Articles tagged .NET Framework

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Michael Sorens in .NET

The Zen of Code Reviews: Review As If You Own the Code

A code review is a serious business; an essential part of development. Whoever signs off on a code review agrees, essentially, that they would be...

07 March 2016 23 min read

Paulo Morgado

What’s New in C# 6

The C# language itself has changed little in version 6, the main importance of the release being the introduction of the Roslyn .NET Compiler Platform....

30 November 2015 14 min read

Jon Smith

Deploying an Entity Framework Database into Production

Entity Framework can be useful for getting up and running quickly with a database application, but when it comes to deployment, EF's built-in data migration...

17 November 2015 23 min read

Michael Sorens

The Zen of Code Reviews: Best Practices

If you don't feel that you are getting helpful and comprehensive feedback from code reviews, it may well be your fault. Unless you are considerate...

24 August 2015 12 min read

Clive Tong

What is DNX?

In the past, working in .NET for non-Windows platforms has been dependent on third-party frameworks like Mono. Now, with VS2015 and DNX Microsoft have stepped...

30 July 2015 6 min read

Michael Sorens

The Zen of Code Reviews: Pre-Review Comments

Code Reviews can have a great deal of benefit if they are done well and thoroughly. They are done best if it it isn't a...

10 March 2015 14 min read

Dino Esposito

Quick and Dirty Web Data-Binding

Sometimes, the sheer byzantine complexity of the typical JavaScript frameworks underlying a typical web application can give you pause for thought. If all you need...

04 February 2015 12 min read

Jon Smith

Using Entity Framework With an Existing Database: Data Access

Pre-existing SQL databases, particularly if complex, can often pose problems for software developers who are creating a new application. The data may be in a...

01 December 2014 18 min read

Tom Fischer

Rethinking the Practicalities of Recursion

We all love recursion right up to the point of actually using it in production code. Why? Recursion can illustrate in code many of the...

14 November 2014 11 min read

Konrad Lukasik

Take your CRUD to the next level with DDD concepts

Sometimes, in a software development, the level of complexity in part of the project can get to a point where the experienced developers will rethink...

30 October 2014 10 min read

Edward Charbeneau

Creating Custom OAuth Middleware for MVC 5

Website visitors will have come to expect to be able to use OAuth authentication, rather than require yet another ID and password. Although MVC5 provides...

04 August 2014 9 min read

Michael Sorens

A TDD Journey: 3- Mocks vs. Stubs; Test Frameworks; Assertions; ReSharper Accelerators

Test-Driven Development (TDD) involves the repetition of a very short development cycle that begins with an initially-failing test that defines the required functionality, and ends...

01 August 2014 14 min read

Michael Sorens

A TDD Journey: 5- Tests vs. Code; Refactor Friendliness; Test Parameterization

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has a workflow of writing some test code, and then writing some production code to make the test pass. That is necessary...

01 August 2014 14 min read

Michael Sorens

A TDD Journey: 2- Naming Tests; Mocking Frameworks; Dependency Injection

Test-Driven Development (TDD) relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle Starting from an initially failing automated test that defines the functionality that is...

31 July 2014 13 min read

Konrad Lukasik

The JavaScript Landscape in Broad Brushstrokes

JavaScript has come a long way from its humble origins as a simple interpreted object-oriented language for browser-side scripting of web pages. It's many inadequacies,...

30 July 2014 11 min read

Jon Smith

The .NET 4.5 async/await feature in Promise and Practice

The .NET 4.5 async/await feature provides an opportunity for improving the scalability and performance of applications, particularly where tasks are more effectively done in parallel....

28 July 2014 20 min read

Michael Sorens

A TDD Journey: 1-Trials and Tribulations

Test-Driven Development (TDD) has a misleading name, because the objective is to design and specify that the system you are developing behaves in the ways...

15 July 2014 12 min read

Jon Smith

Catching Bad Data in Entity Framework

Any website that rejects the users' input without giving enough information to correct what they're doing is doomed to be unpopular. Entity Framework offers three...

11 July 2014 17 min read

Konrad Lukasik

Configuration Management with PowerShell and XML

For the rapid delivery of any software application, there must be an effective configuration management system that is scripted. As the application increases in size...

03 June 2014 13 min read

Michael Williamson

Moving from Practice to Production with Test-Driven Development

Michael Williamson answers three common questions that come up in test-driven development (TDD), including the most likely causes of each potential problem, and practical tips...

07 April 2014 10 min read