I'm currently working on an application which uses reflection to create a generic UI. Therefore I was interested in the performance impact of reflection. In this post I will do a comparison between the various possibilities to access a property.
This week Daniel Lang published an interesting article about unnecessary overhead in simple applications.
In a nutshell he proposes an architecture called "Poor-mans CQRS". In his sample he uses an ASP.NET MVC application. The controllers retrieve their required data directly from the database (Query), and updates are performed in service layer (Command).
In this post I will provide a (simple) application, which is based on the Entity Framework. It shows the principle and explains how unit tests can be written without querying a real database.
In this post I will do a performance comparison of the most popular IoC containers.
Of course performance is not the only criteria when choosing a container for a project. Perhaps you need features like interception, then not all containers are suited. But if the container is "only" used for wiring up dependencies, why not choose the fastest one?
Just some days ago, a new code coverage tool was released for the first time. It's called OpenCover. Shaun Wilde created this tool, since PartCover 4 has some issues that are difficult to resolve with the current code base. He describes some of them on his blog.
In this post I will do a comparison between OpenCover and PartCover and show how these tools can be used to get the coverage of unit tests.
Four years ago I wrote one of my first WPF applications. It was named 'BackUp' and enabled you to keep directories in sync (similiar to Microsoft's SyncToy).
Actually I learned a lot of the WPF stack by creating this application, but since I did use code behind instead of the MVVM pattern, it was a good occasion for refactoring the code and applying a new UI.
In this post I will present the new Metro UI and describe my experience in using event-based components for the synchronization workflow.
Since Windows Azure is becoming more popular every day, it's time to get started with Azure development.
In this post I will provide an graphical overview of the various features and services of Windows Azure. Moreover I will provide some links to useful resources, which might help you to get started.
For a long time I have been using Outlook to manage my contacts and appointments. I always synchronized my mobile phone with Outlook. After buying an Android device things have changed.
Now I use Google Contacts and Google Calendar to manage my contacts and appointments. Since I still use Outlook I need an easy way to synchronize Google with Outlook. Google provides GoogleCalendarSync to synchronize your calendar, but synchronizing contacts is only available for business customers.
In this post I will provide an Outlook addin which imports your Google contacts to Outlook.
About one year ago a created a blog engine which was based on ASP.NET MVC 1. Since then technologies have evolved. When ASP.NET MVC 3 was released, I decided to update my blog engine to use the new RazorViewEngine. Instead of MSSQL Express I use Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 together with the new Entity Framework 'Code First' approach.
This is the personal blog of Daniel Palme sharing his thoughts on software development.