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Wanted: Entity Framework Suggestions

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:48:42 GMT

Entity Framework has matured, and it is finally time to create CodeSmith Generator templates for EF! The dev team at CodeSmith Tools is looking for suggestions on what to include in their upcoming Entity Framework templates.

Tekpub ASP.NET MVC 2 Starter Site 0.5 Released

Tue, 25 May 2010 23:20:29 GMT

"I've been working on a couple of side jobs and one of the fun things I've been able to do is refine Tekpub's MVC Starter Site - fixing some bugs and also adding functionality. I've been meaning to talk about this more - so here goes. I'll show you how you can use the Starter Site to build out... oh let's just say a nice Music Store :)."

Simplify, Shorten and Speed Up Your LINQ Statements with "Let"

Wed, 12 May 2010 18:45:52 GMT

Details how using the "let" keyword can make your LINQ statements shorter and faster.

Introducing Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:15:02 GMT

I have just included a Fluent Metadata provider in my open source System.Web.Mvc.Extensibility project. Currently it contains all of the features of the Built-in DataAnnotations Metadata provider that comes with the ASP.NET MVC 2 framework. Consider it as a holiday special from me for the ASP.NET MVC community :-). The main reason I am no...

More on Fluent MetadataProvider for ASP.NET MVC - Kazi Manzur Rashid

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:00:01 GMT

In my last post, one of the thing you complained about the maintaining view model meta data configuration in two separate place and I admit this becomes a pain when you skim through the codes. I have changed the implementation, so now you will be able to configure the meta data very much like the Fluent NHibernate or Entity Framework 4.0 Code ...

C# Artificial Intelligence (AI) Programming: A Basic Object Oriented

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:30:00 GMT

A Neural Network is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodology that attempts to mimic the behavior of the neurons in our brains. In this article, we'll be building a basic framework for AI Neural Networks in C# and teach our program to perform basic X-OR operations.

Gene Expression Programming (GEP) in C# and .NET

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:45:02 GMT

Gene Expression programming (GEP) is a subset of Genetic Algorithms, except it uses genomes whose strings of numbers represent symbols. The string of symbols can further represent equations, grammars, or logical mappings.

AspectF fluent way to add Aspects for clearner and more maintable code

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:01:58 GMT

Aspect Oriented Programming allows you to write cleaner and more maintainable code. But it requires using some third party framework or some C# dark magic. AspectF shows you a simple way to do AOP style coding without requiring any framework or dark magic at all.

Using a Genetic Algorithm to Do Consultant Scheduling in C#

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 05:45:04 GMT

This article describes a way to use a type of genetic algorithm called PBIL (Population Based Incremenetal Learning) to optimize the scheduling of consultants on a group of 5 project.

Writing Great Unit Tests: Best and Worst Practises

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:30:04 GMT

A suite of good unit tests is immensely valuable: it documents your design, and makes it easier to refactor and expand your code while retaining a clear overview of each component's behaviour. However, a suite of *bad* unit tests is immensely painful: it doesn't prove anything clearly, and can severely inhibit your ability to refactor or alter your code in any way. How can you be sure to write unit tests that contribute positively to your project and don't end up being a liability?

Get Countries Name in .Net

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:30:09 GMT

In this post, I will explain you how can we get the countries name filled in any collection using .net without using any database. It is a regular task, which we all as developers did some past day but the difference is we used database table or xml file to hold the country names. But .net framework provide us with all the countries information in Globalization namespace.

ASP.NET MVC, DynamicData, Domain-/RiaServices, Unity and NHibernate

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:15:00 GMT

For this project the following (extensive) list of libraries is used (all these libraries are included in the download): * MS ASP.NET Mvc 1.0 * Microsoft .NET RIA Services July 2009 Preview * NHibernate 2.1.0CR1 * NHibernate Linq (latest trunk version) * FluentNhibernate (latest trunk version, patched to work with NHibernate 2.1.0CR1) * MS Unity 1.2 * ASP.NET Dynamic Data MVC Preview (since this project is pretty old, I had to modify it quite a bit, the source is included in the download) * I used Rob Conery's t4 templates as the base to generate entities from the database.

Sharp Architecture RTM

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:45:01 GMT

A well worked and actively contributed lightweight framework to build ASP.net MVC apps with NHibernate.

Subsonic 3 released

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:45:05 GMT

Just read Rob Conery's Blog and saw that Subsonic 3 is now available for download. For those unfamiliar with Subsonic it really is the ONLY no BS ORM out there, in fact it is so easy to get up and running that it is easy to forget that you ever set it up in the first place. The whole Subsonic ethic is to remove the hoops that other ORM's have you jump through and essentially to get you home earlier.

LINQ to SQL is NOT dead!

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:00:03 GMT

Ever since Microsoft announced that the Entity Framework was their ORM of choice, people everywhere have been saying, "LINQ to SQL is dead!" A lot of people feel like they're not allowed to use LINQ to SQL anymore and that they have to use Entity Framework instead. In fact, LINQ to SQL is not only alive and well, Microsoft has even announced LINQ to SQL improvements in .NET 4.0, including finally adding using ITable<T> for tables instead of Table<T>, which makes it much easier to test. Combine that with this open source tool that will create an IDataContext interface for you and you're on your way to testable LINQ to SQL. So no, LINQ to SQL is not dead!!

UppercuT - The Insanely Easy to Use Automated Build Framework

Tue, 19 May 2009 05:02:36 GMT

Automated Builds as easy as (1) solution name, (2) source control path, (3) company name for most projects!!! UppercuT is for developers who want a powerful build framework without a lot of set up work. UppercuT is for anyone who needs a standard way of building applications across an entire organization. UppercuT is for anyone who wants to concentrate on just writing code. What can UppercuT do for you? -Compiles your application -Versions the local code build -Runs your unit tests -Runs NCover -Runs NDepend (you will need a license - does not come with UppercuT) -Creates environment configuration files (using ENV.settings files and config.template files) - more on this later -Packages your application for deployment -Along the way, it can run custom tasks for you.

Open Source or Die - The Real Future of Graffiti?

Tue, 12 May 2009 10:16:02 GMT

Telligent's Graffiti hasn't quite flatlined yet, but the signs aren't looking too good. Could OSS be the way to breathe life back into this once-promising CMS platform?

Free T4 Editor for your ASP.NET MVC T4 Templates available

Fri, 08 May 2009 23:01:06 GMT

Found on tangible blog, that the new tangible T4 Editor 1.4 FREE EDITION now includes full Intelli-Sense support for MVC Host and related namespaces used in ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM T4 Templates. In addition it provides a nice highlighting for ASP.NET and T4 Code. Seems like anyone can now edit MVC T4 Templates with full comfort without investing a penny. Awesome!

Future of Business Intelligence and Databases

Mon, 11 May 2009 03:31:02 GMT

The term business intelligence (BI) was coined by Howard Dresner in the early 1990s. He defined Business Intelligence as "a set of concepts and methodologies to improve decision making in business through use of facts and fact-based systems." In a time when data warehousing was considered leading-edge he created the vision that led to the development of business intelligence, as it is known today. The once visionary BI is now commonplace and in near future a momentous transformation is about to take place. BI is all set to bring information democracy where end users across an organization will be able to view information related to their segment. Further, with the rising consumer expectations there will be demand for capability requirements of BI as well.

More ASP.NET MVC Best Practices

Wed, 06 May 2009 19:16:02 GMT

In this post, I'll share some of the best practices and guidelines which I have come across while developing ASP.NET MVC web applications. I will not cover all best practices that are available, instead add some specific things that have not been mentioned in any blog post out there. Existing best practices can be found on Kazi Manzur Rashid's blog and Simone Chiaretta's blog.

5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:46:07 GMT

Everyone knows that Phil Haack, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, and Scott Guthrie all provide good ASP.NET MVC content on their blogs. I wanted to provide a list of excellent resources on ASP.NET MVC that are a little less well known.

Kona: Continuous Integration and Better Unit Testing

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 11:01:02 GMT

In this screencast Rob Conery and Brad Wilson talk about continuous integration with TeamCity, Unit Testing with xUnit and TDD in general. "This screencast went from a simple idea - talking to Brad Wilson about better Unit Testing - to some pretty broad topics such as source control, unit testing, and continuous integration. I seriously could have written a whole book based on the stuff flying through my mind. I reigned it in a bit and decided to focus on two things that I don't think get enough press: writing a good Unit Test coupled with Continuous Integration."

ASP.NET MVC goes RTM before MIX09

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:46:04 GMT

Not sure if the release was intentional or just someone that forgot to set the timezone field while publishing the download, but ASP.NET MVC has been RTMed before MIX09.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 released

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:01:26 GMT

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RTM is released

Free ASP.NET MVC eBook Tutorial - ScottGu

Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:16:02 GMT

There has been a lot of excitement in the community about the new ASP.NET MVC framework that is about to ship (literally any day now - announcement coming soon). As with anything new, people are also asking for more tutorials/samples/documentation that cover how to get started and build applications with it. Over the last few months I've been helping to contribute to an ASP.NET MVC book that Scott Hanselman, Rob Conery, and Phil Haack have been writing for Wrox. The book is now in production, and will be available to buy in stores soon