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Category Archives: Computers and Internet
Referencing a .NET assembly in a compile time safe manner
If you need to provide a System.Reflection.Assembly instance to an API [1], there are several mechanisms for doing so. They roughly split into two camps: Run-time assembly loading Assemblies known at compile time The run-time assembly loading includes scenarios such … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet
Tagged .NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebApi, Assembly Loading, Autofac, C#, System.Reflection.Assembly
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Entity Framework Performance Tip for Creating Entities
This tip is applicable if you’re using Entity Framework Code First with dynamic proxies and you have a lot of objects attached to your context, for whatever reason (e.g. within a batch job). The first thing to note is that … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet
Tagged .NET, DetectChanges, Dynamic Proxies, Entity Framework
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Tightening Injected Dependencies on Entity Framework
Dependency injection as a pattern provides a lot of useful nudges to get you to produce easily readable and maintainable code. One way in which it does this is to make dependencies explicit so you can see exactly what services a … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, laZook
Tagged .NET, Autofac, Code First, DbContext, Entity Framework, IDbSet, laZook, Unit of Work
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laZook Microstore
Six months ago I joined a team working on a new start-up called laZook. It’s an online distributor, providing brands with a single route to many existing eCommerce channels and some that we’re helping to develop from scratch. We handle … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, laZook, Personal
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Quartz.net persistent job store LAST_MODIFIED_TIME issue
I’m playing around with Quartz.net and adding support for a persistent job store via the ADO.NET Job Store. As per the recommendation, I’m instructing the job store to persist job parameters in plain text rather than BLOBs, using the configuration: <add key=”quartz.jobStore.useProperties” … Continue reading
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Installing Balanced Data Distributor on SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
Edit: This post refers to an older version of the BDD installer. As per JasonH’s comment below, Microsoft has released a new installation package which should hopefully fix the installation bug. It can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=4123 Original post: Microsoft’s Balanced Data … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, SQL Server
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Deploying ASP.NET MVC 3 Razor – Missing System.Web.Helpers (and others)
Last week I was racing against time to complete a QA deployment of an ASP.NET MVC 3 application that uses the Razor view engine. The deployment was to a clean Windows Server 2008 R2 box. I had already completed the … Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet
Tagged ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor, Visual Studio, Web Development, WebDeploy
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A SPDY end to web site content sharding?
With the advent of Google’s SPDY improvements to the HTTP protocol, could we see an end in sight to the practice of sharding content on web sites? In the news today (from The Register) Google report a 15% increase in … Continue reading
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EU Cookies Directive & eCommerce Analytics
Article 66 of this set of directives, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:337:0011:0036:En:PDF, from the Official Journal of the European Union states that: “Third parties may wish to store information on the equipment of a user, or gain access to information already stored, for a … Continue reading
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Solid State Hard Drives
Over the years I’ve built up a few PCs by researching and buying components then stitching them all together. I always strived for the highest performing computer I could buy without breaking the bank. Recently I discovered that the single … Continue reading
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