DotNetKicks.com - Stories tagged with Architecture

Resolving Binary References in MSBuild

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:38:35 GMT

Great article on solving a problem many of us have had using MSBuild.

ALT.Net LiveMeeting Records

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:20:33 GMT

Below are the two LiveMeeting recording links. For some reason it still requires a name to be entered. I have removed the requirement for the recording key. DM on twitter if you have any issues.

Doppelgänger Datacontract - WCF Gotcha

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:50:41 GMT

It seems that the Doppelgänger has found it's way into your WCF datacontracts to haunt you with obscure errors and difficult debugging. Don't worry it is quite easy to get rid of your Doppelgänger problems. So let me start by first defining the problem.

Emergent Complexity

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:31:04 GMT

Why is it that our well designed systems seem to fall into chaos so easily?

First Steps with MEF

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:00:26 GMT

Hello MEF! - discover plugins with mef (inside the assembly) and through a dictionary.

Creating Streamlined, Simplified, yet Scalable WCF Connectivity

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:48:45 GMT

"One of the most awesome things about WCF is that the concepts scale extremely well. If you understand the ABCs of WCF, then you can do anything from creating a simple Hello World to a complex sales processing service. It's all based on having an address, a binding, and a contract. All the other concepts like behaviors, validators, and service factories are simply supplemental to the core of the system. When you understand the basics, you have the general essence of all of WCF."

Austin Tech Book Club starting this week.

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:23:33 GMT

The Austin Tech Book Club will be discussing the book Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#. We will be meeting every other Thursday at 11:30, starting November 20.

Implementing the MVCA Pattern - The Controller

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:10:51 GMT

Part 4 of the series of entries on implementing a true MVC pattern that uses an Adapter to interface with the underlying display framework.

The fallacy of IRepository

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:55:53 GMT

The cause for this post is a post by Rob Conery where he suggests removing the RDMBS from the equation, at least during development. In particular, he suggests using an OODB during development and switching to RDBMS late in the game, when going to production. The reason for doing so in order to reduce the friction of having to maintain a database during development.

Using Lucene .Net to index and search website content

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:48:17 GMT

An elegant solution for adding content indexing and search in a .Net application.

The Decline and Fall of Agile

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:16:57 GMT

It's odd to talk about the decline and fall of the agile movement, especially now that it's so popular, but I actually think the agile movement has been in decline for several years now.

Applying Quality Attributes to your application

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:56:56 GMT

Quality Attributes

IIS7 Request Routing and Load Balancer Release Candidate Available for

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:17:31 GMT

I'm excited to announce that IIS has released a Release Candidate of the new IIS7 Application Request Routing (ARR) extension! ARR enables Web server administrators to easily scale-out Web applications and improve reliability through HTTP-level, rule-based routing and load balancing.

Reducing the Cost of Change

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:59:09 GMT

A philisophical comment on how the biggest hurdle to reducing the cost of change in software is treating change as costly.

HTML is Crap

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:33:46 GMT

HTML is crap for writing applications.

Cloud Computing (and Azure) - Right for your site?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:16:02 GMT

A quick overview of cloud computing options and benefits from a web hosting standpoint.

Dependency injection with Castle Windsor: Video

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:42:07 GMT

Here's the video from the talk on dependency injection with Castle Windsor that Mike Hadlow and Gojko Adzic did last month at Skills Matter.

The Data Hive

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:21:50 GMT

The future of scaling data, creating a Data Hive. When you need to do logging, or write reports, have the data cache out to the rdbms, instead of the other way around.

Frictionless Continuous Integration

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 13:50:02 GMT

Getting a continuous integration server up and running is very easy now.

EntitySpaces 2009 Video Preview

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:46:02 GMT

We have created a video preview of our EntitySpaces 2009 Plugin for Visual Studio. The video is approximately 6 meg in size so give it a moment to get started. The video has sound and you might need to adjust your volume. We hope that you enjoy this video. It really gives you a feel for what it's going to be like to use EntitySpaces 2009, and it's really nice never having to leave Visual Studio.

How to design your data connectivity strategy

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:20:01 GMT

Pull an existing persistence tool off the shelf, make sure you understand it, and code, code, code! Persistence coding is a commodity in this day and age, so just use and existing tool and get on with your project. I'll repeat this little gem one last time, if you're writing ADO.Net code by hand, you're stealing from your employer or client.

Hitchhikers Guide To ALT.NET

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 11:25:40 GMT

Chris R. Chapman presented a short guide about what is the ALT.NET movement

Create your own light weight IOC container in .NET

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:20:28 GMT

There are lots of very good IOC container out there like Spring.Net and Castle Windsor, however the size of those frameworks makes me nervous specially when I have a small project and I do not need all those bells and whistles that comes with those frameworks. Following post will show you how to create and use simple IOC container.

Is WCF the Death of .NET?

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:12:17 GMT

I had the good fortune to attend the PDC pre-conference and was able to attend a day-long WCF session with Juval Lowy and Ron Jacobs. Juval went first and spoke for most of the day. Juval has been working closely with Microsoft for quite some time, and his COM(+) roots were showing big time. Essentially, Juval is of the opinion that WCF is a .NET killer and should be the way ALL applications are written from here on it. As Juval has extensive expertise with COM, I think he tends to see everything in terms of that model, and he may have a point. As a result, he made the bold statement in the pre-conf session of referring to WCF as a .NET killer. While I'm not prepared to follow Juval in claiming .NET dead at the hands of WCF, he makes some good points. If you think of the communication between objects in a system analogous to the communication of services in an architecture, WCF provides some cool abilities that the traditional model in .NET does not.

Creating a REST WCF Service From an Existing XSD Schema

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:56:23 GMT

A reader of this blog sent me an email asking the following question: "I have an XSD that I am required to use to export my company's data. How can I use that XSD and return data to them in a web method? I should be able to return a data set with the information formatted the way the XSD defines but I have no idea how to do that. Any ideas would save me a ton of time and grief!" Turns out this is a really good question, and I think one a lot of developers struggle with primarily because the majority of developers are scared of XSD schemas. Hopefully I can change that. An XML Schema is really simple and it is your friend.