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.NET Stack Traces And Anonymous Methods

I learned a little more about stack traces in .NET today… in a very painful manner… but, lesson learned! Hopefully someone else will be able to learn this lesson without having to spend 4 hours on it like I did. Take a look at this stack trace that I...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 03-19-2010

Filed under: .NET, C#, Debugging, Stack Trace
Teaching AutoMapper about our conventions

I often need to send data from my entities to the client in JSON format to enable rich AJAX functionality. It isn’t practical to serialize the entities directly, so they are first flattened to a data transfer object (DTO) before serialization. For example...

Posted to Joshua Flanagan by Joshua Flanagan on 03-19-2010

Filed under: automapper, conventions
A Response Concerning Semantics And Intention Revealing Code

My previous post talked about some code that was using a null value to cause certain behavior. The general idea behind the post was questioning how I should go about remodeling that part of my code so that it would be more explicit. One of the comments...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 03-19-2010

Filed under: Design Patterns, Principles and Patterns, .NET, C#, Quality, Craftsmanship
Rhino Mocks Examples, with a fix

Jon Kruger created an excellent explanation of Rhino Mocks, using unit tests to demonstrate and illuminate the syntax and capabilities. (Found via @gar3t .) It needs one small correction, which I'd like to write about here so that I can link to and support...

Posted to Girl Writes Code (Sharon Cichelli) by Sharon J. Cichelli on 03-18-2010

Filed under: unit testing, Rhino Mocks
Redgate is a Platinum Sponsor of Austin Code Camp 2010

Red Gate Software makes ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals working with SQL Server, .NET, and Exchange Server. The company’s product line includes must-have tools for .NET developers who program in...

Posted to Eric Hexter by erichexter on 03-18-2010

Filed under: Community, AustinCodeCamp
Your Best Foot Forward: Writing An Effective Technical Cover Letter

Are you sure that your cover letter is doing its job? How do you know if you’ve written an effective cover letter? If you aren’t getting a call back on your application, your cover letter may be the problem. How Cover Letters are Read When...

Posted to Eric Anderson's Blog by Eric Anderson on 03-18-2010
Working With Assertions Made on Arguments in Rhino Mocks

Today when modifying what we call an “order notifier” (essentially observers that are notified when an order is placed), I was having trouble figuring out why my test was failing. The project is written in C# and this test was using Rhino...

Posted to Chris Missal by Chris Missal on 03-17-2010

Filed under: Testing, Best Practices, RhinoMocks, NUnit
Application Events: Modeling Selection vs De-Selection as Separate Events?

I’m using my Event Aggregator in my current project to manage communication between a custom control and it’s parent form. This is the same control I talked about in my CQRS Performance Engineering post. It has several drop down lists on it, and each...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 03-17-2010

Filed under: Analysis and Design, Model-View-Presenter, AppController, Craftsmanship, Messaging
Side Projects, Community Involvement, Etc.

There was some interesting discussion amongst LosTechies members recently, and one of the things that came out of it was a comment about LT members keeping the community informed on what they are doing in terms of side projects, community efforts, etc...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 03-16-2010
A Type Safe IDataReader Wrapper

I don’t always use NHibernate… it’s true… in fact, plain old ADO.NET, DataSets, DataTables and IDataReaders can offer some nice advantages when used in the right way at the right time. Today, I found myself writing more IDataReader code and getting tired...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 03-15-2010

Filed under: Design Patterns, .NET, Data Access, C#, Pragmatism
Semantic Code: Migrating From A Chatty Interface To A Simple One With A Data Transfer Object

I’ve worked on several C#/Compact Framework/WinForms projects for handheld devices over the years – most of which have involved a require for users wearing gloves to be able to type on a virtual keyboard. It’s not terribly difficult to implement this...

Posted to new ThoughtStream("Derick Bailey"); by derick.bailey on 03-15-2010

Filed under: Analysis and Design, Principles and Patterns, .NET, C#
The Book Shelf: Lean Software Development An Agile Toolkit

http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolkit/dp/0321150783 At about 180 pages or so, it is a quick read. I have heard lots of talk about Lean, Kanban, etc. and thought it was time to sit down and read Mary and Tom Poppendieck's 2003 book...

Posted to John V. Petersen's Blog by John V. Petersen on 03-15-2010

Filed under: Book Reviews, Kanban, Agile, Poppendieck, Lean, Books
posh-git: A PowerShell Environment for Git

I've been meaning to put together a post about this for a few days, but Mark Embling beat me to it . I'm a big fan of PowerShell and Git, but had never bothered using them together until Jeremy Skinner's post about adding tab completion pushed me over...

Posted to Solutionizing .NET (Keith Dahlby) by Keith Dahlby on 03-15-2010

Filed under: posh-git, git, powershell
DiscountASP.Net is a Platinum Sponsor of Austin Code Camp 2010

DiscountASP.NET delivers the best value in cutting edge, enterprise-class shared ASP.NET Hosting through continuous innovation. We offer One Hosting Plan and Add-ons in the US and UK. Information at www.discountasp.net On behalf of the Austin .Net Users...

Posted to Eric Hexter by erichexter on 03-15-2010

Filed under: Community, AustinCodeCamp
Website Resource: Ajax Load Indicator

Stumbled across the site when I was searching for a progress indicator for one of my projects: http://www.ajaxload.info/ . This is a very handy site that will generate an animated gif in accordance with your specifications. I'm using jQuery to fetch JSON...

Posted to John V. Petersen's Blog by John V. Petersen on 03-13-2010

Filed under: Javascript, JSON, Developer Websites, Ajax, jQuery, Progress Indicators