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Episode #123: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at the new Code Contracts library which is out of MS Research and will be part of .Net 4.0/Vs2010.

Contracts allow for many different ways to perform language agnostic code validation and in this episode we are going to focus on how to utilize the Object Invariant checking to maintain an objects state.

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Episode #122: Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we will take a look at how to create a custom function for your NAnt script.

After you have the basics of NAnt down you may quickly find out that there are features you need, but they are not part of the core library. The good news for you is that in very little effort or coding you can create your own custom assembly which will expose your newly created NAnt functions

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Episode #121: Exploring how to use Looping Expressions w/ Spark

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:24:46 GMT

Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we will continue taking a look at the Spark View engine.

We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Looping Expressions with the Spark View engine.

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Episode #120: Learning the Decorator Pattern

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we will take at how we can use the Decorator Pattern in our application.

The decorator pattern is a structural pattern which allows you to attach new or additional actions to an object dynamically. Using the decorator pattern provides a very clean and flexible alternative to subclassing (via inheritance) your object and thus creating an unwanted inheritance tree

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Episode #119: Exploring how to use Expressions w/ Spark

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we will continue taking a look at the Spark View engine.

We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are going to review simply scenarios such as math based expressions and move up to looking at nested if-then-else statements.

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Episode #118: Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Pre/Post Conditions

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at the new Code Contracts library which is out of MS Research and will be part of .Net 4.0/Vs2010.

Contracts allow for many different ways to perform language agnostic code validation and in this episode we are going to focus on how to setup pre and post condition validation.

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Episode #117: Exploring how to use Global Variables and ViewData (Strongly typed and weak typed) with Spark

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we will continue taking a look at the Spark View engine.

In this episode we will focus our attention on how to utilized both global variables and local variables. We will also take a look at how to create and use both strongly typed viewdata and weakly typed view data.

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Episode #116: Learning Hudson: Setting up to run and report Unit Test results

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we will continue taking a look at how to setup the Hudson build server for usage in a .net environment.

We will be taking a look at how we can use Hudson to report our Unit Tests results after each build. We will be looking at both reporting NUnit and MSTest results and will also show how you can convert MSTest results into NUnit results in order to report all tests in a single screen.

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Episode #115: Learning how to add IntelliSense for the Spark View Engine

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we are going to continue our look at how to use the Spark View Engine

We will be focusing on how to add intellisense to the Visual Studio IDE to aid in your development experiance.

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Episode #114: How to Create a Custom Performance Counter

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we are going to take a look at how to create custom performance counters.

Part of the core .net framework allows you to create code which can hook into the underlying performance counters which the windows OS has. We will show how you can easily create hooks to take advantage of these counters.

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Episode #113: Saying Hello to the Spark View Engine

Derik Whittaker — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Donn Felker

In this episode we are going to start a series where we take an indepth look at the Spark View Engine.

Spark is a view engine for Asp.Net Mvc and Castle Project MonoRail frameworks. The idea is to allow the html to dominate the flow and the code to fit seamlessly.

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Episode #112: Learning the Observer Pattern w/ Callbacks

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 21 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Presented By: Codebetter.com Network
Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we will take at how we can use the Observer Pattern in our application.

This is a follow up episode to Episode 108 where we take another look at this pattern and how we can implement it using either call backs or events. The Observer pattern allows you to define a one-to-many relationship inside your application where the parent object (the one) has the ability to notify the child objects (the many) of any state change. You can utilize this pattern to make sure that a set of objects are keep in order when there behavior needs to change based on the state of your application.

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Episode #111: Introduction to AutoMapper

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Eric Polerecky

In this episode we will take a look at how we can simplify our entity mapping by using AutoMapper.

AutoMapper uses a fluent configuration API to define an object-object mapping strategy. AutoMapper uses a convention-based matching algorithm to match up source to destination values. Currently, AutoMapper is geared towards model projection scenarios to flatten complex object models to DTOs and other simple objects, whose design is better suited for serialization, communication, messaging, or simply an anti-corruption layer between the domain and application layer.

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Episode #110: Learning the State Pattern

Derik Whittaker — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we will take a look at how we can use the State Pattern in our application.

The State pattern is designed to allow you to create a way to reset or change how an object will act when its state is changed. By utilizing this pattern you can cleanly and easliy setup your application to be state away and be able to make decisions based on the given state

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Episode #109: Learning Hudson: Setting up a simple build

Derik Whittaker — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT

Author: Derik Whittaker

In this episode we will take a look at how to setup the Hudson build server for our application. We will start off by showing how simple it is to install Hudson and then walk through various configuration points in the server. Finally we will end up by creating a simple build which pulls from SVN and runs our Nant script

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