Category Archives: .NET

Using Quartz.NET, Spring.NET and NHibernate to run Scheduled Tasks in ASP.NET

Posted on March 7, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Running scheduled tasks in web applications is not normally a straightforward thing to do. Web applications are built to respond to requests from users and respond to that request. This request/response lifecycle doesn’t always match well to a long running … Continue reading →

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DRY your CruiseControl.NET Configuration

Posted on January 30, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is one of the principles of good software development. The idea is that there should ideally be one and only one “source of knowledge” for a particular fact or calculation in a system. Basically it comes … Continue reading →

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MSBuild Task for PartCover

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Geoff Lane

<![Rant[ I continue to lament the dearth of option for Test Coverage in the .NET world. In the Java world you have open source tools like Emma and Cobertura that are widely used and supported (and many more) as well … Continue reading →

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Tracking Project Metrics

Posted on January 8, 2009 by Geoff Lane

How do you track the health of your software projects? Ideally you could come up with few, easy to collect metrics and have your Continuous Integration system generate the information and maybe even graph it over time. What we track … Continue reading →

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Register and Unregister COM DLL from .NET Code

Posted on January 1, 2009 by Geoff Lane

Background The command regsvr32 is used to register a native, unmanaged code DLL so that it is available via COM. With a registered DLL you can use COM Interop to call that code from .NET Managed code. Regsvr32 is unmanaged … Continue reading →

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Database Migrations for .NET

Posted on April 20, 2008 by Geoff Lane

One of the more difficult things to manage in software projects is often changing a database schema over time. On the projects that I work on, we don’t usually have DBAs who manage the schema so it is left up … Continue reading →

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ALT.NET in Milwaukee

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Geoff Lane

I am a generalist. I like Ruby and Groovy, Rails and Grails, Objective C and Python sometimes. I use bash scripts and I use Java and .NET too. I work on a MacBook Pro running OS X and a Thinkpad … Continue reading →

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Implementing Mixins with C# Extension Methods

Posted on January 3, 2008 by Geoff Lane

Wikipedia defines a mixin as “a class that provides a certain functionality to be inherited by a subclass, but is not meant to stand alone. Inheriting from a mixin is not a form of specialization but is rather a means … Continue reading →

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ALT.NET Milwaukee

Posted on November 8, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Dan wrote a post about ALT.NET in Milwaukee. Basically the idea of ALT.NET is to take the best practices from software development, to find the best tools available in .NET regardless of the vendor and to use them when they … Continue reading →

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ObjectBuilder Can Inject to UserControls As Well

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Geoff Lane

This is a followup to my previous post on integrating ObjectBuilder and ASP.NET. As I was playing around with the solution I hit on the fact that I was only injecting at the Page level. As ASP.NET is a component … Continue reading →

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