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nvents 0.6 now runs on .NET 3.5 and 4.0

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 15:20:52 GMT

The latest version of nvents (an open source library for strongly typed publishing/subscribing of events over the network) adds support for .NET 3.5 in addition to .NET 4.0

Performance improvements and inheritance support in nvents 0.4

Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:56:13 GMT

Prior to version 0.4 nvents searched for subscribers and opened the connection to each server on every publish. Nvents 0.4 keeps the connections open and sends the publish event to known subscribers before searching for more subscribers. This, of course, dramatically increases the performance.

AOP in C#? Over Anders Hejlsberg's Dead Body!

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:49:32 GMT

Gael Fraiteur respectfully demystifies the untruths spread by Anders Hejlsberg during PDC 10 about aspect-oriented programming .

Encryption, handlers and filters in nvents 0.3

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:26:33 GMT

nvents (.NET events across the network) version 0.3 adds support for encryption, event handlers and filtering

LABjs & RequireJS: Loading JavaScript Resources the Fun Way

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:46:57 GMT

avaScript resource loading has many different concerns that bear on how it is approached. An increasing number of sites and applications are relying on complex systems of JavaScript resources and many developers are hoping for easier, faster and more maintainable patterns for dependency management. The authors of two open source projects, LABjs and RequireJS, discuss some different perspectives that accomplish those goals.

nvents - .NET events across the network

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:37:00 GMT

Open source library for strongly typed publishing/subscribing of events. Events.Subscribe<FooEvent>(e => ..), Events.Publish(new FooEvent()).

What Really Makes a Good Programmer?

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:30:52 GMT

I wrote this survey and could really use some responses from the community. Feel free to stop by and take the survey. I'm publishing results soon.

Timing The Execution Time Of Your MVC Actions - Nick Berardi's Coder J

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:30:52 GMT

Awesome approach for timing MVC Actions

Mobilize! Adapting the ASP.NET MVC Project Template for jQuery Mobile

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:52 GMT

Without modifying any server side code and only tweaking the views I found I was able to create a fully jquery-mobilified version of the ASP.NET MVC project template. This is how I did it.

ASP.NET MVC 2 Localization complete guide

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:45:05 GMT

This is a full guide for localizing asp.net mvc 2 web application covering following aspects: views localization, simple culture switching mechanism, model validation messages localization, DisplayName attribute localization and problem solving with caching(OutputCache) and localization.

Executing lambdas on transaction commit - or Transactional delegates

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:19:10 GMT

One great thing with the TransactionScope class is that it makes it possible to include multiple levels in your object hierarchy. Except delegates. This post makes lambda delegates participate in a transaction scope and execute on Commit.

NHibernate Event Listener Registration With Fluent NHibernate

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:12:36 GMT

I'm a huge fan of NHibernate. It has excellent documentation and just makes the whole job of getting things into and out of the database much more enjoyable. There is a whole series of posts on NHibernate from one of the committers, Ayende. When Fluent NHibernate (FNH) came out, it was like butter on sliced bread. FNH makes it even easier to use NHibernate. Ayende had a post a while back on how to use Event Listeners. That helped me to ...

Pass Number 1: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET « Rob Conery

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

Rob is looking for feedback

It's Time for This: ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT

Rob Conery speaks about his idea for implementing an ActiveRecordEngine for ASP.NET MVC. Kind of like how Rails does it, but more loosely coupled.

CQRS à la Greg Young

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:25 GMT

Greg has taken Domain-Driven Design from how Eric Evans describes it in his book and has adapted mostly the technical implementation of it. Command Query Separation (CQS) was originally thought of by Bertrand Meyer and is applied at object level Bertrand defines CQS as: every method should either be a command that performs an action, or a query that returns data to the caller, but not both. In other words, asking a question should not change the answer. Greg however takes this same principle but he applies it to the whole architecture of a system, clearly separating the write side (Commands) from the read side (Queries) of the system.

Using Test Impact Analysis in Visual Studio 2010

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:41:11 GMT

How to use Test impact analysis in visual studio 2010

Localize ASP.NET MVC 2 DataAnnotations validation messages

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:30:01 GMT

Living in a country where there are there are three languages being used, almost every application you work on requires some form of localization. In an earlier blog post, I already mentioned ASP.NET MVC 2's DataAnnotations support for doing model validation. Ever since, I was wondering if it would be possible to use resource files or something to do localization of error messages. Here's how!

Getting Started With NServiceBus: Part 1 Unicast Messaging

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:51:17 GMT

A simple walkthrough on how to implement simple unicast messaging using NServiceBus in a self hosted service.

WCF 101: The Simplest WCF Example You'll Ever See

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:01:24 GMT

Every once in a while, I'll encounter a developer that thinks that WCF is too complicated to use. Whereas in fact, the basics of WCF are incredibly simple. MSDN's tutorial hides this fact by making their introduction to WCF a fairly long and painful 6-step process, but you need much less to write your first WCF application. In fact, you don't need Visual Studio and you don't even need svcutil. All you need is notepad, and an install of .NET 3.0.

Using ASP.NET and Jcrop to crop images online

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:58:14 GMT

Cropping images in ASP.NET is easy task to do if you use right tools. In this posting I will introduce how to crop images using Jcrop and System.Drawing namespace classes. What we are building is simple and user-friendly image cropping interface that also demonstrates some simple features of Jcrop. Believe me, your users will love it!

Hello Tekpub

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Rob Conery introduces his new venture into tutorial screencasts for .NET and associated technologies. He provides some background detail to his decision to start the venture with James Avery and his aims for it's future.

A tour of existing MVVM frameworks

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:01:06 GMT

In this article, I make a tour of existing MVVM frameworks. For each frameworks, features, silverlight support and links are detailled.

Reactive Framework (Rx) - first look

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:18:05 GMT

This article introduces the Reactive Framework with its basic ideas and LINQ to Events. Furthermore it takes a look at the advantages and use cases, where Rx could play an important role. Finally, it concludes with a bottom line and the question, in which scenarios you get benefits from Rx.

Entity Framework Code-Only best practices

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:59:16 GMT

There have been lots of posts on the EFDesign blog talking about how the features in Code Only have evolved. But very little covering what we think will be the best way to write the code. The recommended way to do this is to create classes that derive from EntityConfiguration<TEntity> and put the configuration logic in the constructor.

MVVM for Tarded Folks Like Me

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:45:00 GMT

MVVM for 'tards, not dummies.