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Recently I mentioned this.Log . Given the amount of folks that were interested in this.Log, I decided to pull this source out and make a NuGet package (well, several packages). Source The source is now located at https://github.com/ferventcoder/this.log . Please feel free to send pull requests (with...
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I have a need to update our build version number in our various *AssemblyInfo.cs files each and every time we do a release build of our products. I wanted to do this as a build step on our build server and I thought that Powershell would be the best way to do this given the fact we are use pSake as our...
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Core Requirements Requirements should be given as the Core Requirement , and avoid the common pitfall of providing Prescriptive Requirements As an example, a core requirement in an insurance system may be: As a user of the Broker system, I want to create a Settlement Batch of Eligible Documents across...
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As software creators we don't get to decide what version of our tools / libraries that people use. If we try to force them, our users will go somewhere else. Update: What Type of Software This Applies To This post talks of tools, applications and libraries. Things that end up in the users hands....
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Recently when I was working with Entity Framework inside one of our RIA Services end points I ran into the errors below while trying to save my changes. Of course at first this error caused me to stop and scratch my head To give a bit of background on what I was doing. Inside one of our RIA...
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“Because everyone wants to kick their database, but sometimes kicking your database is a good thing!” Many would not argue that you should version your code, and few would argue against versioning your code in a way that can lead back to a specific point in source control history. However...
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**** NOTE: This post is valid for the Developer Preview of WinRT and MAY change in later releases **** If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their...
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If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the system search mechanism. This post (and subsequent...
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If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the system search mechanism. This post (and subsequent...
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If you have been paying attention to any of the Windows 8/Metro stuff that has come out sense BUILD you may have noticed that with Windows 8/Metro application developers can now easily light up their applications by enabling their apps to hook into the system search mechanism. This post (and subsequent...
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If you are not a power user, like me, of Fiddler2 (or even a non-power user) you may run into the occasion where Fiddler simply stops capturing your traffic it can be very frustrating. Today this happened to me, well technically I caused the issue a few weeks ago, but just noticed it today. If...
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***** UPDATE ***** If you would like to see a video on this topic check out Episode 194 @ Dimecasts.Net ******************* When building out a Silverlight application (or WPF application for that matter) the MVVM pattern is the pattern of choice for most projects I am aware of. When using MVVM...
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Ok, this is just a cool little feature I found in Ninject today and I am 100% sure I may be the last person on the planet to find this but who cares. today as I was trying to get IoC implemented in our application at work I ran across the need to bind a type to an existing singleton in our application...
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***** NOTE: This post was created because other posts on the net are outdated and the ninject libraries have changed. ***** When using any type of IoC container one of your goals needs to be to remove as much friction and ceremony as possible. One way to do this with an IoC container is to use...
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Anyone who has been doing any type of .net development knows you can subscribe (MSDN on event subscription ) to an event as follows: Subscribe to an Non-Anonymous Method ... // instance class w/ an event myClass.DoSomething += HandleDoSomething ... // the method which handles the event privat evoid HandleDoSomething...