I use Visual Studio 2010 on a daily basis, and I must say that the overall experience is far from good: The find dialog has some really weird and annoying resizing issues. Sometimes find text simply stops working, never returning any result. Ev[...]

What strategies do I know of on how to test your code depending on a database? Using TransactionScope so that you can roll back any changes done by tests. Setting up a fresh database with the same schema. Using NHibernate SchemaExport(cfg).Execute to ex[...]

A discussion that crops up from time to time is whether primary keys should be UUIDs or simple auto-incrementing integers. There are pros and cons on both sides. UUIDs provide universal uniqueness which allows data to be stored across multiple databases, [...]

Keep solutions simple and think about your deliverables Chad Myers at Los Techies tries to get a discussion about why it's bad to have to many projects:Project anti-pattern: Many projects in a Visual Studio Solution File Some of the consideration is abou[...]

So I’ve been using Fluent NHibernate for a short while now. Initially I had to overcome some minor challenges, but since I got those out of the way it’s been pretty smooth sailing. One thing that stands out, which required more tinkering and timeshare tha[...]

You use mocks when you want to test how the code interacts with the mocked objekts. If you care mostly about the end result, the final state, then it's easier and less brittle to use fakes.

Listening to herding code on fluent migrator is quite interesting. You could read Getting started with fluent migrator. If you feel the need to contribute there is fluent migrator on github.

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Today we are happy to announce the release of a new extension for WebSharper: DHTMLX Touch. This library provides a complete set of UI widgets, alongside a number of tools to seamlessly connect them to application data, resulting in web applications with [...]