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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

SubControllers in ASP.NET MVC

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:41:49 GMT

I should have known something was up when I caught Jeffrey Palermo browsing the ASP.NET MVC Preview 5 source.

Subversion Support Comes to CodePlex. Sorta'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A little publicized feature lets you use Subversion to access project hosted on CodePlex - without the need to run SvnBridge locally!

Four Ways to Test Expected Exceptions

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 08:39:00 GMT

For new applications, I recommend you set aside ExpectedException and use either Assert.Throws or Throws.Exception. That way, what you are testing is clearly stated right in the code, for everyone to see.

Partitioning an ASP.NET MVC application into separate "Areas"

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:31:10 GMT

A missing feature of ASP.NET MVC: separating controllers in different areas and namespaces.

The Onion Architecture : part 2

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:50:43 GMT

If you are looking for a full, working application as an example, please have a look.

Diving Deeper into Ninject -- Contextual Binding

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:01:18 GMT

Short screencasts about diving deeper into Ninject with Contextual Binding.

The Onion Architecture

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:16:08 GMT

The fundamental rule is that all code can depend on layers more central, but code cannot depend on layers further out from the core. This architecture is unashamedly biased toward object-oriented programming, and it puts objects before all others.

Setting up a Project in Subversion (Svn)

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:31:02 GMT

Short screencasts on how to set up a Project in Subversion (Svn).

Specification Pattern and Lambdas

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:46:03 GMT

While working on my current project I decided that I had a need to use the Specification Pattern . After finding a clean implementation by Jeff Perrin I set to work creating the specifications that I needed. I quickly realized that we were going to end up having a ton of specifications and sometimes they would only apply to very special cases. Other times they would be very broad cases and they needed to be even more composable than even the fluid interface implemented in Jeff's implementation wasn't going to be enough. It after all still required me to create a concrete implementation for each specification, no matter how minuscule it might be. This is the part where I thought to my self that since i was really only creating implementations for a single method that I could just write a LambdaSpecification and be able to use this for all the special cases I had.

Phil Haack: Unit Test Boundaries

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:31:09 GMT

One principle to follow when writing a unit test is that a unit test should ideally not cross boundaries.

Introduction on how to use Reflector

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:01:03 GMT

In this episode we will walk you though how to use the .Net tool Reflector. Reflector is the class browser, explorer, analyzer and documentation viewer for .NET. Reflector allows to easily view, navigate, search, decompile and analyze .NET assemblies in C#, Visual Basic and IL.

Summer of NHibernate Screencast Series

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:54:28 GMT

A collection of screencasts demonstrating and teaching NHibernate, the ORM. Non linkjacked.

Linq to NHibernate in 10 minutes

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:53:16 GMT

If you are curious about Linq to NHibernate and want to quickly check it out, here is an easy way to do it.

Functional C#

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:52:10 GMT

This is a set of libraries to demonstrate functional programming aspects as implemented in C#. This is not to imply that C# is a functional language, but can implement some of the aspects of it. This project is to demonstrate some of those techniques

Dynamically Composing Expression Predicates

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:51:22 GMT

Of all the things that will drive you to manually constructing expression trees, the need for dynamic predicates is the most common in a typical business application. Fortunately, it's possible to write a set of simple and reusable extension methods that radically simplify this task. This is the role of our PredicateBuilder class.

Is Managed Code Slower Than Unmanaged Code?

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:46:02 GMT

Ask anyone the question above and they will say that managed is slower than unmanaged code. Are they right? No they are not. The problem is that when most people think of .NET they think of other frameworks with a runtime, like Java or Visual Basic; or they may even think about interpreters. They do not think about applications, or what they do; they do not think about limiting factors like network or disk access; in short, they do not think.

Deep Fried DDD

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:31:01 GMT

Dave Laribee joins the Deep Fried Bytes guys for a DDD discussion in episode 6.

ALT.NET Podcast 8 - EF Vote of No Confidence (part 2 of Episode 7)

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:31:06 GMT

In this episode Jeremy Miller and Ward Bell (from IdeaBlade) discuss the Vote of No Confidence on Microsoft's Entity Framework and what it means for the Alt.NET and .NET communities

ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 available

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:31:02 GMT

I'm very happy to announce that the first preview for the new Ajax features in ASP.NET just went live. Thanks to everyone who made that happen and thanks to all of you for providing feedback on the Roadmap. This preview contains preview implementations for the following features: Client-side template rendering Declarative instantiation of behaviors and controls DataView control Markup extensions Bindings

Learning To Drive a Stick Shift

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:01:03 GMT

Ruby. Java. C#. VB.NET. And yes, even Haskell. Whatever you program in: C++ will make you better at it.

Ward's Wiki

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:15:26 GMT

The original wiki with a ton of software design and methodology related information. Non linkjacked.

LINQ & Lambda, Part 4: Lucene.Net

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:46:10 GMT

This post demonstrates how to easily build a Lucene.Net search index from your LINQ to SQL data context and search for items within it using the LINQ to Lucene library.

StructureMap: Medium-level Usage Scenarios

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:36:15 GMT

Profiles, Registries and more with StructureMap