Scripting on Windows
I needed to create a script of medium complexity that goes along these lines: 1. Take a list of databases. 2. Each database has an SVN folder, list of files […]
Software Development
MEF: Though Shalt Not LoadFrom
I was preparing for a presentation on MEF, and I stumbled upon this sentence: catalog.Catalogs.Add(new DirectoryCatalog(“C:\\SimpleCalculator\\SimpleCalculator\\Extensions”)); “This absolute path is for debugging purposes only. In a production application, you would […]
.NET: String Constants vs Static Readonly Fields
Numerous books and articles explain the difference between public const string Foo = “foo”; and public static readonly string Foo = “foo”; The former is treated as true constant that […]
Another Example for Object Factory
As one of the commentators correctly pointed out, it does not make much sense to create value objects such as Order via dependency injection, so my previous example was perhaps […]
Object Factory in Unity 2.x
A couple of days ago I spent some time trying to find how to make Unity call a factory method when user requests an object. Then I forgot about it, […]
Retrieve the LoaderException property for more information…
Here’s the exception I received today: System.Reflection.ReflectionTypeLoadException. Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information. Isn’t it lovely? Do the authors […]
Software Development: A Day in The Life (Long)
At times I feel that software development is much, much harder than it should be. Ridiculous crappy annoyances await you on every corner, some of them many years old. We […]
Visual Studio Live Conference Wrap Up
Besides what I described before, I also attended sessions on WCF 4.5 and Visual Studio debugging. Changes in WCF 4.5 are relatively minor, the biggest one being support for server-side […]
Nested Unity Containers and Singletons
I work on a project that uses Unity dependency injection framework. You get objects from container by calling Container.Resolve<SomeType>(). By default each call to Resolve() will return a new object. […]
Visual Studio Live Conference – Day 3
By their own admission, the organizers tried to squeeze most interesting stuff into the first two days, so the third day was less agile and prone to repetition of the […]