Posts about Dev

Simplified WCF services

Being an old C++ developer I’ve always found myself doing everything by myself from the bottom and up. I’ve always created my own DALs, socket handling etc. I…

Autofac, starting components

Some of my components need to be started after all of them have been created. This is quite easy to solve with Autofac. The components simply implement this…

NLog configuration

I’ve switched from my own logging framework to NLog. NLog seems quite flexible, is under active development and suits my needs perfectly. I’m logging both to…

Simplified Autofac registrations

I’m building an application which will monitor other applications (memory usage, starting them if they crash etc.). I’m trying to stop re-inventing the wheel…

Introducing a validation library

I’ve made a validation library which is focusing on model validation. Why another one when there are a few good ones like EntLib Validation Application Block…

Extension methods to simplify database handling

Two extension methods used to simplify database handling.

Everyone knows what it is, but no one has used it?

I must confess that I’ve never used the Northwind database, despite having developed with Visual Studio for more than 10 years.