With the release of EntityFramework v1 and lack of features such as Lazy Loading and Persistence Ignorance leading to Vote of No Confidence resulted the team working on Entity Framework project to actually change route and as the result, a lot of improvements has been made in EntityFramework v4. Wait a second…What happened to v2 and v3, you might ask? Well, EntityFramework vNext that will be released with .NET Framework 4 is named EntityFramework v4, so you didn’t miss anything. Let’s see how PI works in this version. Continue reading
I started checking out the new Silverlight 4 Beta this week and the most important feature (for me) added to this release : FlowDirection. If you’re not a WPF guy, this is the equivalent of RightToLeft in WinForm world, just recently added to Silverlight. Continue reading
There are many validation frameworks out there but sometimes you need to build one your own. Let’s see how easy it is to build a simple validation framework in TDD style using functionalities in System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations. This is a rather new assembly introduced in .NET Framework 3.5, mainly used to define metadata for ASP.NET Dynamic Data controls. We’re going to use the validation attributes containing in this assembly to validate our entities and models. Continue reading
The other day I was working on an interceptor that listened to calls to some Services and redirected the calls to services hosted on remote machine, instead of running it locally when strangest thing happened. I was trying to find and invoke existing methods on my interface that according to reflection, were not there. Continue reading
This is the first part of the series I’ll be posting about how to create a composite application with WPF. Continue reading
In the first part, we learned how to create a basic composite UI with Cliburn Framework. In this part we’ll see how Presenters play their part and how we do binding, etc. Continue reading
One of the great things about ASP.NET WebForms was that it was very easy to create reuseable custom controls and components, but with appearance of ASP.NET MVC and lots of developers moving towards it, which is a good thing, what happens to component oriented development? Continue reading
Caliburn is an application framework for WPF / Silverlight. If you’re developing applications for these platforms, there are many reasons why you definitely need to be using this framework, but today, I noticed how using this framework resulted writing less code while doing more. Continue reading
Sometimes when registering classes on Windsor container, that extend an existing base class with an interface, using auto registration and FirstInterface method is useless, because first interface finds the interface implemented by base class Continue reading
I’ve been working on a small LoB application to manage sales of a small sales office. I thought it’d be a good idea to put to use my WPF knowledge and use WPF to create this application. Continue reading
