Category Archives: .NET

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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Integrating ObjectBuilder with ASP.NET

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Geoff Lane

ObjectBuilder is a .NET framework made for building Inversion of Control or Dependency Injection containers. Unlike Spring or Pico, ObjectBuilder is not a full DI framework, instead it’s a framework for building DI solutions. Yes, that’s incredibly weird to me … Continue reading →

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Mocking .NET Objects with NUnit

Posted on March 10, 2007 by Geoff Lane

NUnit is my Unit Testing tool of choice for .NET development. Microsoft provides a unit testing framework but it only works with some higher-end versions of Visual Studio. They’re so similar that it’s almost ridiculous that Microsoft created their own … Continue reading →

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Custom XML Serialization for the .NET Compact Framework

Posted on February 28, 2007 by Geoff Lane

.NET provides a whole slew of utilities for serializing objects into an XML form. But as I wrote in my previous post, .NET Compact Framework has serious problems with this serialization. The good news is that you can leverage all … Continue reading →

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.NET Compact Framework Serialization Bugs

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Geoff Lane

XML Serialization in the .NET Compact Framework seems to be buggy enough that it is generally not useful if you need to serialize a class that conforms to a schema of some sort. If all you need to do is … Continue reading →

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Automated Subversion Tagging With MSBuild

Posted on February 23, 2007 by Geoff Lane

I’ve written previously about using MSBuild With Nunit as well as a bit of a Manifesto on Relentless Build Automation. I believe that automating the build and deployment process is a necessary step to ensure the reliable delivery of quality … Continue reading →

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More .NET Compact Framework Woes

Posted on February 4, 2007 by Geoff Lane

I posted previously on a Bug in the .NET Compact Framework with the XmlEnum Attribute with whitespace in the name. Well I’ve run into some other interesting “features”. The first thing to realize is that the things that work on … Continue reading →

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.NET Makes Me Mad (Generics and Collections edition)

Posted on February 1, 2007 by Geoff Lane

Ok, so I’ve decided I need to rant a little bit about .NET. This ends up in part being, “What I like about Java that I don’t like about C#”. I think this is fair though. It’s not like C# … Continue reading →

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Using SQL Compact Edition Under ASP.NET

Posted on January 17, 2007 by Geoff Lane

What is SQLCE? SQL Compact Edition is the “low end” version of a SQL database solution from Microsoft. It is a single-file, application managed, database implementation. It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of the high end database … Continue reading →

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Bug In the .NET CompactFramework XmlEnum with Whitespace

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Geoff Lane

In .NET you can use Attributes to mark up properties in a class to tell the XmlSerializer how to marshal that class to and from XML. There are a number of different attributes you can use. You can use enums … Continue reading →

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