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Episode #166: Setting Up Fluent NHibernate for your project

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use setup and configure Fluent NHibernate for usage. We will focus on how to setup your database settings as well as how to get your Fluent NHibernate mappings registered into the system.

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Episode #165: Introduction to Nhibernate.Burrow

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to implement the NHibernate.Burrow session management library.

NHibernate.Burrow is a light weight middleware developed to support .Net applications using NHibernate by providing advanced and smart session/transaction management and other facilitates.

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Episode #164: Learning how to use Manual Mocks for Testing

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use manual mocks for testing

Often times when creating unit tests we need to work in isolation in order to cover the paths we are attempting to test. When we want to test in isolation you can use a testing technique where you mock out your dependencies. When using Mocks you can either do it manually (what we are looking at) or you can use a mocking framework like Rhino Mocks. Either way you achieve the same results.

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Episode #163: Learning how to use the Extract Interface Technique

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at another refactoring technique, the Extract Interface technique.

This technique allows you to extract an interface from a class in order to break your concrete dependencies. By doing this you can provide yourself with better testing support as well as a better layer of abstractions.

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Episode #162: Learning how to use a Web Cam with Silverlight

Scott Seely — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Scott Seely

In this episode we are going to take a look at how you can setup and use a web camera in Silverlight. We will walk you though how to capture both the raw video as well as how to take snap shots of the video.

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Episode #161: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Custom Type Resolvers

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to continue looking at the AutoMapper framework.

AutoMapper is a framework which uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. In this episode we are going to learn how to use type resolvers. Type resolvers allow you to perform custom value mapping in a very simple and elegant way with very little code

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Episode #160: A deeper look into AutoMapper: Projection and Flattening Objects

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to continue looking at the AutoMapper framework.

AutoMapper is a framework which uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. In this episode we are going to take a deeper look at how you can flatten your model during transformation or perform projection during transformation.

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Episode #159: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 2

Donn Felker — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we are going to continue looking at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine.

In this episode we will take a deeper look at partials and learn more about their _undocumented_ features. We will also be learning how partials will allow us to create clean, compartmentalized and well orgianized code.

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Episode #158: Exploring Operator Overloading in C#

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how create overloaded operators for your objects.

perator overloading permits user-defined operator implementations to be specified for operations where one or both of the operands are of a user-defined class or struct type. When creating your own operators there are many different operators which can be overloaded.

+, -, *, /, %, &, |, <<, >> All C# binary operators can be overloaded
+, -, !, ~, ++, –, true, false All C# unary operators can be overloaded
==, !=, <, >, <= , >= All relational operators can be overloaded, but only as pairs.

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Episode #157: Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1

Donn Felker — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine.

We will be taking a first look at partials and learn how we can setup our application to use partials as well as how to use them in your application. We will also be learning how partials will allow us to create clean, compartmentalized and well orgianized code.

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Episode #156: Learning how to use Named Content Areas w/ Spark

Donn Felker — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we are going to take a look at the how to setup and use Named Content Areas w/ the Spark view Engine. Named Content areas allow for an easy and simple way to organize the content or structure of you website.

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Episode #155: Exploring .Net 4 Features - Tuples

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to continue taking a look at some of the new features which are part of .Net 4.

We will be focusing this episode on Tuples. Tuples allow you to return multiple values from a method with simplicity and ease by allowing you to dynamically create a return object which is typed for your specific needs.

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Episode #154: How to host a WCF Service inside your Windows Service

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look how to host your WCF service inside your Windows Service. In many situations hosting WCF inside of IIS may not be the best solution for you or your team. When this is the case hosting inside a windows service may be the best solution and in this episode we will take a look at how you can accomplish this.

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Episode #153: Exploring .Net 4 Features - Named and Optional Parameters

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to start taking a look at some of the new features which are part of .Net 4.

We will be focusing this episode on Named and Optional Parameters. Optional Parameters all you to default values for your methods which can reduce the need to for overloading methods. Named parameters allow you to specify the exact parameter by Name when calling a method

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Episode #152: Introduction to MEF, Getting rolling with basic usage

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a quick look at the new plugin framework from Microsoft the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF for short).

In this episode we will explore how to setup your first MEF based plugin system and show how easy it can be.

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