July 2008 - Jimmy Bogard - Los Techies : Blogs about software and anything tech!

Trusted Subsystem, WCF and IIS 5 - revisited

In my last post, I tried to get the following scenario to work: One thing I didn't add was that I'm running IIS in Windows XP, in IIS 5. In this article on CodePlex , which I originally modeled my solution after and a couple of folks pointed out...

Published Thu, Jul 31 2008 8:26 PM by bogardj

Filed under: WCF

Trusted Subsystem, WCF and IIS

I've just about pulled my hair out on this one. This used to be very easy with ASMX: Basically, I have IIS running as a trusted user, "Service". I want WCF to run as this user for connecting to databases, etc. I don't care who's...

Published Wed, Jul 30 2008 10:43 PM by bogardj

Filed under: WCF

Integrating StructureMap with WCF

When developing with an IoC container like StructureMap, eventually some place in your code you will need to call the registry to instantiate your classes with their dependencies. With StructureMap, this means a call to ObjectFactory.GetInstance. Ideally...

Published Tue, Jul 29 2008 10:44 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Tools, WCF, StructureMap

Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications

With Rhino Mocks 3.5 just around the corner, I've started using it to create much more readable tests. One of the things that always bothered me with Expect.Call, constraints and the like was that it mixed in the Arrange with Assert. For those that...

Published Thu, Jul 24 2008 8:18 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Tools, BDD, Behavior-Driven Development

Showing some MVC support

Joey was kind enough to create a shirt to support MVC: CafePress shirt Love it. Alternatively, if you want to show your WebForms support, write to the Long Live WebForms guy .

Published Sat, Jul 19 2008 11:36 AM by bogardj

Filed under: ASP.NET MVC

Expressions and Lambdas

Some conversation on a recent post on Chad's blog brought up the confusion between Lambdas and Expressions. A while back, I went into the various ways to create delegates throughout the different versions of C#. Although I touched on it briefly, the...

Published Fri, Jul 18 2008 10:59 PM by bogardj

Filed under: LINQ

Separation of Concerns by example: Part 5

In our last example, disaster finally struck our quaint little application. A strange defect showed up, which would be almost impossible to reproduce back on our developer machine. But because we've broken out our dependencies, our CustomerFinder...

Published Thu, Jul 17 2008 8:23 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Refactoring, LINQ to SQL

Speaking at ADNUG tonight

I'm speaking at ADNUG tonight about legacy code: The development landscape is strewn with existing legacy systems. As these systems continue to generate revenue and provide value, eventually some force will act upon the development team to change...

Published Mon, Jul 14 2008 7:35 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Legacy Code

ALT.NET Certification course

I am pleased to announce a new certification course, offered directly by me: The Certified ALT.NET Technician (CANT) training course As the great composer Burt Bacharach sings: What the world needs now, is certs, more certs For such a valuable certification...

Published Sat, Jul 12 2008 5:16 PM by bogardj

Filed under: ALT.NET

Going lean in Visual Studio

Left unchecked, Visual Studio tends to get very cluttered: I found I don't use any of these icons. Copy, Cut, Paste, Undo, Redo? Those are all keyboard shortcuts. Comment and Uncomment? Ctrl+K+C, Ctrl+K+U. Save All? Ctrl+Shift+S. No more, I'm...

Published Sat, Jul 12 2008 2:43 PM by bogardj

Filed under: Tools

Separation of Concerns by example: Part 4

In the last part, we finally broke out the caching and data access concerns from our original class. The series so far includes: Separation of Concerns - how not to do it Separation of Concerns by example: Part 1 - Refactoring away from static class Separation...

Published Thu, Jul 10 2008 7:57 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Refactoring, BDD, Behavior-Driven Development

Entities and the Law of Demeter

The Law of Demeter , and its corresponding code smell, Inappropriate Intimacy , are some of the best bang-for-your-buck code smells that you can address. The basic idea behind each of these concepts is code related to an object should probably be inside...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 7:51 AM by bogardj

Filed under: Domain-Driven Design, Refactoring

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