Author Archives: david

CI 2

Posted on November 25, 2014 by david

End result? For a small team, using the service provided by the likes of Github or Bitbucket provide ample issue reporting and project wiki features with much less support required. I guess you could outsource the actual continuous build to … Continue reading →

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CI

Posted on October 20, 2014 by david

Well, time to get things done. I’ve a product to build and I need a sensible environment to build it in. I’m going to run some VMs on my Mac Pro for the less exciting parts of the environment. So … Continue reading →

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The remote certificate is invalid according to the validation procedure wcf

Posted on November 11, 2013 by david

Sometimes the Microsoft tools are too clever for their own good. We have a WCF service which we wanted to move to SSL. The problem was: having changed the WCF security configuration to Transport, and obtaining and configuring a certificate … Continue reading →

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Duplicate Key Exception

Posted on October 17, 2013 by david

Entity Framework throws exceptions from the DbContext’s SaveChanges method if there is a constraint violation in the database. If you have a property marked as invariant w.r.t. concurrency, that too will raise an exception at this point (a DbUpdateConcurrencyException Exception. … Continue reading →

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Glimpse

Posted on October 14, 2013 by david

That turned out to be a profitable search. A bug that suggested that there was a routing configuration issue in a .Net MVC app. I was looking for a way to troubleshoot the issue and I came across this: Glimpse … Continue reading →

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SignalR

Posted on October 3, 2013 by david

Wow. I just looked at Signalr again… Just added the Git package to a web application, added the git package for the stock ticker example, fixed the bug on the stockticker html page that referenced the wrong version of the … Continue reading →

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Silverlight HyperlinkButton Background Colour

Posted on May 24, 2013 by david

Oh dear – I think I over thought this one. To cut a long story short, a client app I was maintaining had a top level menu composed of HyperlinkButtons. The requested change would involve a proliferation of these controls. … Continue reading →

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Architecture : Entity Framework

Posted on May 6, 2013 by david

I’ve had an extensive opportunity to play with entity framework. Here are my few thoughts. Code first does work reasonably well if you are starting from scratch, but managing the release of vital enterprise applications, which require care around the DB become … Continue reading →

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Architecture : Implementing IOC

Posted on May 6, 2013 by david

I’m guessing this is obvious to most of you, but it would be good to get some comments. Most IOC examples I have seen tend to be kind of trivial, it’s easy to expose the required dependent as a property … Continue reading →

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Moving Entity Diagrams in Entity Framework

Posted on May 6, 2013 by david

I had a project with a .EDMX in it. I had matching classes and stuff in another project that had started out as a code first development. I copied the .EDMX to the new project and lo there was the … Continue reading →

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