Frank-Leonardo Quednau

Meet DIs local rep: The AbstractContext

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:12:46 GMT

I am having an unhealthy yet energetic and fruitful relation with a close relative of 'the' Dependency Injection (DI) container. She's called AbstractContext and she's been able to cope with all kinds of thorny situations where numerous...(read more)

ASP.NET MVC from scratch

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:01:05 GMT

Yesterday I thought that it would be a good idea to check out ASP.NET MVC (MVC) on my "on-the-edge" rig with Visual Studio 2010 running on Windows 7. It shouldn't have surprised me then, that ASP.NET MVC support is currently unavailable...(read more)

Fashion of the week - Building with Rake

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:01:23 GMT

Here & There I have been seeing people using Ruby's build system rake in their .NET open source projects instead of NAnt or MSBuild. I don't really feel like commenting this fact here, but it is slightly annoying that people expect us to know...(read more)

How much does Linq.Take take?

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:23:47 GMT

I wasn't 100% certain how much the "Take" would take from a list with less elements than the number you want to take. It probably says in the docs, but let me assure you that this test succeeds: [ Test ] public void TakeTakesAsMuchAsThereIs...(read more)

Scary StructureMap configuration expressions Pt.1

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:51:51 GMT

"Most scary StructureMap Configuration Expression"™ so far... ForRequestedType < ISession > ( ) . InterceptConstructionWith ( wcfCachePolicy ) . AddInstances ( instanceExpression => instanceExpression. Conditional...(read more)

Comfortable command line argument parsing

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 21:29:42 GMT

Once in a while you may want to write a command line tool which may have to accept commad line arguments. In comes a nice little bit of source code that is part of the great output of the Mono project. Documentation is available here and the source code...(read more)

cycling through a number range

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:36:30 GMT

What I really wanted to do was to play a round of quakelive. But right now, quakelive is down (well, it's Beta, isn't it?). Quakelive pointed me to their twitter feed . read more...(read more)

Another beacon in a sea of expressions

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:57:43 GMT

A prosaic introduction to the subject of .NET expressions. These were introduced with .NET 3.5 and are featured most prominently in LINQ. Over here I implemented a use case with the aid of expressions. In my current project I am using expressions to be...(read more)

Playing Lotto with LINQ

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:12:16 GMT

You know, they are once again going craazy in Germany - The Lotto jackpot has swollen to a whopping 35 million. That's a lot of money, certainly enough to devote some of my time to the subject. read more...(read more)

Dependency Injection is not locating services

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:23:13 GMT

The DI container StructureMap has been coming along nicely lately, with version 2.5.1 available as download . I have been following closely its recent development, since it is providing some core object wiring functionality to my current project. A rather...(read more)

Iterators do [1..]

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:00:14 GMT

The following picture probably doesn't surprise you But as you can see in what is commented out, you can indeed e.g. do DataSource. Take ( 10 ) . ToList Such an iterator then has quite a similarity to Haskell's [1..], the infinite list...(read more)

Haven't digested C#3? Brace yourself for V4!

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:37:45 GMT

After Microsoft's PDC, a whole host of C# 4.0 infos are coming up. Many months ago we were already allowed to peek at Hejlsberg & Team sitting in an old meeting room, talking about what C# 4.0 would be all about (I have lost the link but you here's...(read more)

NHibernate's ISession, scoped for a single WCF-call

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:52:10 GMT

I am working at a project that uses the .NET 3.5 communication stack between client & server (WCF) and they have decided to be Domain driven. In this case NHibernate (NH) is the persistence framework of choice. The abstraction chosen for persistence...(read more)

Spoiled with Dependency Injection

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:19:43 GMT

There are a number of reasons why Dependency Injection is a good thing, and many people of high esteem have written about it. Hopefully only those developers completely cut off from modern-day communications are left with a good excuse not to know about...(read more)

Don't be afraid of your csproj-Files (III): We have a condition

realfiction - TrivadisContent — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:22:23 GMT

Project references Consider the following situation: You want to test an application that uses plugins. The dependencies look as such: read more...(read more)