Introduction We used ActiveRecord migrations at Eleutian for a number of months. Everything was right with the world and we had no major complaints until we started running into a problem with our more complex migration scenarios. Usually, we see two kinds of migrations: Schema - Add/remove/rename columns...

I'm very pleased to formally announce a project that Aaron and I started a few months ago and have been quietly contributing to. MultiFunctionMachineMachine , MFMM, or just Machine is a collection of common code and projects that we've collected into one place for our own consumption. In the...

While working on the new product (and that's why the break) we got into a DataBinding situation. We had a DTO class, something like this public class Employee { private string employeeName; private string employeeId; public string EmployeeName { get { return employeeName; } set { employeeName = value...

Many a time you might face this issue. Especially when you are using a third party component, which uses an older version of an assembly, of which you are using a newer version. Pre 2.0 (and I do not know for sure of 2.0) compiler compliant to the CLS do not support the functionality of a static reference...

There were a few mistakes in the last post on the AppDomain.Unload solution (thanks Manoj for pointing out) (John Papa wanted to know why I did not use LoadFile, thanks John, now I know should have written that MarshalByRef, just forgot it completely.) And sorry for this delayed update, damn weekend...

Well we ended up writing a VS.Net plugin to add to our developer testing tools (something like NUnitPlugin, but different). Not much, but almost the whole program was written and then there was this problem that all VS.Net plug-in writers face, atleast once in their life. Namely, you load an assembly...

From John Papa's post to Jackie Goldstien's that quoted Pablo Castro[MS], got these words that were somewhere in my mind but never expressed. Thanks all. In general, having multiple overloads where the distinguishing parameter type is “object” in one of them is a dangerous thing to do.

Recent questions in one of the newsgroups, regarding practical examples of Static instances. I’m sure there are many ideas out there, here is my take Normally you would need to create a static instance when the secondary ( the primary ofcourse is the busines logic) need is - 1. Keeping an instance which...