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T-4 Templates for ASP.NET Web Form Databound Control Friendly Logical Layers

jalam — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 06:00:00 GMT

I just released an open source project at codeplex, which includes a set of T-4 templates to enable you to build logical layers (i.e. DAL/BLL) with just few clicks! The logical layers implemented here are based on Entity Framework 4.0, ASP.NET Web Form Data Bound control friendly and fully unit testable.

In this open source project you will get Entity Framework 4.0 based T-4 templates for following types of logical layers:

Data Access Layer: Entity Framework 4.0 provides excellent ORM data access layer. It also includes support for T-4 templates, as built-in code generation strategy in Visual Studio 2010, where we can customize default structure of data access layer based on Entity Framework. default structure of data access layer has been enhanced to get support for mock testing in Entity Framework 4.0 object model.
Business Logic Layer: ASP.NET web form based data bound control friendly business logic layer, which will enable you few clicks to build data bound web applications on top of ASP.NET Web Form and Entity Framework 4.0 quickly with great support of mock testing.

Download it to make your web development productive. Enjoy!

The Architecture Tool Space Keeps Growing

paulo — Mon, 05 May 2008 05:00:00 GMT

The tool space for software architecture has been growing. There are new tools and continuous improvement in the existing ones.

Framework Design Studio

Last month Krzysztof Cwalina from Microsoft released the Framework Design Studio at MSDN Code Gallery.

The tool allows comparing two versions of an assembly to identify API differences: API additions and removals. Comparing versions of APIs comes very handy during API design process. Often you want to ensure that things did not get removed accidentally (which can cause incompatibilities), and as APIs grow, you want to review the addition without having to re-review APIs that were already reviewed. The tool, called Framework Design Studio (FDS) supports these scenarios. - from Krzysztof's blog post

Lattix

Lattix keeps improving its Architecture Management System composed of two tools:

Lattix LDM for architects
Lattix LDV for developers and QA

The Lattix tools can be used in the following environments:

Ada
C/C++
Delphi Pascal
Java
.NET
Oracle
SQL Server
Sybase
LDI (An XML specification that allows users to load dependency information from different languages, configuration files and proprietary tools)

The site has lots of resources on its getting started section that can be used to evaluate the tools:

Download a trial version of Lattix LDM
Take the tour
See a live Demonstration
Assess your software
Try a JumpStart project

The latest release (Lattix 4.1) was released on April 21, 2008.

NDepend

NDepend, from fellow C# MVP Patrick Smacchia, targets only the .NET Framework (stay tuned for more) is also in continuous development. Its UI is more familiar for Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Office users than Lattix's UI and a really cool feature:

Code Query Language (CQL) that allows code to be considered a database which can be queried to check assertions

The site has lots of videos (both on the Home page and Getting Started page) and documentation on all the concepts used by the tool.

The latest release (NDepend 2.8.1) was released on April 26, 2008.

ApexSQL Enforce

ApexSQL Enforce, from ApexSQL, targets SQL Server databases allows to:

Ensure adherence to design standards in "real time"
Facilitate upgrades to new versions of SQL Server by identifying potential conversion problems before the database is ported
Automatically reverse or fix detected violations using generated "FixSQL" scripts
Enforce Naming conventions and ensure that SQL reserved words and special characters are not used

The site has lots of product information:

The latest release (2008.02) was released on Marsh 26, 2008.

Framework Design Studio On MSDN Code Gallery

paulo — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:00:00 GMT

I just came across this today:

Framework Design Studio is a set of tools for reusable library designers. The package contains a GUI tool for viewing, reviewing, and comparing versions of managed APIs. It also contains a command line tool for generating API diff reports.

This seems to be a great tool to check if your new version of your framework will break any previous released APIs.

Although honoring the previously released APIs, your new version might have side effects and, to find out what they might be, there is another great tool: NDepend.

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 shipped

paulo — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Web Client Software Factory 2.0

February 2008 Release

Resources

MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory
Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf

About the Deliverable

The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications. The factory includes samples, reusable code and a guidance package which automates key development tasks from within Visual Studio.

Using the Web Client Software Factory assets, developers can create Composite Web applications composed of independently developed and deployed modules. These modules are dynamically brought together at runtime into a common shell. Additionally the factory includes support for ASP.NET AJAX thus providing users with a richer and more responsive user experience.

New In This Release

The February 2008 release of the Web Client Software Factory has the following improvements to the June 2007 release.

Full support for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5
Added ASP.NET AJAX extenders for Context Sensitive Autocomplete, AJAX Validation, and Real Time Search that can be used in existing ASP.NET sites and ASP.NET sites built using the Composite Web Application Block.
Added UI Composition capability through extending our dependency injection mechanism to support Pages, User Controls and Master Pages.
Added Dependency Injection on ASMX Web Services and JSON services.
Added a new set of Quickstarts and How-To topics on MVP, Modularity and the new AJAX extenders
Added a new Order Entry Reference application that demonstrates all of the new functionality.

In addition, this release of WCSF has the following community issues and fixes:

42 Workitems closed including the top-voted items on CodePlex
Add ASP.NET AJAX Support (97 votes)
Web Client Software Factory Support for Enterprise Library 3.1 (62 votes)
Services through configuration (32 votes)
Support for using the Validation Application Block (16 votes)
Recipe support for Visual Basic .NET (20 votes)
Added Presenter support for Master Pages (11 votes)

WCSF geekSpeak: Download Available On Channel 9

paulo — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:00:00 GMT

WCSF geekSpeak: Download Available At MSEVENTS

paulo — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT

For those who missed my webcast (and wanted to watch it) it's available to download at the MSEVENTS site.

WCSF geekSpeak: Online Resources

paulo — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Here is the list of topics covered in the WCSF geekSpeak webcast:

And here is a list of online resources:

WCSF geekSpeak: Real-Time Search Bundle Demo Code

paulo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT

This demo e based on the demo included in the Real-Time Search Bundle download.

The demo includes an entry form with two implementations:

Using an Update Panel.
Using the WCSF's Real-Time Search Monitor.

WCSF geekSpeak: Validation Bundle Demo Code

paulo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT

This demo e based on the demo included in the Validation Bundle download.

The demo includes an entry form with three implementations:

Using the traditional server-side validation.
Using server-side validation with the Enterprise Library's Validation Application Block.
Using server-side validation with the Enterprise Library's Validation Application Block and the WCSF's Server-Side Validation Extender.

WCSF geekSpeak: Contextual Auto Complete Bundle Demo Code

paulo — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:00:00 GMT

This demo e based on the demo included in the Contextual Auto Complete Bundle download.

The demo includes an entry form with three implementations:

Using the traditional auto post back model
Using an update panel
Using the Contextual Auto Complete Extender.