I was adding dependency injection to an existing project and opted to use Unity configured via the application configuration file. As I was running through the configuration, I hit a type that required a database connection which it took in as an IDbConnection...

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When you create a document-level customisation for Office using VSTO, the customisation is compiled into a .NET assembly and the location of this assembly is stored in a custom document property called _AssemblyLocation. When loading the document, Office...

Here at the ADC Team we are constantly listening to our customers and trying to offer better ways to meet their needs. As part of this continuing improvement, we're just about to pilot a new offering known as “SoundBytes”. SoundBytes are short, focused...

"Great logging, terrible name" Long time readers of this blog are probably aware that I'm a big fan of logging and instrumentation. The keen eyed of you may have even spotted the subject of this post in my recent post Xaml for config . The clue was the...

Hello James who are you? I'm James Snape . I joined the team nearly three years ago but have been in the industry for 14 years now. Before Microsoft, I worked as a PM/Architect at Exony and as a Research and Development Engineer at Sony Broadcast...

At Microsoft we are working hard in putting together the different components that are involved deciding the architecture approach. One of these components is the architecture frame, which together with the architecture style and application type creates...

This article follows on from part 1 , so make sure you know how far we got. Basically we can generate a project according to our required template, so next we want to be able to add a new View-Presenter enabled Web Page to the project. We’ll do this...

Using a setup project in Visual Studio is a nice and easy way of creating a deployment solution for your application. In some cases, built-in features such as file copy, GAC registration and registry modification are good enough but there are cases where...

I’m sure I’ve warned you before – I’m a big believer in Software Factories… but I’ve been quiet about this for a while now. That’s because I’ve been waiting for the ‘next big thing’… enter stage left: “Blueprints”! I had the pleasure of attending a...