http://www.orb.com – this is a product that allows sharing of media remotely.

// The following is a simple example of event handlers without having to declare new’s 

using System;

namespace DelegateConsole
{
    public class SimpleMaths
    {
        public delegate void MathsMessage(string msg);
        public event MathsMessage ComputationFinished;

        public int Add(int x, int y)
        {
            ComputationFinished(“Adding Complete”);
            return x + y;
        }
        public int Subtract(int x, int y)
        {
            ComputationFinished(“Subtracting Complete”);
            return x – y;       
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            SimpleMaths s = new SimpleMaths();
            // Method group conversion – almost a delphi event handler
            s.ComputationFinished += ComputationFinishedHandler;
            Console.WriteLine(“10 + 10 is {0}”,s.Add(10,10));
            Console.ReadLine();
        }

        static void ComputationFinishedHandler(string msg)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(msg);
        }
    }
}

This is a great list of Open Source C# projects.

Here is a useful article on NHibernate.

Part 2

Part 3

I am wondering if NHibernate can be used with stored procedures.

O/R Mapping people seem to avoid them to solve prortability issues.

However SP’s do provide a great level of security and abstraction.

Here is the main NHibernate distribution.

 

I am investigating the use of CSLA 2.

How complex is this to use out of the box and can it be combined with the Castle Project?

So far I have downloaded the source from. The source supplied builds as is.

I only have the CSLA 1 book and am trying to see if I can get CSLA 2 to work using just that.

First step is to use VS.NET to create a database and add some tables.

VS 2005 Rant 

The VS.NET IDE allows the creation of a database and adding tables.

It will refuse to rename rows and can only change datatypes according to the underlying db rules (why can’t it remove and reinsert a column?)

 I am now entering the stored procedures for the Product Tracker application.

They seem to be very simplistic with no error handling or auditing (but this is a demo application).

The joins are not very explict sometimes being of the form SELECT A, B FROM FOO, BAR WHERE …

I can see why Kathleen Dollard decided to use this as a basis for her code generation tools.

These are intrisically generatable stored procedures – compare to those that I have been used to with integrated error handling anf auditing. 

Microsoft have finally learnt about TDD.

A year or so ago they had an article trying to claim a process of TDD that invloved generating the tests from the code.

They rapidly pulled the article as it clearly showed that they did not get the idea at all. 

The problem with their suggestion is that it involves Visual Studio Team System which is a bit of a sledgehammer compared to say NUnit and CruiseControl.NET which are far more mature products.

 

This is the tool that integrates NUnit into Visual  Studio.NET

CruiseControl.net can be used with PVCS using this.

The wonderful XYNTService application is an application that allows you to turn commandline utilties into NT Services.

This is where you can get the subversion version control software. This includes svnserve which needs to be run from the command-line.

These two make an ideal pair allowing the subversion server to be run as a stand-alone service.