One of the most important pieces of writing good software isn’t the software itself, but instead the documentation, samples, and evangelizing the software to the people who would use it. I’m starting now to ramp up on a few of these notions for my work related efforts. I’ll be posting some content here in relation... Continue reading →

Here I am working through some ADO.NET Entity Framework samples and I come to a standard situation, a Guid as a key. I generate the model and try to do inserts to no avail. I start digging and stumble upon a Stack Overflow answer to this problem. The answer states, Unfortunately, in v1 of the... Continue reading →

What is more preferred in a blog entry. Long and thought out blog post on a particular topic such as dependency injection or the enterprise application blocks. Short and concise, easy to read in one short sitting. Small sample code bits, without much write up. So what is it? Any suggestions or other options would... Continue reading →

Policy Injection (AOP Cross Cutting), Logging, Exception Handling, Security/Authentication, and more… Logging Exception Handling Authentication Authorization Audit Services (Web Services) Implementation Client Tier with either Web Forms or MVC Imagine all of this functionality rolled into a clear layer with well defined separation of concerns. Ok, stop imagining it and get it done, here’s how.... Continue reading →

I really don’t get the complexity Microsoft has put into their testing framework. The basic testing class that one gets looks like this. 1: using System; 2: using System.Text; 3: using System.Collections.Generic; 4: using System.Linq; 5: using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting; 6: 7: namespace PipServices.Tests 8: { 9: /// 10: /// Summary description for UnitTest1 11: … Continue reading →