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CSLA

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CSLA – free anti-obsolescence toolkit

Image via Wikipedia Rocky Lhotka recently announced another CSLA upgrade.  One of the features in this release is support for data annotations that work in both WinForms and SilverLight.  Yesterday, Rocky blogged about this implementation (Leveraging data annotation attributes in CSLA .NET). While this feature is pretty cool all by itself, it’s easy to miss [...]

public class SubSonic3: IEnjoyable

A couple of years ago, I heard about a data-layer code generation tool called SubSonic.  At the time, there was a fair bit of confusion about how it was to be categorized – it wasn’t really an ORM, after all.  In fact, it was sort of a C# version of Ruby-On-Rails‘ ActiveRecord.  I played with [...]

Great post on Generics

If you’re not comfortable using C# Generics in your code, be sure to check out this great article by Karl Seguin.  It’s an easy read, and it covers all the important ideas you’ll need to get your head wrapped around these things. I’ve mentioned Generics a couple times on this blog – they’ve been a [...]

Working with Rocky Lhotka’s CSLA Framework

csla_logo1_42 I recently wrapped up development of a new application using Rocky Lhotka’s CSLA Framework, and I really liked it a lot.  I think there’s a fair bit of mis-information and confusion circulating about this software, so while it’s all fresh in my memory, I threw together some notes on the things that worked well, and the ones that didn’t work so well, too.