One thing that annoys me when reading other people’s C# or VB.NET code is the use of regions. The main reason why anyone should wrap a piece of code inside a region is that there is something inside that they don’t want you to see. Visual Studio’s default behavior is, as you know, to collapse [...]
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Don’t use Regions in .NET
Posted by pwigle on August 23, 2011
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/dont-use-regions-in-net/
First contact with Refinery CMS
I am about to finish my first CMS project based on the open source Ruby on Rails based CMS framework Refinery. It has been a pleasure to work with it and I will explain why in this post. I have some previous experience with the commercial CMS product EPiServer. It is a very polished product [...]
Posted by pwigle on June 13, 2011
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/first-contact-with-refinery-cms/
Small Projects are no Excuse for Sloppy Process
In the past few years I have been involved in a few small development projects. By small I mean a project with two or maybe three developers and a timeframe of four to eight weeks. Some of the projects have been very successful and others have been more troubled. In retrospect I found that the [...]
Posted by pwigle on February 1, 2011
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/small-projects-are-no-excuse-for-sloppy-process/
Migrating from Visual SourceSafe to Mercurial
If your organization use Microsoft SourceSafe as your version control tool, there are several reasons to stop doing that as pointed out in these blog posts: Visual SourceSafe Version Control: Unsafe at any Speed? Visual SourceSafe: Microsoft’s Source Destruction System Which version control system should you use instead? Well, there are a lot of tools [...]
Posted by pwigle on December 3, 2010
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/migrating-from-visual-sourcesafe-to-mercurial/
NHibernate Session Handling Revisited
In an old blog post I described how you can implement the Open Session in View pattern using Contextual Sessions. Since then I have discovered even easier way to handle the NHibernate sessions in an ASP.NET web application. The approach I have used recently is the one proposed by Ayende in this blog post. His [...]
Posted by pwigle on September 16, 2010
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/nhibernate-session-handling-revisited/
Code Metrics Statistics with TeamCity
Code metrics can be a very useful tool for monitoring some aspects of code quality. To get the most out of it you need to calculate the metrics on a regular basis in order to find trends. Code quality tend to go down during intense phases of a development project and also when a product [...]
Posted by pwigle on December 11, 2009
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2009/12/11/code-metrics-statistics-with-team-city/
Test-Driven Developers have more fun
I started using TDD a couple of months ago and what strikes me now is how much more fun it is to develop in this radically new way. There are several reasons for this. A common frustration when developing in the traditional way is that the progress is not immediately visible. This is particularly true [...]
Posted by pwigle on December 19, 2008
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/test-driven-developers-have-more-fun/
NHibernate Session handling in ASP.NET – the easy way
EDIT: Take a look at a new blog post of mine on this subject. When I first started using the popular ORM framework NHibernate, I was a bit confused about the best way to manage NHibernate sessions in a web application. The official documentation did not provide much guidance, but I did find out that [...]
Posted by pwigle on November 21, 2008
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/nhibernate-session-handling-in-aspnet-the-easy-way/
Deploying ASP.NET Web Applications using NAnt
We have started implementing Contiuous Integration at our company. We began with Cruise Control.NET but have decided to try with TeamCity instead. One thing that we would like to do is to deploy ASP.NET web applications as part of our Continuous Integration process. We use the Web Application Project template in Visual Studio. One problem [...]
Posted by pwigle on November 21, 2008
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/deploying-aspnet-web-applications-using-nant/
Here is my blog
After having thought about it for a long time, I finally decided to start my own blog. I will blog about things that are related to my work as a .NET developer, such as: Solutions to technical problems that I have encountered Technical books, blog posts and articles I have read Reports from conferences and [...]
Posted by pwigle on November 21, 2008
http://pwigle.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/here-is-my-blog/
