A great new feature of Visual Studio 2008 is multi-targeting, which allows VS 2008 to compile for .NET 2.0, 3.0, or 3.5 simply by changing a project property. You might be thinking, now I don’t have to keep Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 installed. I can just use Visual Studio 2008 for all my projects! […]
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A few weeks ago I was merrily working away on an application that uses NHibernate to query data from an Oracle database. I didn’t feel like installing a local Oracle instance as typically I do more work against SQL Server. So I develop locally against a SQL Server database and switch to Oracle by changing […]
In a domain model, you will sometimes encounter immutable data – objects that can only be read from a database, but never modified. The question is how to test your persistence layer to ensure that you can read them. One way is to hard code values into your tests and assume that the appropriate rows are […]
Here are the code samples from some recent presentations… Alberta Architect Forum 2007 – Creating Flexible Software Austin .NET User Group – The NHibernate Mafia and the Persistent Ignorant Domain Model Edmonton Code Camp 2007 – Building Applications Using ALT.NET Thanks to everyone for attending the sessions, asking questions, and providing feedback.
The Virtual PC download of Visual Studio 2008 “Orcas” has been great. No install. No chance of corrupting your current Visual Studio 2005 install. It just works and allows you to play with the early bits in a virtual environment. That’s one of the things that virtualized environments excel at. The Virtual PC images were […]
Did you know that you can get Visual Studio Intellisense support when editing NHibernate’s configuration and mapping files?* Simply drop nhibernate-configuration.xsd and nhibernate-mapping.xsd from the NHibernate zip file into: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Xml\Schemas or C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Xml\Schemas Once you’ve got the XML Schemas in the right location, you should see something like this […]
I created a few simple ReSharper templates to make working with NHibernate and Castle ActiveRecord easier. They currently default to SQL Server 2005 because that’s what I do most of my work against. Feel free to customize to your heart’s content. You can grab them from here. Simply import the templates into ReSharper via ReSharper… Options… […]
The ALT.NET Open Space Conference in Austin has come to a close. It was a fantastic experience. I had an opportunity to connect with many people whose books I have read and tools I use. Thanks to everyone who came for sharing their time and knowledge. Given that I’m used to wearing the presenter hat, […]
Scott Guthrie has announced that Microsoft will be releasing the source code and debug symbols (aka PDB files) for the .NET Framework assemblies when they release .NET Framework 3.5 later this year.* Initially this will include the .NET Base Class Libraries (System.IO, System.Collections, etc.), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows). […]
Since I’ll be in Austin for the ALT.NET Open Space Conference early next month, my friend, Jeffrey Palermo, asked me to give a talk at the Austin .NET User Group while I was in town. So without further ado… How does NHibernate enable a persistence ignorant domain model? Why would you want a persistence ignorant domain model? Why […]
