Inspired by Transient Fault Handling we created a quick helper class to faciliate the automatic retry of various operation that may fail in today’s interconnected environments. Large parts of our Appclusive framework deal with fetching from and pushing information to various backend systems. As they all can (and eventuall will) fail we needed a flexible […]
Creating SignalR Hub Classes on the fly
2017-03-18 by Leave a Comment
Recently I wanted to create SignalR hubs for client notification based on a list of internal queues. As SignalR is creating Hubs based on their type names I had to find an approach for dynamically defining classes based on the given queue list. In this blog post I show a way on how to do […]
Getting Instance by Type Name in StructureMap
2017-03-12 by Leave a Comment
Ever since we are using StructureMap we are also using this as a cheap replacement for Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), as it allows us to scan arbitrary assembly paths for additional types to inject. As we are also dealing with configuration sections where we specify which plugins or types we want to use in a […]
Calling ResumeBookmark inside a TrackingParticipant returns NotFound
2017-03-11 by Leave a Comment
While creating a process with Windows Workflow Foundation we wanted to communicate between a workflow activity and the workflow application. For this we decided to use Bookmarks and a TrackingParticipant. The idea was that the Activity should create a bookmark to be consumed by a TrackingParticipant which would process something and then pass control back […]
[NoBrainer] Cascading Lambda Expression in C#
2017-03-05 by Leave a Comment
While Converting ODataQueryOptions into LINQ Expressions I needed to cascade different Lambda Expressions via AND and OR. In this post I describe a way on how to easily combine them via a boxing class with operator overriding. The Problem Cascading lambda expressions should be as easy as using a + or && operator: A boxing […]
[NoBrainer] Strongly typed caching with System.Runtime.Caching.MemoryCache
2017-03-02 by Leave a Comment
Caching with C# has become easy since the MemoryCache component is included in the .NET framework. While this implementation provides only limited functionality it is actually quite easy to make it strongly typed and support for constructing unique cache keys per cache group. In this post I will show you how this can be done […]
Converting ODataQueryOptions into LINQ Expressions in C#
2017-03-01 by 20 Comments
OData makes it very easy for us to pass query options from the URL down to an object mapper like EntityFramework. However, this somehow happens automagically and cannot be really controlled in code. In this blog post I show how we can extract and convert FilterQueryOption and OrderByQueryOption to manually apply them to our underlying […]
