Yeah, it does! And I don’t necessarily mean denial of service - that would mean that I couldn’t get any programming done. Nope, far from it - but it sure is denial of sleep attacking me. Come one, I am struggling to keep up with all the new runtimes, features, frameworks and best practices coming ou...

How you can use Entity framework to do some basic logic when a change happens in related entities or “Associations” as it is called. And Example on how to update of an Order’s Total Amount when its Order Details get changed, Added or deleted using Entity Framework.

TNValidate is a fluent validation library for .Net. It allows you to write validation logic in a form that is readable both by programmers and non-programmers, but still entirely in your .Net language. TNValidate has plenty of built-in validation rules, but also provides an extension mechanism to ...

We've faced this problem recently where Enterprise Library was crashing. Not everywhere... just on this little line of code. We were trying to save to a database asynchronously but if the database was not available, it threw an exception which Enterprise Library was supposed to catch. However, th...

Download the Beta release of the DataDirect Connect for ADO.NET Entity Framework provider for Oracle today!

This post reviews several frameworks used for creating graphical user interfaces. I've decided to create such a review after noticing many programmers take a specific GUI framework for granted, as it is their automatic-choice-by-tool (i.e., they use what they're IDE let them, barely understanding th...

Provider Aggregator Pattern is an extension of Provider Pattern, which enables us to create and utilize multiple instance of the class having the same provider interface. In this pattern, there is an Aggregator class which implements the provider interface and contains a collection of instances of c...

I’ll be fair with you readers. I’ve only toyed with the ASP.NET MVC framework. It looks great as of now but it’s the first full blown MVC framework that we have that is backed by Microsoft. However, there is a lot of opposition nowadays that tend to be formulated like this: Why should I use ASP.N...

This is the IL DASM extracted from .NET Framework 4.0 CTP ILDASM is a tool contained in the .NET Framework SDK. It can be used to disassemble PE files containing Common Intermediate Language code.

As every mocking framework, except TypeMock which can perform differently, every mocked class can't be sealed and methods that need to be mocked need to be public. If the class is not inheriting from an interface, the method that are being mocked need to be virtual. Once this is cleared... let's...

This is the first post of a serie on mocking with Moq. I'll be giving a conference a .NET Montreal Community on February 25th and I though there it would be good reference to anyone attending the @Lunch event.

Wondered why Microsoft always seems to release different language features for each language? Discover how .NET 4.0 will reduce the disparity between C# and VB.NET with some great new features for both languages, plus a new dynamic language runtime and new functional and parallel programming languag...

The post introduces the Microsoft Sync Framework which will be one of the developers must know tool in the near future.

Just a quick recommendation note: One of my colleagues, Julien Hanssens, has started blogging on his experiences with the Entity Framework and LINQ. Here are some links to get you started