http://rajanadar.com life's good when you relax a BIT Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:50:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en with the use of LINQ and Entity Framework, I haven't been writing much ADO.NET code to for the Data Access layer. Until recently, when one of my projects in the solution is still .NET 2.0 based, with the standard ADO.NET Data Access. its been some time, since I saw the ... http://rajanadar.com/2009/02/cnet-and-mysql/ i love the features which creep into an API. and the .NET framework classes grow richer and richer. my latest random activity has been to develop User controls (blog rolls, rss widgets) in .NET 3.5. to think of it, one can easily write an RSS reader control, with inline commenting feature ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/12/rss-and-atom-api/ my friend was working on certificate based WCF transport messages. she prototyped a demo, and was testing it out. she kept on hitting the following exception: Found multiple X.509 certificates using the following search criteria: StoreName 'My', StoreLocation 'LocalMachine', FindType 'FindBySubjectName', FindValue ''. Provide a more specific find value. the error message could ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/07/wcf-certificates-event-logs-and-silly-security-exceptions/ so in my last post, I wrote about the Linq compiled queries syntax, before diving into its use. this post is about the usage of compiled queries. every time, a Linq Query is executed (accessed), the expressions tree/Linq query is translated into its equivalent SQL/data source query and the results are ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/06/linq-compiled-queries-2-of-2/ I wanted to blog about Compiled queries in LINQ in this post. However, before doing that, I realized it would be good if I wrote something about the foundation on which the Compiled Query syntax is built. This is because the call to a Compiled Linq Query involves calling the Compile() ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/06/linq-compiled-queries-1-of-2/  When I started with the terms, I was a bit confused on the order/meaning of the following in the software release life cycle: alpha, beta, gamma, CTP, RTM, RTW, RC, GA, Gold, Box Copy etc... I decided to get clear on these terms with the help of my friend, Wiki. So completely ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/06/software-life-cycle-stages/ as explained in my previous post, we can easily test the public methods of a class. At the end of that blog, I mentioned about private accessors. this post explains that cool feature. assume we have a class as follows:   public class BusinessObject { private const int MagicFactor = 18; ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/06/vsts-testing-private-members-accessors/ No dev shall be held to answer for a bug, or otherwise infamous defect, unless on a triage or request of a VP, except in cases arising in the penultimate or ultimate releases, or in a Red Alert, when in actual service in time of Bug War or Job Security; ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/06/plead-the-friendly-dev-5th/ as you know, VS introduced its own unit testing framework, inbuilt for TDD. there are some very good things I like about it. it removes the dependency from any external unit testing libraries like NUnit. (though NUnit was worth all its bits) it is part of the build process and we can ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/05/vs-testing-suite-intro/ a small SQL snippet to generate a unique alphanumeric key. you have to feed in an existing key value and the script will give you the next value. i had written this snippet way back, for a legacy application in which a simple GUID or auto-incrementing big ineteger could not be ... http://rajanadar.com/2008/05/sql-alphanumeric-unique-keys/