PostSharp Official Blog

Announcing PostSharp 1.5 RC2

Gael Fraiteur — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:00 PDT

I am pleased to announce the release of PostSharp 1.5 RC2, now available for download.

This release fixes 10 issues of minor importance, of which two (357 and 358) should be tested by the community before the branch 1.5 can be labeled as stable.

By the end of the month, I hope to publish the stable release.

Happy PostSharping!

-gael

Improved support for ASP.NET in PostSharp 1.5 RC1

Gael Fraiteur — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:00:00 PDT

I forgot to mention it in the last announcement: support for ASP.NET web sites has been polished and is now fairly easy. If you installed PostSharp on your machine using the installer, enabling it on your ASP.WEB web site project is done in two steps:

Add references to PostSharp.Public.dll, PostSharp.Laos.dll and PostSharp.AspNet.dllAdd the following stuff to your web.config:<configuration>
<system.web>
<compilation
assemblyPostProcessorType="Read More...

Announcing PostSharp 1.5 RC1

Gael Fraiteur — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:00:00 PDT

I am pleased to announce the availability of PostSharp 1.5 RC1. This is a true feature-complete release candidate; it meets the quality standards of a real release.

Upgrade from 1.0 Recommended?

If your project is still in development phase, and will be for the next 2 months, I recommend making the upgrade from 1.0 to 1.5 now. The 1.5 branch has to many respects a higher quality level than the 1.0 branch. The last CTP proved to be pretty stable and only little important bugs were reporteRead More...

PostSharp @ Devs4Devs Johannesburg, May 9th

Gael Fraiteur — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:00:00 PDT

Simon Stewart will be presenting PostSharp at the Dev4Devs event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 9th, 2009.

Good luck, Simon, and thank you!

-gael

Join the PostSharp Users' group on LinkedIn

Gael Fraiteur — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:00:00 PDT

If you want to show to the world you are a happy user of PostSharp, feel free to join the new PostSharp Users group on LinkedIn by following the link http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1914476.

Although our message board (http://www.postsharp.org/forum) remains the first choicRead More...

PostSharp @ Chicago Code Camp, May 30th

Gael Fraiteur — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:00:00 PDT

Michael Hall will be giving an introduction to PostSharp at the Chicago Code Camp on May 30th.

Thank you, Mike, and good luck!

-gael

Announcing PostSharp 1.5 CTP 3

Gael Fraiteur — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:00:00 PST

I am pleased to announce the third and last preview of PostSharp 1.5, available for download today.

Its most exiting feature: it is twice faster than PostSharp 1.0! PostSharp 1.5 CTP 3 includes all bug fixes of PostSharp 1.0 SP1. Except performance, this release does not bring any new feature, but went through some refactoring to solve design problems of CTP 2, and documents new features.

For those who still use 1.0, here is a summary of new features of 1.5:

Reading asRead More...

PostSharp Community Survey 2009: Results

Gael Fraiteur — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:00:00 PST

Thank you so much to all of you who have answered the survey. You have been 144 to give very valuable feedback. This is just unexpected and very encouraging.

The results of the survey are very positive!

PostSharp is used by professionals in companies of all sizes, all over the world. Even very big ones!PostSharp is used in production software by at least 30% of users. I think it is more, since survey invitations were skewed in favor of recent users (because users were not Read More...

PostSharp Community Survey 2009

Gael Fraiteur — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:00:00 PST

As PostSharp 1.0 is now released and stable, as PostSharp 1.5 is feature-complete, it's now time to get back to you, community, and ask your opinion about what has been done and which improvements you would like to see in PostSharp 2.0.

That's the reason of the PostSharp Community Survey 2009 and I expressly invite Read More...

PostSharp in Your User Group

Gael Fraiteur — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:00:00 PST

If you love PostSharp and would like to have it presented to your user group, this post is for you. This is not only possible, but it can also be free. Read on, or forward this post to your user group's leader...

You can indeed invite me to your user groups. I can deliver one of the folling talks:

Addressing Non-Functional Requirements With Aspects: An introduction to aspect-oriented programming on the .NET platform. After a funny problem statement, I introRead More...

Announcing PostSharp 1.0 SP1 [Reloaded]

Gael Fraiteur — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:00:00 PST

I am pleased to announce that I have released the first service pack of PostSharp 1.0, correcting 18 issues, most of them of minor severity or frequency.

A good reason to upgrade is that it brings important runtime performance improvements in PostSharp Laos thanks to better caching of calls to System.Reflection and thanks to a custom implementation of Delegate.DynamicInvoke (the default implementation provided by the .NET base library, relying on dynamic invocation through SystemRead More...

Important Changes on postsharp.org

Gael Fraiteur — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:00:00 PST

Announcing Coding Glove

We are excited to announce important changes with PostSharp: we have just launched Coding Glove, the company that will further maintain and develop PostSharp. The objective of Coding Glove is to secure the long-term viability of the PostSharp project and make it trustable for its users. As you know, the necessary condition for an open-source project is to generate a decent amount of business around it. Coding Glove will achieve this objective by offeRead More...

Deeper Into Aspect Inheritance

Gael Fraiteur — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:31:56 PST

As introduced in the previous post, aspect inheritance allows you to apply an aspect to an abstract or virtual method and to have the aspect automatically get propagated to any method overriding the initial method.

The functionality is implemented inside the “custom attribute multicasting” mechanism, so you can use aspect inheritance even for your custom aspects developed using PostSharp Core.

Note that, by default, aspects are not inherited. You have to explicitlyRead More...

Inheritance of Aspects in PostSharp 1.5 CTP 2

Gael Fraiteur — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:34:36 PST

Microsoft PDC 2008 is over, as are American presidential elections. We can now talk about something exiting again and hope it will gain some momentum in the community (thus blogging about boring technical details during PDC was intentional).

It's maybe the most exciting feature of PostSharp after PostSharp itself: aspects are now inheritable.

A code sample worthing a hundred words, here is what is now possible:

public interface IDiary
{
Contact TryFindContact([NoRead More...

Partial Trust, Windows Azure & Pluggable Serializers

Gael Fraiteur — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:53:47 PST

Would I be a perfect .NET developer if I did not blog about Windows Azure? I let the response to your own judgment, but even if you don't agree on that statement read on.

If you try to deploy a PostSharp-enabled assembly into the Development Fabric, you will probably get the following exception:

[SecurityException: Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.SecurityPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failedRead More...

What really changed between 1.0 and 1.5 #2: Understanding reflection wrappers

Gael Fraiteur — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:43:42 PDT

In the first part of this article, I explained that Silverlight (SL) or Compact Framework (CF) assemblies were not loaded in the CLR. However, as you could have noticed in the last sample, user code still receives instances of Type, FieldInfo, or MethodBase. How is this possible, since assemblies are not loaded, even not "for reflection only"?

Well, here, there is some magic. All these classes (Type, FieldInfo, or MethodBase) are actually abstract ones. You are used to runtime implemenRead More...

What really changed between 1.0 and 1.5 #1: Targeting Silverlight and the Compact Framework

Gael Fraiteur — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:39:51 PDT

Setting aside the "exciting new features" of 1.5, there is some fundamental difference between 1.0 and 1.5. Although this difference will hardly be detected by beginners, advanced (PostSharp Core) and even intermediate (advanced PostSharp Laos) ones will surely hit it soon: PostSharp 1.5 is completely independent from System.Reflection.

It has been written that PostSharp Core is built on the top of System.Reflection: this is not true. PostSharp has from the very beginning its own refleRead More...

Using Automatic Properties with XPO Objects

Gael Fraiteur — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:25:55 PDT

It seems that making ORM easier to work with becomes one of the killer apps of PostSharp.

There were already PostSharp aspects for DataObjects.NET, Starcounter and NHibernate. Sean Kearon has now developed a library for Express Persistent Object (XPO).

For more information, please see the CodePlex project page and his blog.

Happy PostSharping!

-gael

PostSharp 1.5 CTP 2 Reloaded

Gael Fraiteur — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:05:22 PDT

There was some high-coverage bug so I had to refresh CTP 2. You have to download it again if you already did it.

-gael

Announcing PostSharp 1.5 CTP 2

Gael Fraiteur — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 03:49:06 PDT

I am pleased to announce I have just released PostSharp 1.5 CTP 2 with exciting improvements over PostSharp 1.5 CTP 1 and of course PostSharp 1.0. Among the things you can be looking forward:

Aspect Inheritance. This is something many of you have longed for. You can now apply an aspect on a (non-sealed) class or a (non-sealed) virtual method and have the aspect automatically applied to all derived classes or methods. The same with interfaces. Since the feature is implemented at the levelRead More...