James Kovacs (http://www.jameskovacs.com) is highly regarded figure in the .NET consulting community. The video linked in this kick is a great talk on how to simplify your codebase using Convention over Configuration with your IoC container. It also briefly touches on some other topics like testin...

However skilled you are as a technician, without the appropriate tools you would still be a dud. Just like a craftsman knows his/her tools, a software professional also has to know the tools that are apt for the job.

A simple, easy to follow example of implementing IoC using Castle Windsor

Javi shows how to implement WCF singleton proxies with Castle taking into account faulted state scenarios.

Testing code that uses Castle ActiveRecord business objects requires some sort of back end for persistence. This approach allows you to use a "mock" back end with ActiveRecord so that you don't need to rely on a file system or database service to unit test your services.

A second part of popular IoC frameworks comparison.

A first part of feature comparison between the most popular DI (IoC) Frameworks: Castle, Unity, Autofac, Ninject, StructureMap and Spring.Net.

In a strategic move on Microsoft’s part that has the open source community buzzing, the well-known and respected founder of the Castle Project Hamilton Verissimo has accepted a position with Microsoft’s MEF group.

About integrating Castle Windows and NHibernate with WCF making use of Rhino tools

Simplified calls to remote services are among the most useful features of the Java Spring framework. In .NET, I use Castle for the application framework wiring and I was looking for something similar — it turns out that the remote proxy calls are incredibly simple with Castle as well.

In this post, Javi shows how to apply parameter validation in WCF services using Castle WCF facility and the Enterprise Library Validation Block.

Part 3 of RhinoCommons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC Setting up the very simple model for use in our ASP.NET MVC application.

Using Rhino Commons, NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC for quick website development. Part 1 (Setting everything up)

After Javi explained in the first post these series the problems you may run into when applying Dependency Injection in your distributed service layer, and in the second one how to put the theory in practice using Castle Windsor WCF Facility, in this post Javi explains how to appy cross cutting con...