Yes, it finally made it to 1.0 ! Yay for NHibernate ! NHibernate is one of those object persistence tools I’ve played around with a bit, like Wilson OR Mapper or LLBLGenPro . I’ve used all three here and there on different projects, but haven’t committed to one yet. Not that I was really waiting on NHibernate...

I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy. Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week. So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed them the first time around. Coupling, Abstractness...

Value types are created on the stack. Reference types are created on the heap. When something is created on the heap (an object) the variable assigned to that object holds a 4 byte “pointer” to the address space on the heap where the object has been allocated. Every time you pass that variable as a parameter...

In a comment to this post , Darrell suggested I describe where high factors of coupling are appropriate. I’ll take it one step further and show you how to use those factors to determine the stability of an assembly and application, measure abstractness, and how to look at both to determine how useful...

I was asked to put together this high-level and traditional software life cycle information as a favor for a friend of a friend, so I thought I might as well share it with everybody. The General Model Software life cycle models describe phases of the software cycle and the order in which those phases...

Every once in awhile, you come across this exception: System.NullReferenceException – “Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” You see people asking about this everywhere; about why are they getting this error. Below are a few common causes for this. Note, regardless of the scenario, the...

In response to a comment on this post , here are couple of source code analysis tools for managed code: NDepend – Free - NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates design quality metrics. Complexity Analyzer – Costs Money - Automatically compute the complexity factors for your methods...

An application domain is the CLR equivalent of an operation system's process. An application domain is used to isolate applications from one another. This is the same way an operating system process works. The separation is required so that applications do not affect one another. This separation is achieved...

I see this topic quite a bit on newsgroups and in microsoft chats. People ask how and what to monitor to check out the performance of their application. First and foremost, I tell people to get CLRProfiler . The CLR Profiler includes a number of very useful views of the allocation profile, including...

I found this wonderful file floating on my hard drive. Its credit goes to Leon Andrianarivony. I have looked and looked for a site of his to link up to and cannot find one. Either way, he’s provided this wonderful drawing on the life cycle of an Asp.Net page. Also noted are differences in v1.1 and v2...