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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:07 AM

Castle ActiveRecord

Lately, I’ve been playing around with Castle ActiveRecord tolearn about this particular technology. For those of you who are unaware, Castle ActiveRecord is an open sourceimplementation of the ActiveRecord pattern written in .NET and built onNHibernate.
Posted by mikechr | 3 Comments
Tuesday, November 28, 2006 2:12 AM

Writing a simple managed control under IE

Most web developers are aware of various "controls" and "applets" that can be "hosted" by "Internet Explorer" (hmm, not sure why I quoted that last thing, I guess I was on a "roll".) This code is compiled code that runs within the IE process and draws
Posted by mikechr | 10 Comments
Tuesday, May 30, 2006 4:18 PM

More about type descriptors

The other day, one of my readers posed a question regarding my recent post “ Data Binding to Custom Objects ” – The question was essentially “Why are you writing all this code? There’s much simpler ways to do the same thing.” Well, the reader is correct.
Posted by mikechr | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 17, 2006 11:18 PM

Data Binding to Custom Objects

I’m back! I apologize for my lack of recent blogging, but this post should help make up for that. We’ll be discussing data binding to custom collection objects. After reading my blog on building your own data bound controls , you’ll know that I like to
Posted by mikechr | 7 Comments
Friday, April 28, 2006 1:32 AM

My thoughts on Monad, the new Windows command line shell

Today I decided to install Monad, the new command shell for Windows and I gotta say - this thing is awesome! It's pretty much the most confusing shell I've ever seen, but it combined everything I like from DOS, Bash, Amiga, and the Visual Studio "immediate
Posted by mikechr | 2 Comments
Wednesday, April 26, 2006 1:24 AM

Templates - Part 2

In my last article, we talked about writing custom web controls that could render UI based on a template. Controls are able to parse properties between their opening and closing tags. These properties can set various public attributes of the control itself
Posted by mikechr | 4 Comments
Monday, April 10, 2006 2:48 PM

Templates - Part 1

ASP.NET is, to perhaps oversimplify things, a template parser at heart. An HTTP Handler (anything that implements IHTTPHandler) can be configured to process HTTP web requests and render results for those requests back to the socket. This inferface is
Posted by mikechr | 2 Comments
Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:53 PM

Too many tiers? Writing efficient multi-tier web applications.

A while ago, we were all convinced that dividing our applications up into multiple tiers was the way to go. This was great because it allowed you to scale up the parts of your application that might represent a bottleneck, and have more control over what
Posted by mikechr | 11 Comments
Monday, April 03, 2006 6:16 PM

My initial thoughts on "Indigo" (Windows Communication Foundation)

Recently, I took an extensive in-depth course on Indigo, Microsoft’s new platform for allowing applications to talk to each other easier. I’ve decided to write a blog on this topic, sharing what I’ve learned with others. Indigo is an attempt to replace
Posted by mikechr | 3 Comments
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Friday, March 31, 2006 11:14 PM

Building your own data bound controls...

In any Web Application, you have data bound controls. The job of a data bound control is to transform your data from some arbitrary format into the format it probably should have originally been stored in. In fact, about 90% of computer code simply converts
Posted by mikechr | 7 Comments
 
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