Objects, Services, and the rants of a lunatic operating out of Microsoft
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IIS Kerberos Authentication Checklist
Just cross posting so I don't lose track of this....
Date: 05/19/2014
Free Code: Windsor Castle Autofactory Facility
So I recently was working on a system that used extensive need of delayed factory support for...
Date: 03/01/2013
Free Code: WriteOnlySet
So had a fun business entity that needed a write only set of data that contained no duplicates...
Date: 02/28/2013
Yes you can execute PARAMETERIZED sprocs with EF Fluent API Code Only (and more!)
This is really an add-on to this post here. Turns out most people were only thinking that you could...
Date: 10/15/2012
A Case for Test Driven Development
Powerpoint outline for a class I used to teach regarding the topic of TDD. Recently was asked by a...
Date: 09/04/2012
There's no kill switch on awesome...
Been meaning to post this for a long while now. Pretty much sums me up :) thanks to Scott Adams and...
Date: 04/10/2012
Powershell Automation and Remoting (a c# love story)
OK all of you readers out there should know and love Powershell by now and you are using it...
Date: 03/23/2012
Estimating the size a cube
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
Yes you can execute sprocs with EF Fluent API Code Only
OK let’s make this clear. You can totally call SQL Functions, SQL SPROCS, or any other raw SQL...
Date: 02/16/2012
Yes, you CAN use "firm" XAML Services in AppFabric
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
Map private properties with EF Fluent API
So until we get EF 4.2 and the support for enumerations as first class citizens those of us needing...
Date: 08/31/2011
SQL Tip of the Day
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
Windsor Container Series
It's no secret that I am a fan of Windsor Container. Here's a really great series of Advanced...
Date: 01/19/2011
Using reflection to determine if an event is static
So if you happen to have an EventInfo class and need to determine if the event is static or...
Date: 09/18/2010
Interested in POCO Entity Framework 4?
Editorial note: EF 4.1 was released as part of the .Net 4 Platform Update 1 release. You should use...
Date: 07/26/2010
Making exception messages meaningful
Now that’s a great exception message. I think we all can take a clue from the Castle team when...
Date: 07/23/2010
Indispensable Visual Studio Gallery Extensions
A simple list of items no developer should be without. VS 2010 Productivity...
Date: 06/09/2010
Yet Another WCF Service Instance Provider
So here's a lightweight handy WCF service instance provider that takes a slightly different approach...
Date: 04/14/2010
DataServices, IErrorHandlers, Exceptions and the Gulf between them.
OK I am going to let you in on a dirty little secret about Astoria based services. This secret is...
Date: 03/01/2010
Query Providers ARE Still Data Access Code!!
So everyone reading this (or at least hopefully everyone) will know that putting data access logic...
Date: 12/11/2009
An alternative to the WIF ClaimsPrincipal IsInRole implementation (free code)
So let me start with by saying that I love the Geneva Framework. Stuart Kwan and team have so far...
Date: 09/30/2009
Handling the Tri-state asynchronous result dilemma
So in most programming languages and environments you have will define an operation that performs...
Date: 09/24/2009
So what would this actually take?
This is a followup on my followup here. After rapping some with Alex I was thinking about what an...
Date: 07/31/2009
LINQ: Building an IQueryable provider series
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
If only...
Date: 07/20/2009
Executing IIS7 Requests via Application Pool Identity as Anonymous User
This is handy article I want to keep around for reference. The original thread can be here In prior...
Date: 07/10/2009
Services Thinking: My 2 cents
The genesis of this occured in a personal conversation regarding a friend's issue they are running...
Date: 07/07/2009
WCF VS Item Template Grabbag
The latest in this series. Here's a 'grabbag' of VS item templates you are welcome to. The set...
Date: 11/11/2008
WCF Solution Template
Another in the series of free Visual Studio templates I personally use being posted. This one...
Date: 11/06/2008
NUnit Project Template
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
Active Directory Sites Tidbit!
FYI, there’s built-in support for Active Directory sites (since 2.0), including support for adjacent...
Date: 09/04/2008
Work Around Your ASP.Net Session Serialization Issues
OK. We're going to assume everyone here knows about ASP.Net Session state. We also will assume that...
Date: 08/24/2008
Creating Nullable When You Don't Know T
This bit came about from a post from Brad Wilson back in July that some of my Magenic buddies sent...
Date: 07/17/2008
Handy Extension Methods
This entry was edited July 16th, 2008 to include an additional extension method courtesy of Alex...
Date: 07/16/2008
Server Side Pagination in T-SQL / LINQ
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
SIDs in T-SQL
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
Threads, meet Transactions...
Using multi threading and transactions in .Net OK this is a pretty simple idea but one that I don't...
Date: 02/19/2008