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A peek into Ordina’s kitchen

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Ordina is well known for its DaVinci platform and now offers you a chance to peek into our kitchen to see how we develop professional enterprise applications. You’ll get a chance to understand our development process, how we employ UML for generation purposes, and you can join a presentation on D...

May 10, 2006

Windows Communication Foundation at a glance

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Check out this article published on TheServerSide.net. It provides a tip of the iceberg on what you can do with WCF. For those who don’t have a clue of what I’m talking about, WCF is Microsoft’s attempt to unite all their communication protocols into one uniform communication stack. On turn, this...

May 10, 2006

Hands-on with NHiberate

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You may have heard of NHiberate, the .NET variant of the famous Hibernate product, and you may understand the concept of an Object-Relational Mapper. But you may not have a clear picture of what it really can and does. Justin Gehtland published an article on TheServerSide.net that gives a quick i...

May 10, 2006

The Liskov Substitution Principle

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As Ordina is working on new C# 2.0 coding guidelines, last week I had a discussion with a colleague on object-oriented design. One important principle is the Liskov Substitution Principle which in a C# context is often written as “methods that use references to base classes must be able to use ob...

May 4, 2006

Copying & Pasting

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While reading this article, I ran into two must-have tools which should have been part of Visual Studio from the beginning. First of all, Smart Paster is a handy tool for pasting a chunk of text into a source file in various nicely formatted formats. Secondly, Copy Source As HTML allows you to co...

May 1, 2006

Moving to Software Factories

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You may have heard of Software Factories already, but failed to grasp the actual meaning of it. This two-pager should help to understand the fundamental ideas behind Software Factories and the way Microsoft and Ordina deal with them.

April 24, 2006