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For the last 6 months I’ve been leading a small team to deliver a “best of breed” ecommerce retail site, based on ASP.NET MVC, Sharp Architecture, NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, Spark View Engine, N2CMS, Castle Windsor, xVal Framework, AutoMapper, PostSharp, Gallio / MBUnit / DevelopWithPassion.bdd, Solr and SolrNet. We delivered it in 10 x 2 week ...

Earlier in the year when I was doing some research into writing my own LINQ Provider I stumbled across a great listing of LINQ Providers, two entries looked very interesting; the first was LINQ to RDF(Semantic Web), the second was LINQ to Excel. The latter caught my attention as it was a very simple implementation of a LINQ Provider, which ...

If you are building and deploying public facing web applications, security has to be one of your key consideration; ensure that you create a security threat model of your application to highlight the flow of data in your application and the possible weak points (Microsoft have a useful tool called Microsoft Security Assessment Tool which can ...

On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Visual Studio, the solution looks like: Solution ‘MyApp’ +---Data |   ...

As I mentioned in my last post I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints, one of the problems I encountered was trying to come up with a generic, reusable way of working with T4 Templates (T4 is the used by Blueprints for all code generation as T4  is now integrated into Visual Studio 2008) to generate the code fragments. I created ...

I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints for the last couple of weeks, to see if it's a suitable deployment vector for some of our reusable IP and Engineering Practices. Blueprints is part of the Software Factories vision, it evolves and includes the great work already done with the Guidance Automation Toolkit, the DSL Tools and Visual Studio ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  In my previous post about StyleCop for ReSharper I said that I'd be posting updates about the tool to my personal blog rather than my EMC Consulting blog, but unfortunately there was a hardware failure on the server that hosts my personal blog and I've not had a chance to get things ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete.  A huge amount of work has been done over the last month since the previous release. We've added a new Quick Fix and Code Clean-Up Module frameworks which have helped us develop over 42 new fixes in addition to the 21 Quick Fixes we produced in the previous release. We've also given ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...

EDIT: I became a SharpFellow and so this blog post has moved   The JetBrains team have been working hard at getting functionality and bug fixes into version 4.0 of ReSharper.  I'm very excited to see that it's finally reached RTM status and now fully supports Visual Studio 2008 and all the C# 3.0 goodness!  Go get it ...