Tired Of Working With Big Visual Studio Solutions?

davybrion.com — a simple trick to make working with big Visual Studio solutions much more bearable read more...

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Genesis: Bridging The Gap Between Requirements And Code

davybrion.com — About the Genesis methodology and toolkit for software developers, that links unit tests to requirements in the functional analysis document... read more...

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.NET Memory Management

davybrion.com — Garbage Collection sure is great, isn’t it? We don’t have to keep track of all the memory we’ve allocated and we don’t need to release that memory when it’s no longer needed. Because that is after all what the Garbage Collector does for us, without us having to worry about it. This is actually a widespread misconception among many .NET developers. It’s true that Garbage Collection makes memory management a lot easier, but we simply can’t rely on it all the time. There are most certainly some things you must always keep in mind when it comes to memory management in .NET. read more...

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Link blogs… do yourself a favor

davybrion.com — I’m currently subscribed to 110 feeds and everyday the number of unread posts is going up. It seems like i just can’t catch up anymore. Of all those unread posts, a lot will be very interesting, but there will also be quite a few that won’t interest me that much. So i’m going to cut back on the number of feeds i’m subscribed to, and i’m going to rely on some fantastic links blogs to point me to the best posts. read more...

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Automated KnownType management in WCF

davybrion.com — In this post i discuss a class which allows you to easily register base types with their derived Known Types for WCF service methods. This technique makes it a lot easier to deal with many KnownTypes in WCF. read more...

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NHibernate: Testing The Performance Urban Legend

iamnotmyself.com — I wanted to challenge the dogmatic urban legend passed down from .NET developer to .NET developer since the classic ASP days. That dogma simply states you should always access your database via stored procedure for "performance reasons". Inline SQL is BAAAAAAD. So I fired up Visual Studio, created a class and started writing tests. read more...

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How To Write Testable ASP.NET WebForms

davybrion.com — Microsoft’s upcoming ASP.NET MCV framework makes it easy to write tests for your application layer logic. But what about those of us who are stuck with ASP.NET WebForms? You can still write highly testable ASP.NET WebForms with only a little bit of extra effort. But that extra effort really pays off in the long run. In this post, i’ll give a detailed description of one approach that has worked for me really well. read more...

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Conditional Queueing Of Statements

davybrion.com — Shows a technique to implement conditional queueing of blocks of code depending on either a default condition, or a condition per block of code. read more...

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