Objects, Services, and the rants of a lunatic operating out of Microsoft

Have coffee, will travel...

Just cross posting so I don't lose track of this....

Date: 05/19/2014

So I recently was working on a system that used extensive need of delayed factory support for...

Date: 03/01/2013

So had a fun business entity that needed a write only set of data that contained no duplicates...

Date: 02/28/2013

This is really an add-on to this post here. Turns out most people were only thinking that you could...

Date: 10/15/2012

Powerpoint outline for a class I used to teach regarding the topic of TDD. Recently was asked by a...

Date: 09/04/2012

Been meaning to post this for a long while now. Pretty much sums me up :) thanks to Scott Adams and...

Date: 04/10/2012

OK all of you readers out there should know and love Powershell by now and you are using it...

Date: 03/23/2012

where the set of D is dimensions and the set of M is measures. Let F(x) calculate the number of...

Date: 03/14/2012

OK let’s make this clear. You can totally call SQL Functions, SQL SPROCS, or any other raw SQL...

Date: 02/16/2012

First of all, I don't actually have a better term for tradtional use of XAML compiled as part of an...

Date: 10/28/2011

So until we get EF 4.2 and the support for enumerations as first class citizens those of us needing...

Date: 08/31/2011

HAd this passed to me from the SQL Tips DL here at the 'soft and decided to repost it here to 1....

Date: 06/23/2011

It's no secret that I am a fan of Windsor Container. Here's a really great series of Advanced...

Date: 01/19/2011

So if you happen to have an EventInfo class and need to determine if the event is static or...

Date: 09/18/2010

Editorial note: EF 4.1 was released as part of the .Net 4 Platform Update 1 release. You should use...

Date: 07/26/2010

Now that’s a great exception message. I think we all can take a clue from the Castle team when...

Date: 07/23/2010

A simple list of items no developer should be without. VS 2010 Productivity...

Date: 06/09/2010

So here's a lightweight handy WCF service instance provider that takes a slightly different approach...

Date: 04/14/2010

OK I am going to let you in on a dirty little secret about Astoria based services. This secret is...

Date: 03/01/2010

So everyone reading this (or at least hopefully everyone) will know that putting data access logic...

Date: 12/11/2009

So let me start with by saying that I love the Geneva Framework. Stuart Kwan and team have so far...

Date: 09/30/2009

So in most programming languages and environments you have will define an operation that performs...

Date: 09/24/2009

This is a followup on my followup here. After rapping some with Alex I was thinking about what an...

Date: 07/31/2009

A set of links that I'm posting because 1) I don't want to lose them and 2) they're handy for people...

Date: 07/22/2009

Date: 07/20/2009

This is handy article I want to keep around for reference. The original thread can be here In prior...

Date: 07/10/2009

The genesis of this occured in a personal conversation regarding a friend's issue they are running...

Date: 07/07/2009

The latest in this series. Here's a 'grabbag' of VS item templates you are welcome to. The set...

Date: 11/11/2008

Another in the series of free Visual Studio templates I personally use being posted. This one...

Date: 11/06/2008

This is the first in a long line of custom templates that I use on a daily basis. Nothing too fancy,...

Date: 11/05/2008

FYI, there’s built-in support for Active Directory sites (since 2.0), including support for adjacent...

Date: 09/04/2008

OK. We're going to assume everyone here knows about ASP.Net Session state. We also will assume that...

Date: 08/24/2008

This bit came about from a post from Brad Wilson back in July that some of my Magenic buddies sent...

Date: 07/17/2008

This entry was edited July 16th, 2008 to include an additional extension method courtesy of Alex...

Date: 07/16/2008

OK it came as a shock to me that so many people were building huge sets of query data that they are...

Date: 06/25/2008

If you are in a situation where you need to pass a windows domain user into SQL then you might want...

Date: 06/25/2008

Using multi threading and transactions in .Net OK this is a pretty simple idea but one that I don't...

Date: 02/19/2008