Testing in Python – My first steps with pytest
Recently I started developing in python (v3.8) as one of our customers asked me to implement some functionality based on a code base which is written in python. First of […]
Registering a Sparx Enterprise Architect AddIn on Windows 10 x64 without administrative permissions
Sparx Enterprise Architect supports AddIns so we can enhance its functionality and behaviour in our daily work life as an architect. This is normally done by adding a subkey to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Sparx Systems\EAAddins key. This is described in Geert Bellekens’ Tutorial: Create your first C# Enterprise Architect addin in 10 minutes. As we can read in the tutorial, in addition […]
[NoBrainer] Connecting Enterprise Architect Interfaces with PowerShell
In one of our projects we needed to create a lot of components that expose interfaces. The steps to design this in EA are quite tedious: Link the Interface to […]
[HOWTO] Install Infineon TPM Firmware Update
Last week Windows Defender Security Center alerted me to a firmware update of the security processor (TPM). Clicking on Learn more took me to a support website of Microsoft containing […]
[Bug] Sparx Enterprise Architect v14.0 Build 1421 breaks using Deployment Diagrams
A quick one: last Friday, Sparx released an update to its Enterprise Architect v14.0. When I installed it today I noticed that all of a sudden I could no longer use the Deployment Connector to connect an Artifact with an Execution Environment. However, the same morning it still worked. The error message I now get is: The requested connection is […]
Bugslayer: 10 days into EA14
My first 10 days into EA14 have passed by and I am discovering some issues ranging from nuisances to real distractors … So here is my list of bugs and […]
[NoBrainer] Automating Sparx Enterprise Architect with PowerShell
It has been some time since I have last posted something on our blog, so I will start with something easy: today I made the switch from Sparx Enterprise Architect […]
[HOWTO] Sync OneDrive on Server even if Windows User not logged in
In a project for one of our customers we used Microsoft OneDrive for data synchronisation. The data gets collected on a tablet and the folder containing the data will be […]
More Fun with your ODATA Models and AutoMapper
In our last post Separating your ODATA Models from the Persistence Layer with AutoMapper I showed how we can separate our public API Model from the internal persistence layer. In this post I will show how we can re-model the public API model without changing the internal data model. In the example from the previous post I showed our model […]
LINQ to Entities and AutoMapper mapping conventions
The other day I was trying to map a class to some other class, nothing unusual – especially when we use AutoMapper for that task. However the error I got was really unexpected: Here is how my classes looked like: What happened? The error occurred when I tried to convert my Attribute to a NameValuePair in an IQueryable call with […]
Separating your ODATA Models from the Persistence Layer with AutoMapper
Normally when creating ODATA Controllers the external Model (such as Customer) pretty much maps to the internal database backed model when you are using an ORM such as EntityFramework. This can become problematik when you want to change the model / data format: We either have a (breaking) change on the ODATA REST API Or we have a database schema […]
Using Generic Test Classes and EntityFramework test doubles to facilitate Unit Testing
This is some kind of follow-up to my previous posts regarding generic Odata controllers and decoupled domain managers. If you have followed my posts Using Dependency Injection with StructureMap to decouple business logic from WebApi OData Controllers and Simplifying OData Controllers by using generic controller classes you will remember that we use managers that contain the business logic and odata […]
[NoBrainer] Running ad-hoc benchmarks with BenchmarkDotNet and C# Scripting (CSI)
Creating benchmarks with BenchmarkDotNet is very easy and running them is even easier with the Visual C# Interactive Compiler (CSI for short). If you need more information about CSI, read Essential .NET – C# Scripting to get started). And here is how it works: Select the Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 from the Start Menu Run csi.exe Change to the […]
[HOWTO] Create LocalDB File (.mdf) manually in Visual Studio 2015
If you are using LocalDB and want to create an empty database you should perform the following steps. Go to Visual Studio Server Explorer | Data Connections Select Add Connection from the context menu Change Data Source to Microsoft SQL Server Database File (i.e. LocalDB) Set the Database file name by entering a database name and path that corresponds to […]
Replacing MEF with StructureMap
The title of today’s post might sound a little bit provoking, as originally MEF and StructureMap are not meant for the same use cases. However, as there is a great deal of overlapping functionality in StructureMap over MEF (and chances are high one is using an IoC framework anyway), it makes sense to check if we can reduce our arsenal […]
[NoBrainer] Using TeamCity Build Parameters with Environment Variables in C#
When integrating back end systems we very often would like our build server to run integration tests against our test evironments. The problem is that we do not want to […]
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