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In the 1990s I coded on a few systems where the architecture was that we attached database functionality to our business objects, so you could do something like     someObject.Value = 4;   someObject.Save();   While this looks appealing, this pattern (I later learned that it is called active record) has fallen out of ...

I've had Microsoft Source Analysis (AKA StyleCop) installed for a couple of weeks. Yesterday I have very belatedly taken the plunge into Resharper.   I have gotten used to the style promoted by Source Analysis. I've gotten into the zone of feeling that warm fuzzy glow from code having no warnings. Howard van Rooijen calls ...

A colleague of mine this week showed me his code coverage as being over 94% for his production code, which impressed me so much, it spurred me on to ensure that all code paths in my code from now on go blue instead of red when testing with Team coverage, using the Test driven .NET addin for visual studio 2008. Not sure what I'm on about, then ...

WFC is well known to be brilliant at SOAP, and fans of WCF may be aware that in version 3.5 may be aware of the cool new features. But the rest of us (the REST of us, haha, I'm so funny)  may not know that it addresses in a simple and flexible way other scenarios- that is, serving XML or JSON data off simple Urls in a REST ...

What kind of thing is Language Integrated Query, exactly? You can draw the line in a number of places, but I am going to cut it down to the core, where LINQ is a Domain Specific Language.   There are LINQ-enabling language features, i.e the language extensions of type ...