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My Silverlight 4 Reference Architecture: Commanding

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<p $1=”$1”></p> <p $1=”$1”>After sharing my thoughts on unit testing in Silverlight and the combination of NHibernate and WCF Data Services, it is time to discuss the updated version of the Silverlight reference architecture from one of my posts of last year. To put the discu...

October 8, 2010

Getting more out of unit testing in Silverlight

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As I already mentioned in my previous post, we're building a line-of-business app using Silverlight 4 and WCF Data Services. I really think Silverlight is great for those kind of systems, but since it is based on a different run-time as the full .NET framework, you may wonder what you'll run into...

September 24, 2010

Silverlight Cookbook: WCF Data Services and NHibernate

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<p $1=”$1”></p> <p $1=”$1”></p> <p $1=”$1”></p> <p $1=”$1”></p> <p $1=”$1”></p> <p>This post is part of a series of blog posts detailing various aspects of the Silverlight Cookbook, an initiative to demonstrate prope...

September 20, 2010

Commercial support for the C# 3.0/4.0 Coding Guidelines

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A few weeks ago I had a chat with Paul Jansen, CEO of a small Eindhoven-based company named Tiobe. You might indirectly know Tiobe for its programming language index and their commercial code checker ClockSharp. But they have also been hosting a C# Coding Standard I co-wrote for Philips Medical S...

September 13, 2010

The AI of ReSharper

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I was just typing this… …when ReSharper 5 suggested its “Loop can be converted into LINQ-expression”: <p>You gotta love this!</p>

September 2, 2010

Fluent Assertions 1.2.3 released

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After a week of testing in some of our projects, it is time to remove the beta marker from release 1.2.3 of our fluent assertion framework, Fluent Assertions. It’s just a small release, as was the previous one, but it still adds some nice additions requested by the community. This is the official...

August 27, 2010