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Ever since I started using Caliburn.Micro I was puzzled why the EventAggregator used an interface in the ViewModel signature, like this public class ShellViewModel : Screen, IShell, IHandle<YourMessageOne>, IHandle<YourMessageTwo>{} Agreed, the documentation is clear, in that you can Cast to see if the view model supports messaging, and if so automatically subscribe. But is that the only advantage? In the few EventAggregators I describe here it’s the only one using this technique. Anyway, a quick search showed that I was…

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This time all went very smoothly. Storage of post attachments is built in, and BlogML worked like a dream…Lets hope the testing goes smoothly too! File attachments via the new File Manager and SQL tables works, but alas the link into the post does not. So you won’t be able to access this file.   It does now because I’ve manually changed the link because urlrewriting is not working. TestTextFile.txt (65.00 bytes) TestTextFile.txt (65.00 bytes)

Am I going to be lucky…..This blog was reporting that the transaction log was full and nothing could be posted. As with anything to do with SQL Server, there is a huge amount of documentation to plough through and Google searches didn’t seem to show up a solution quickly. I couldn’t even backup the database, as that was what was showing me the error message. So I tried the Import and Export Data tool. This is a great tool just…

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nHydrateis a model first ORM code generator on codeplex, and can be used to generate Entity Framework DAL layer. But unlike the designer in Visual Studio it is text based, but this is not a disadvantage as nHydrate offers greater features such as built in row auditing and incremental database management. As any development team knows version 1 of your application is easy, but version 2 is likely to have database schema changes. The incremental database management keeps a track…

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  The Entity Framework 4 has superb  features for custom code generation and there are now quite a few different T4 code generators being released. You can see them easily in VS2010 Extension Manager, and include the ADO.NET C# POCO and C# Web Site POCO Entity Generators and the one I particularly like, Rob Hallett’s method of Unit testing Entity Framework classes, see  http://blogofrab.blogspot.com/2010/08/unit-testing-entity-framework-40.html To start writing your own generator, a Entity Framework Starter Kit is available, as documented here…

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Here’s an item I need to blog about because in a few months I will have forgotten the details. First, the verbosity of Visual Studio MSBuild messages. Go to Tools > Options > Project and Solutions > Build and Run. Set the build output verbosity to Normal. Would appear that the VS install default is Minimal. Now you’ve done that, you can edit your csproj file to add some custom targets where you’ll actually see any messages in the output…

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I’ve been looking at the Caliburn Micro Framework for a new WPF desktop application I need to write. This app is to replace another I wrote in 2006 using the Composite Application Block. So I was reviewing some of the more recent frameworks such as Prism and discovered both Caliburn and Caliburn Micro on Codeplex. Caliburn Micro is a very lightweight framework for helping you build MVVM applications by handling all the plumbing between the View and the ViewModel. It…

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I’ve decided to try a hosted version control solution for a new private software project, instead of the local file based solution I have presently. My first criterion is that private project hosting is available, and for convenience multiple projects should be possible. Which version control system was not particularly important but likely to be SVN, and of course I use TortoiseSVNon my PC. Google is of course the first stop in the search for the hosting, and it quickly…

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I have been aware for some time about URL Rewriting on Apache via a .htaccess file. But recently working with Umbraco I discovered that version 4 incorporated a rewriting library to enable its use in virtual directories and provide friendly URLs, http://www.urlrewriting.net/149/en/home.html.   Some further research showed quite a number of rewriting libraries for IIS using ISAPI or HTTPModules:- http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrite/ http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com/ http://iirf.codeplex.com/ and Brendan Kowitz makes some interesting points in a 2006 blog entries, here. What was more surprising was that…

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