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When you're writing a unit test to verify that an exception is thrown and you want to check the content of the error message, the ExpectionException attribute doesn't do it. This code (which you see a lot): [ TestMethod ] [ ExpectedException ( typeof ( ValidationException ), "Postcode must...

Yes, all unhandled exceptions will kill the IIS worker process, but in WCF you can tag an IErrorHandler onto your service behavior and all unhandled exceptions will be neatly taken care of. Unless that exception is thrown from a factory task, in which case the error handler is bypassed and the worker...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] I've had a need on a couple of projects for a monitoring system to record progress of a long-running transaction. Enter Heartbeat - a library which does just that. It's a project of mine on github: Heartbeat progress monitor . The typical use...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] Web.config transformation is a simple and powerful inclusion in .NET 4.0 for generating configuration files for different environments. It's a templated match-and replace, and you can put together a homegrown alternative with T4 and some scripting...

Last week I spent some time setting up Windows Server AppFabric Cache in anticipation of additional tasks this week.  The first task is configuring an ASP.NET web application to use Windows Server AppFabric Caching for the Session State Provider.  This allows the web application to spread session...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] Using Parallel Extensions you can reduce loop execution time by 95%. Which, if you're evaluating .NET 4.0 and VS 2010, should be a cinching argument*. The Parallel Extensions library includes an abundance of features for fine-grained control over...

[Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/EltonStoneman ] Overview Ignoring the fashion, I still make a lot of use of DALs – typically when inheriting a codebase with an established database schema which is full of tried and trusted stored procedures. In the DAL a collection of base classes have all the scaffolding...

As Meagon announced over on her blog , I’m heading to the SoCal Code Camp this weekend two give a few of my favorite talks in sunny California: Why you need some REST 12:15 PM - Saturday, January 30, 2010 Location: UH 319 REST is quickly becoming the default architectural style for services in the cloud...

I’ll be doing a talk on AppFabric at the Swedish .NET User Group tomorrow at 6 pm in Stockholm hosted at Informator. Others will talk about other interesting topics from PDC as well. More info (in swedish) and sign-up at http://pdc2009afterparty.eventbrite.com/

Today I was at the session WCF 4.0 Building WCF Service with WF in .NET 4.0 Many new and very interesting features are being built into WCF & WF 4.0. Nowadays in WF it's kind of challenging to make a choice between synchronous and a-synchronous: Synchronous = Simple to author and maintain performs...

I'm now in the session on the PDC 2008 : WF 4.0 A first look. Just laying on my chair the leaflet: .NET Framework 4.0 Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation In that leaflet there was a very nice announcement: Windows Server Dublin . What's Windows Server Dublin? "Simplified...