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Always build a services tier (layer) even if you don’t think you may need it
There is a lot of debate on the prevalence of the service layer (web services tier) – in almost every app (web or non web) built today. Martin Fowler also…
IE compatibility testing–Internet explorer
I tried various tools including IE developer tools (in IE 11) – and IE Tester. These are all desktop based – and require software downloads and local testing. Someone pointed…
IIS app pool using 4.5 framework
Is your web app (deployed on IIS) using framework ? How do you tell?Just looking at the framework column (for the specific app pool) in IIS will show you (since…
Sql Server Enterprise versus Standard Editions
High Availability SQL Server Standard includes some features to enable high availability, but the Enterprise edition brings more. Features like database snapshots, mirrored backups and fast restore mean that when…
Visual Studio – VS find matching brace
1. Place your cursor either before or after the OPENING brace. 2. Type CTRL ] (CTRL and CLOSE BRACKET) – it should jump to the closing brace
Hibernating Rhinos – nHibernate Profiler
1. To get started with this powerful profiler, simply install the NuGet package (look for nHibernate Profiler). it places all the required assemblies in your project AND…
Multiple iphones (iOS devices) – One PC
How do you sync multiple devices to one iTunes? In general, one iTunes instance = one device – try and change devices and you have a nightmare on your hands.…
nHibernate transactions and rollbacks
Introduction The same rollback considerations that apply to normal SQL transactions also apply to nHibernate transactions. Rollback Scenario Suppose you have two SQL Statements – the first one tries to…
Fluent nHibernate setting database transaction isolation level
Introduction Normally, if you do NOT specify the isolation level for an nHiberante transaction, it will remain undefined. This is bad for many reasons – the primary one being that…
Agatha–Getting Started–First Application
Introduction The advent of WCF has made life simpler for web service developers . Passing complex types, quick serialization, write once run with multiple bindings (and hence multiple consumers) etc.…