it in the rendered HTML. The JavaScript is needed to handle validation, postbacks, callbacks etc. but why does it have to write the same static functions when it could just as well be placed in a referenced .js file? If all the static functions where placed in an external .js file, it would be downloaded once instead of every time a page loads.

21+ FREE Regular Expression Tools & Resources (for .Net Developers)

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:31:02 GMT

A list (and review) of 21+ FREE Regular Expression tools and resources, mostly for .Net developers.

SubSonic ASP.NET Providers

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:16:03 GMT

I am announcing the SubSonic ASP.NET Providers (now only Membership and Roles) using the SubSonic DAL and the official Beta 1 release.

Implementing a jQuery-Calendar ASP.NET Control

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:46:02 GMT

I've posted a wrapper ASP.NET around the jQuery-calendar control from Marc Garbanski. This small client side calendar control is compact, looks nice and is very easy to use and I've added an ASP.NET wrapper around it so it can more easily be more easily used with ASP.NET applications by dragging and dropping onto a form and supporting postbacks of the SelectedDate.

15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:16:02 GMT

After some extensive researching (Googling), I've compiled this list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster, however, none are guaranteed to help you get with the ladies.

AJAX: Forget the form post and waiting

Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:21:07 GMT

AJAX can help you by helping you to improve the sites which don't throw away all the data at once to the end-user, hence reducing the page size and also removing the frustrating whole page load scenario.

Extending the BlogEngine.net

Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:01:02 GMT

I've been using the BlogEngine.net for some time and I just have to say it rocks. Since it uses a Event model, extending the engine is easy. So, here it is a extensions engine for the BlogEngine.net

Open source .NET libraries you should be already using

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 19:46:03 GMT

As we know, there are many good, enterprise level, open source libraries, frameworks and projects implemented in Java. Most of them are being ported into different platforms like .NET and PHP, so developers are migrating to the these platforms with their familiar tools. For example, i have been using Ant, JUnit, Log4J, iText and many mores when i was developing in Java, but now i am still using Log4Net and Nunit in my current

An HttpModule that moves ViewState to the bottom of the Page

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:28:19 GMT

Techniques to move the ViewState to the bottom of the WebForm has been published many times before. What I wanted was adding the functionality to an HttpModule. The technique to move the ViewState is borrowed from Scott Hanselman while the HttpModule implementation is my own. As Scott writes, it is a very low impact technique (0.000995 second) even though it hasn't been fully tested for a variety of scenarios.