Code rant

This is a continuation of my Task Parallel Library investigations. Yesterday I wrote about using TPL with MVC . Say we have a number of a...

The new NHibernate Linq provider provides eager fetching out of the box. Here’s how you do it: var customers = session.Query<Custome...

With my current clients I'm building an MVC Framework application using NHibernate. I love NHibernate. Like all the best frameworks it j...

LINQ has revolutionised the way we do data access. Being able to fluently describe queries in C# means that you never have to write a single...

This follows part 1 where I create a custom data context and part 2 where I create a client application to talk to it. For your custom d...

In part 1 I showed how to create a simple in-memory custom data context for ADO.NET Data Services. Creating a managed client is also very s...

Yesterday I wrote a quick overview of ADO.NET Data Services . We saw how it exposes a RESTfull API on top of any IQueryable<T> data so...

I thought it would be nice to be able to produce a CSV file by doing something like this: string ordersCsv = orderRepository.GetAll().Sele...

Mixins are a language idea similar to multiple inheritance, but rather than extending a class a mixin works by defining an interface plus v...

27th March 2009. It's now a year since I wrote this post. Thanks to some comments by Janus2007 I've realised that it needs updating....

I'm currently reading the excellent Linq in Action by Marguerie, Eichert and Wooley. It's great exposition of all things Linq an...

One of the things I like about Ruby is the range operator. In most C style languages in order to create a list of  numbers you would usually...