Archive For The “.NET” Category
I’ve just posted up on GitHub a quick example WPF application that shows an MVVM-style progress meter dialog, using the .NET 4.5 Task Parallel Library (TPL). Specifically demonstrating: A progress meter using .NET 4 Tasks (not BackgroundWorkers). Async support. Cancelling of Tasks via CancellationTokens. Exception handling back to the original thread. Reporting background progress updates [...]
What happens in situations where the developers and the business don’t agree on the terminology — the Ubiquitous Language — of a system? This post was inspired by a blog post by Greg Young, which was in turn inspired by a question on the DDD mailing list. Here are some of my experiences where this [...]
If you’re using Castle Windsor as your IoC container, the StartableFacility is great simple way to start up services like timers, socket listeners, etc that run for the duration of your application and require two-step initialization — i.e., constructing them then starting them. All you have to do is implement an IStartable interface, with a [...]
If you’re using SVN, you can very easily configure TeamCity to insert the commit revision number into the assembly by using the built-in AssemblyInfo Patcher with a pattern like 1.0.0.%build.vcs.number%. This works because SVN and .NET both use integers for their version numbers. Git, on the other hand, uses a 40-character SHA-1 string as a [...]
Raven DB, like most NoSQL databases designed to be fast and scale out, does not readily support enforcing uniqueness of fields between documents. If two users must not share the same email address or Facebook ID, you cannot simply add a unique constraint for it. However, Raven DB does guarantee uniqueness in one place: each [...]
