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I would like to thank all who attended WIN406 – Dependency Injection with Enterprise Library 4.1 . I hope your time in the session was worth the investment. If I’ve been successful, you already downloaded Unity and can’t wait to use it on your current
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The P&P team just release a bunch of changes on EntLib 4 and Unity. Finally, PIAB is now integrated with Unity! Check out at: Enterprise Library 4.1 - October 2008 Unity Application Block 1.2 - October 2008 Soon, I’ll try to post some impressions
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Unity is out. Check out the official release page at msdn . I'm testing the final bits and in the next few days I'll post my thoughts about it... stay tuned!
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Finally, the so expected EntLib Dependency Injection implementation is out . Dependency Injection is, IMHO, the most important design pattern on extensible software design. But unfortunately, Enterprise Library previously lacked the support of a lightweight
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Something I normally get annoyed when reviewing others code is when I have to scroll horizontally. Even when activating "Wrap", code doesn't look "sharp" and clear. A not well known feature of Visual Studio (2002/3/5/8) is the ability to add a Guide Line
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The VS Core team developed a great power toy for Visual Studio that provides a tree view of C#/VB.NET source code. Source Code Outliner is available at Codeplex . Give a look...
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Sometimes, it would be useful to debug some code, which we have no source. For example, when we are using an external library or framework, like WCF, or a ado provider, and we want to trap a suspect behaviour. Today, for example, I needed to debug a strange
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Migrating a .text 0.94/95 blog to CS was more easy than I thought, thanks to Metablog API. I only migrated posts, and didn't care about trackbacks or comments. Simple, efficient, and no pain. For those wanting to do the same, here's the code. It will
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Generics are one of my favourite features from .Net 2.0. While migrating some of my existing code to use generics and boost some performance and benefit from type safety, I found parts of my code which are exposed to COM components, and need to sustain
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Lately in a forum, someone asked for a simple mapper between objects from different domains (ex: Service Data Contract & Internal Types). Here's a simple way of do it, just as simple as using serialization. We serialize the source domain object, handle
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Here's a very small example of a memory leak in managed code. Today I found something similar navigating inside a library I consume. The problem is really simple: you subscribe an event on a long duration object. In this case, a singleton one. So, if
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If you work with some database providers like Informix, DB2 or Oracle, you might need support to XA Transactions to achieve interaction with their Trx resource manager. After WinXp SP2 and Win2003 SP1, this is not enabled by default. To activate it through
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