I am going to show how I initialize the Windsor container in web applications. Keep in mind, there are 100 ways to do this; this is the method I chose based on experiences while working with Windsor. Read more

In previous articles, I discussed class dependencies, interfaces, and concrete implementations. This article will cover the very basics of setting up Castle Project's Windsor to do dependency injection from a configuration file.
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In a previous article, I discussed the benefits of passing interfaces as parameters to a method instead of using concrete classes. Now I’m going to discuss other ways in which using interfaces can help future-proof your code, make it testable, and more extensible. Read more

The number of times I have run into the following problem is astounding. I need to bind a list of complex/nested objects (those that contain other objects) to a gridview and show the values of nested objects. For example, let's say I have the following Customer class which contains a State object that holds information about in which state the customer lives. Read more

Judging from the comments section (lack there of), I am certain that no one has noticed my recent bombardment of comment spam. I've been fighting it by deleting rows from the database until I had time to implement some type of solution to combat the spam. Today, I finally made the time to develop a captcha implementation for the site. It is not fully complete as I want to add in support for disabled javascript; however, I thought I would share the solution anyways. Read more

Today, I ran into a situation where I needed to proper case a string for display purposes. After a little research on Google, I found a few snippets and put them together to make this extension method... Read more

When designing architectures in .NET, I frequently use interfaces for parameter types in my method signatures. This post will help to explain why I choose to do this and the benefits of coding in this manner.

Let's just say that you had the following two methods implemented in your data-access layer. The first calls the database and returns a result set to the SqlDataReader. The second method fills the a list of articles by iterating through the result set in the SqlDataReader and adding an article to the list for each row in the result set. Read more

Going forward, I will continue to post about useful extension methods that I reuse frequently. Today, I will be talking about IsNullOrEmpty and how we can use this extension method to write less code when dealing with lists.

Frequently, my service methods return lists of things (IList<T>). When these lists are returned, I check to ensure that they are not null and that they have at least one item (count > 0). After seeing this snippet duplicated throughout my code, I decided to pull it into an extension method to reduce the repetition (see DRY). Read more

In the course of experimenting with the new MVC release for .Net, I stumbled across a post on the ASP forums where someone was explaining his approach to architecture using MVC. In reading further, I found that he was using dependency injection; a reusable design pattern presumably brought to .Net from Java world. Read more

This is the typical post in which I state my excitement to finally join the blogging community. In the future, I plan on covering topics from all aspects of technology. My expertise is in the .Net Framework and related technologies, so expect much from that realm. Read more