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Fluent NHibernate Solution to enable SchemaExport to create HiLo colum

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:40:26 GMT

I spent a few hours recently trying to figure out why Fluent NHibernate (FNH) wasn't doing what I thought it should be doing when using the HiLo generator conventions and then using the SchemaExport tool to generate my schema. After eventually looking at the hbm files that FNH was producing for a possible error and to make sure that I was using FNH correctly, I realised that FNH wasn't the problem, and that the problem lies within SchemaExport. I have created a solution ... for FNH shown below.

IQueryable Can Kill Your Dog, Steal Your Wife, Kill Your Will To Live,

Wed, 12 May 2010 19:30:52 GMT

If you take a quick detour over to StackOverflow, you'll realize very, very quickly that, when it comes to wholly and full-heartedly screwing up your Linq to SQL statements, the screw-up almost always involves a misunderstanding of the purpose and...

Tests are not Second-Class Citizens

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:05:50 GMT

Describing some of the mistakes that can be made when attempting Continuous Integration.

Cartoon. Tetris development

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:45:01 GMT

Next comic strip about programmers' fail. Guess what's wrong before reading the notes?

Rounded Corners with the Cornerz jQuery plugin

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:00:00 GMT

I found a useful plugin to create rounded corners with ease. The output looked consistent in most of the latest browsers I tested it on. Here's a post introducing you to the plugin

Composition versus Inheritance

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:45:00 GMT

Discusses the benefit of Composition versus Inheritance. Touches on IoC Containers and how they can help you achieve more granular bits of code that make your applications more flexible and easier to maintain.

Context and Best Practices

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:15:01 GMT

The Right Way versus the Better Way; Default Architectures; Starting Small

IE8 And Web Standards

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Earlier this year, Microsoft submitted 7200 CSS 2.1 test cases to the W3C, as a mature approach to move the web forward and help solving ambiguities, options and misinterpretations in any specification. In this post you will get a sense of how these tests work and how IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome are passing these tests. You will also find a demo of Expression Web SuperPreview and some very positive feedback from the Mozilla team.

Use Google's Closure Compiler in C#

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:00 GMT

A very simple and small C# class for utilizing the Google Closure Compiler API for minifying JavaScript.

hornget - apt-get for .Net OSS

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:00:01 GMT

Hornget provides an apt-get like service for common .Net Open Source projects. Want the latest NHibernate, Castle ActiveRecord, Rhino Commons but don't want to go through the headache of the numerous build processes and dependencies? Hornget supplies a daily a build of a number of OSS projects trunks as a downloadable Zip to ease upgrading to the latest versions

Selective Unit Testing - Costs and Benefits

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:30:00 GMT

Test Driven Development is widely regarded as a hallmark technique of professional software development, but should you really do it all the time? Steve Sanderson argues that unit tests yield significant practical business value only for certain kinds of code. This blog post suggests what might be the underlying forces that determine whether unit tests will justify the long-term expense of creating and maintaining them. These ideas are then applied to structuring an ASP.NET MVC application.

Is Silverlight the new WebForms?

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:30:01 GMT

Is Silverlight becoming the same crutch that WebForms was nearly a decade ago?

Enterprise Product: $50,000 and 8 months - You must be kidding!

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Nick Beaugeard (Founde , HubOne) describes how the built a Certified, Enterprise ready application in 8 months and with a budget of only $50,000. The solution is written purely in .Net and thanks to the Microsoft Bizspark program, they took advantage of Visual Sudio Team System 2008 to help manage the process. This is a description of development process rather than necessarily the technologies applied, but should be of interest to anyone writing commercial software.

The Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:45:00 GMT

What happens when you get a few web developers who like puzzles together? Check out Jeff Blankenburg's post on the Toughest Developer Puzzle Ever, and rise to the challenge!

Pulling others up

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:45:00 GMT

What should you do when you're in a situation where the people you're working with aren't using the latest and greatest technology and might not be using the so-called "best practices" that you subscribe to?

Throw Exceptions In Your Domain

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:36:55 GMT

If you have a Domain Model, you're going to have code that validates rules and checks for inconsistencies ... start with the simplest way of handling business logic errors: throw an exception.

Learning new Programmming Languages and Technologies

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Recently, I've read article after article about how part of being a good software developer is about being open to new technologies, and to "learn new things" - and I'd be foolish not to agree. However...

Should We Return Null From Our Methods?

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:15:06 GMT

I read a interesting article recently about the potential perils of Null Check Hell. The author's suggestion? Stop allowing any of your methods to return nulls, ever . No nulls returned, no null checks necessary. Problem solved, right?

My Dot Net Developer's tools list, and more.

Wed, 27 May 2009 02:00:01 GMT

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some non-development tools that are a part of my day to day life and make things easier. Here's the complete list:

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!

Regex Hero to the Rescue

Fri, 01 May 2009 04:16:14 GMT

From BucketSoft comes an online Silverlight regular expression tool utilizing the .NET regular expression engine. Features instantaneous highlighting of regular expression matches. It's a great way to test iterations of your .NET regular expressions quickly.

Top 10 .NET Twitterers

Sat, 02 May 2009 11:46:11 GMT

If your not on Twitter you are missing out - here are some .NET tweeps to get you started.

Singletons vs. Static Classes

Fri, 01 May 2009 08:01:02 GMT

My last "versus" post seemed to elicit a good number of interesting responses. Today, I'm musing about Singletons vs. Static Classes -- two constructs which appear to accomplish the same task. Or do they?

Just say No! to C# Regions

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:01:02 GMT

You need a language construct so that your IDE can help you hide your big messy code block from you (because it's just so hideous, you don't even want to look at it anymore)?

Ten C# Keywords That You Shouldn't Be Using

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:31:03 GMT

Overview of some not-so-common keywords and reasons to avoid them...or understand what the implications are if we use them.