Software quality is the great white whale of the software industry. We often seek it, but are totally unprepared to do anything about it. As in the tale by Melville, we can point out our Captain Ahab’s who are driven towards the extremes in ensuring quality. We also have the [...]
At the Tampa C# Meetup on August 3rd, I presented this Gentle Introduction to MEF using the same project modified over three steps. This is Part Three, where I complete the application created in Part One and modified to use MEF in Part Two. This part will show MEF composing [...]
I have recently begun planning a new project, and I needed to do all the standard pre-project decision making on build runners, test frameworks, continuous integration tool, IoC, and since it was going to need a UI, an MVVM framework. These decisions are usually quite quick since I tend to [...]
At the Tampa C# Meetup on August 3rd, I presented this Gentle Introduction to MEF using the same project modified over three steps. This is Part Two, where I show the application created in Part One using MEF. Recap In Part One I created an application the generates some text, [...]
At the Tampa C# Meetup on August 3rd, I presented this Gentle Introduction to MEF using the same project modified over three steps. This is part one, where I show the application without MEF. Functionality The target program will have the following functionality: Transform text data using a selectable transformation [...]
When working with the EventAggregator, I occasionally stumble upon situations in which I want to subscribe to multiple instances exposing the IHandle interface. It is not often, but happens enough that I got tired of the same code multiple times, and created a couple of extension methods to deal with [...]
I just released an update for Caliburn.Micro.Logging, Caliburn.Micro.Logging.NLog, and Caliburn.Micro.Logging.log4net. All three are now at version 1.2.1, and are available on NuGet. This is a just a minor patch release with the version notes below. Please see the following posts for usage: Introducing Caliburn.Micro.Logging Introducing Caliburn.Micro.Logging.NLog Introducing Caliburn.Micro.Logging.log4net Version Notes [...]
I just released Caliburn.Micro.Autofac 1.2.1 to NuGet. This is a minor patch release, call it the OOPS release if you will. My build script was not good enough yet. It should be fixed now. Please see Introducing Caliburn.Micro.Autofac for usage. Version Notes Fixed missing references in Caliburn.Micro.Autofac for .NET 4 [...]
I just released Caliburn.Micro.Autofac 1.2 to NuGet. Please see Introducing Caliburn.Micro.Autofac for usage. Version Notes Upgraded .NET 4 and Silverlight 4 versions to Caliburn.Micro 1.2.0 Created a psake build script to be used in Continuous Integration Added new sample applications First version of Windows Phone 7 support Known Issues with [...]
I have recently needed to rebuild my Continuous Integration server, and once more found out that I never documented my configuration the last time I set it up. The same has happened when I rebuild my development machine every 18 months or so. Having wasted hours re-discovering the list of [...]
I just released Caliburn.Micro.Autofac 1.1 to NuGet. Please see Introducing Caliburn.Micro.Autofac for usage. Version Notes Cleaned up source directories slightly Refactored AssemblyInfo.cs into GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs, VersionAssemblyInfo.cs, and project AssemblyInfo.cs Upgraded Autofac to version 2.5.1 Added support for Silverlight 4 I have also started working on making this library compatible with Windows [...]
