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ServiceLocator and Unity – Be Careful

Chris Tavarez has provided a handy adapter ( UnityServiceLocator ) for using ServiceLocator to resolve types from a Unity container. You can then use ServiceLocator.SetLocatorProvider() to register the UnityServiceLocator as the default provider for ServiceLocator. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:00 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Tip: Entity Framework, Unity, and The ASP.NET RoleProvider – Read the MSDN Fine Print

A custom Role Provider is a very useful tool for adding custom authorization to your ASP.NET and/or ASP.NET MVC applications.  A common use for a custom Role Provider is when you have role information stored in a data store that differs from the Read More...
Posted Monday, May 11, 2009 2:28 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Testing Your Unity XML Configuration

When using Unity as your IoC container , one way to configure the container is to use an configuration section in your app.config or web.config file.  A simplified example of this configuration is shown below: 1: <? xml version ="1.0" Read More...
Posted Friday, April 03, 2009 6:02 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Unit Testing The MVC JsonResult

One of my favorite features of ASP.NET MVC is the support for JSON . In MVC, an Action Method in a Controller can return a JsonResult. This really comes in handy when integrating with jQuery to provide AJAX-like functionality in an application. In this Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:12 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 4 Comments
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The Plethora Of Prodigal Patterns

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" Albert Einstein With all of the software design patterns available to developers, I think that we sometimes lose focus of the pragmatic development approach: Write code that works. Don’t get me Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:30 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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25 Random Things About Me

There is a meme going around Facebook where everyone is writing 25 random things about themselves.  I thought I would share this on my blog as well.  So without further ado, here are some random facts about me:   1. I get really annoyed Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:49 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 0 Comments
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Are Software Developers Really Engineers?

A few co-workers and I lately have been having this conversation.  The following hypothetical argument illustrates the con of the argument: How can we be engineers if we can’t agree on what we’re building? Do engineers have conversations like this: Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 08, 2009 3:37 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 17 Comments
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Dynamic Expression Trees

I have been working on a project that uses the Entity Framework as the persistence store.  I am implementing a global search capability that returns results from the various entities that have a string property that start with a given query string.  Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 2:30 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.0.0.0 - Continued...

Last night I wrote a post about the Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions that I put out on CodePlex . I forgot to mention one of my favorite features that the library provides. I showed how you can use the library to write readable unit tests like the Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:29 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 1 Comments

Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.0.0.0

This is a personal hobby project that I have been working on recently. The code has been released on CodePlex and can be found here . The Visual Studio Testing Extensions is a library that exposes a set of extension methods to provide a way to write more Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:07 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 7 Comments

Provide Caching For Your Complex Functions

Function caching, or more specifically memoization , is a code optimization technique that can be used to speed up code that calls complex functions with the same inputs.  Let's take a look at the classic fibonacci function: 1: private int Fib( int Read More...
Posted Sunday, December 07, 2008 11:42 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Extending MVC: Auto Refreshing A Partial View Using AJAX

This is something that I put together in a few minutes to provide a way to refresh a partial view on a specified time interval. Let's create a MVC User Control that displays the current date and time called "TimeControl.ascx": 1: <%@ Control Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 2:50 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Extending MVC: Returning an Image from a Controller Action

So I was thinking tonight, what if I want my MVC application to serve images that are stored in a SQL database as binary data? Or files that are stored in the database?   One of the things that I really like about MVC is that ability to add Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:54 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 13 Comments
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Autocompletion Textbox in MVC Using jQuery

Ok, I have to admit it: jQuery is awesome. If you haven't started looking at it, I highly recommend that you do. It works wonders in the ASP.NET MVC world. One of the best things about jQuery is the enormous number of plug-ins that are available for adding Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008 12:11 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 15 Comments
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CheckBoxList Helper for MVC

The early previews of the MVC Toolkit contained a few helpers that are not available in the current MVC Beta and MVC Beta Futures .  On of the ones that was nixed was the CheckBoxList helper.  I was in need of this type of functionality lately Read More...
Posted Monday, November 10, 2008 9:16 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 14 Comments
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