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Introducing the Entile Notification Framework

Jan

11

2011

Update 2011-01-13: A first preview is now available. You can get it here! This post is an introduction to the (not yet publicly released) Entile Notification Framework for Windows Phone 7 (wow, I should work for marketing at Microsoft…). If you like what you see and would like to give it a go yourself, follow ...

Episode 2 – Injecting the context

Sep

10

2010

Alright, it’s about time for the second post in my series on a reference architecture for back-end services. As you may recall, my last post covered how to build up Repositories using the code-only features of Entity Framework CTP 4. This time I’ll talk a bit about how to connect things together using dependency injection ...

Episode 1 – Repository with EF Magic Unicorn (CTP 4)

Aug

20

2010

This will be the first episode in a series of posts that I hope I’ll be able to write in the next few weeks. I’m working on a reference architecture for back-end services that use a few of the new technologies in .NET Framework 4 (and some that are still in preview). This first post ...

Code Contracts for your Interface

Aug

12

2010

So by now, you have probably heard a lot about “code contracts”, a new feature in .NET 4.0 that allows you to decorate your methods and properties with things like pre- and post conditions. I’ve seen them mentioned a lot and I’ve seen quite a few basic demos that explain the different types of contracts ...

Unity interception performance

Oct

6

2009

The past two years or so I’ve been working with a rather large team of developers on the latest incarnation of our bespoke web site platform here at Thomas Cook NE. We decided early on to use Unity and the Interception Extension at pretty much all layers across the entire site. One page view will ...

Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET – solution

Oct

17

2007

In my last post, I asked for help with a problem we’ve been having with caching of dynamic controls – and I got some from Dave Reed. Dave works for the ASP.NET team and if his blog isn’t on your roll yet, add it ASAP – it’s simply brilliant. Dave explained the problem: Apparently, the ...

Caching dynamic controls in ASP.NET

Sep

10

2007

Since the invention of partial caching in ASP.NET, we have been trying our best to implement it on our web pages. But without much luck. This post is a request, or I guess you could call it a “cry”, for help! The problem is that we create all our controls dynamically, and each page can ...

Code beauty

May

16

2007

It’s pretty clear that there are two basic kinds of developers; those that write code only to get the job done, and those that write code which in addition to getting the job done also looks good. I’m definitely part of the latter group and I have to say that sometimes I get frustrated when ...

Code conventions

Dec

3

2004

During the years I’ve seen a lot of different code convention documents, and they’ve all been huge and inaccessible. No-one ever read them through, and even if you did you couldn’t possibly keep all of it in mind all the time. Anyway, since there was no such document here at Observer when I started, one ...