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Setting Up Fluent NHibernate for your project

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:15:00 GMT

Taking a look at how to use setup and configure Fluent NHibernate for usage. We will focus on how to setup your database settings as well as how to get your Fluent NHibernate mappings registered into the system.

DiffPlex - a .NET Diff Generator

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:15:00 GMT

DiffPlex is a combination of a .NET Diffing Library with both a Silverlight and HTML diff viewer. It is released open source on CodePlex under the MS-PL license.

60+ .Net libraries every developer should know about

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:45:03 GMT

Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I've found some of these libraries invaluable, so I'm sharing them for some of the other dev's out there with a brief outline of how to use.

A deeper look into AutoMapper: Custom Type Resolvers

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:01:31 GMT

AutoMapper is a framework which uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. In this episode we are going to learn how to use type resolvers. Type resolvers allow you to perform custom value mapping in a very simple and elegant way with very little code

CodePlex adds Mercurial support

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:15:06 GMT

Microsoft's open source project hosting site announces the addition of Mercurial to its supported source control systems.

Mini SQL Query RC1 Released

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:51:49 GMT

Mini SQL Query - the open source SQL editor for any ADO.NET provider - has been uploaded today, RC1... Lots of goodies including the new generic schema engine and text templating including access to the data.

NBuilder website launched - Rapid generation of test objects for .NET

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:23:07 GMT

NBuilder now has a website which will serve as the home for all its documentation. http://nbuilder.org About NBuilder - Through a fluent, extensible interface, NBuilder allows you to rapidly create test data, automatically assigning values to properties and public fields that are of type of the built in .NET data types (e.g. ints and strings). NBuilder allows you to override for properties you are interested in using lambda expressions. Example usage: Builder<Product> .CreateListOfSize(10) .WhereTheFirst(2) .Have(x => x.Title = "special title") .And(x => x.Price = 15.24m) .Build(); NBuilder is an open source project, hosted on google code.

NBuilder - fluent, rapid generation of test objects

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:34:16 GMT

Through a fluent, extensible interface, NBuilder allows you to rapidly create test data, automatically assigning values to properties and public fields that are of type of the built in .NET data types (int, string etc). NBuilder allows you to override for properties you are interested in using lambda expressions. Builder<Product>.CreateListOfSize(10) .WhereRandom(5) .Have(x => x.Price = 12.51m) .Persist();

Scott Guthrie's links for May 30th

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:30:00 GMT

More of Scott Guthrie's links: May 30th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio.

SubMain acquires GhostDoc

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:45:03 GMT

An agreement between SubMain and Roland Weigelt, author of GhostDoc, will place future development of GhostDoc in the hands of SubMain. GhostDoc ( http://submain.com/ghostdoc ) is the popular XML Comments and documentation helper tool which SubMain will continue to maintain as a free product.

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.

Castle Windsor 2.0 RTM Released!

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:46:04 GMT

Some would say that it is about time, I would agree. Windsor might not be the OSS project in pre release state for the longest time (I think that the honor belong to Hurd), but it spent enough time at that state to at least deserve a honorary mention. f you will look, you won't find Windsor 1.0, only release candidates for 1.0. As I believe I mentioned, Windsor has been production ready for a long time, and for the full release we decided to skip the 1.0 designator, which doesn't really fit, and go directly to 2.0

nAnt: Getting your machine ready

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:53:30 GMT

Part 1 of many steps to use to setup Visual Studio for use with nAnt. Covering Intellisense and setting up file extension support for the nant build files in visual studio.

WPF Apps With The Model-View-ViewModel Design Pattern

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:03 GMT

A nice article on the MVVM pattern for WPF.

ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:01:18 GMT

Finally Scott Guthrie announced ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC. Check it out.

ALT.NET Podcast Episode 15: Domain Driven Design

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:31:03 GMT

Talking with Rob Conery and James Avery about Domain Driven Design.

StructureMap 2.5.2 is Released

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:31:09 GMT

A fresh release of popular DI framework for .NET.

ScottGu: ASP.NET MVC Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:46:03 GMT

One of ScottGu´s monster blogposts

ASP.NET MVC Generator - First Cut

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:00:24 GMT

A simple Rails like code generator for ASP.NET MVC sites.

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Silverlight 2 Released

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:16:25 GMT

Today we shipped the final release of Silverlight 2. You can download Silverlight 2, as well the Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Blend 2 tool support to target it,

Separating Concerns within Windows Applications

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:15:41 GMT

When coding, the Separation of Concerns (SoC) is a principal that basically will help organise your applications and make them more manageable. Dependency Injection (DI) typically goes hand in hand with SoC. I thought I would take a look at how to apply "SoC" and "DI" to a windows application...

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

How To Become a Development Team Leader

Thu, 15 May 2008 02:01:02 GMT

Moving from being a developer to leading a team of developers is the ambition of many - and it's easier than you might think to achieve. In fact, there is only one thing you need to do.

ASP.NET MVC Source Refresh Preview

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:01:02 GMT

ScottGus Blogpost to the new MVC drop on Codeplex