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Today’s post title is rather lengthly so I keep the introduction short and come right to the point: when using OData (or any web services therefore) it can become quite hard to keep the actual business logic separate and not to mix things where they do not belong. At least for me, as I have to admit that this happened […]
For one of our customers we had to implement Cookie handling for authentication purposes. This means reading the session token out of the Set-Cookie header and send the session token in the Cookie header of every request. When using the HttpClient from System.Net.Http there are two possibilites to do that. Either by passing a HttpClientHandler with a CookieContainer to the […]
On Monday and Tuesday, the 21st and the 22nd of November, our company organized an event. A Hackathon. What’s a Hackathon? “A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate […]
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 […]
Recently I started writing a PowerShell binary module in C# (mainly due to facilitate testing and move away from Pester limitations). In this post I will describe the format of […]
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 […]
Microsoft .NET offers a very flexible logging system exposed via the System.Diagnostics namespace. Unfortunately (and not surprisingly), by default the pre-packaged listeners do not support writing messages to log4net directly. However, we can extend the logging outputs by implementing custom TraceListeners and when asking our favourite search engine for “TraceListener log4net” we find there are already plenty of implementations of […]
One of the cool features of PowerShell script based Cmdlets is the possibility to define default values for Cmdlet parameters. This is typically done like this: Whenever we invoke such a Cmdlet without specifying the Name parameter the PowerShell runtime will insert the value my default value into that parameter. C# based PSCmdlet provide a similar approach to this by […]
For years all our PowerShell modules we released were script modules (i.e. they were written in PowerShell). However, it is certainly possible to write PowerShell modules in C# as binary modules. Of course there are already plenty discussions whether one or the other approach is better. It really depends on the exact requirements. For us the limitations of Pester (especially […]
We started using strong names for some of our assemblies. Strong named assemblies are assemblies, that get digitally signed with a strong name key to ensure its uniqueness (i.e. in […]
If you have been working with C# and JSON you mmight probably resorted to Newtonsoft.Json, the defacto standard in .NET for handling JSON related data. However, when it comes to […]
Visual Studio supports the generation of data service clients (Service references) for OData services. A data service client is a .NET class that contains methods for accessing the OData service and gets generated based on the metadata provided by the OData service. The client acts as a proxy and translates the method calls into HTTP requests. Mike Wasson describes in […]
Today’s post goes rather quick … Telerik JustMock in its commercial (i.e. non-free) version provides you the option to mock static classes, which comes in really handy when you want […]
This blog post is about log4net which switches log configurations within a process as soon as two components are using their own log4net configuration. As you can read from our numerous blogs we are using PowerShell in combination with C# quite extensively. In addition we are heavily relying on log4net for logging puposes (see our PowerShell module biz.dfch.PS.System.Logging (available at […]
Today I ran into a problem when all of a sudden my code contracts stopped working – as it seemed. In reality I was missing a simple override in the implementation of a class that derived from a base class. But now for a a concrete example. Suppose you have the following scenario: ContractClassForIArbitraryObject this class holds the contract for […]
I recently noticed an — at least for me — unexpected behaviour when working with Code Contracts in interfaces. When you define a contract for an interface (via ContractClassFor) and implement a class from that interface that contract is certainly enforced. However when you define additional requirements on that implementation class these contracts are evaluated BEFORE the interface contracts. Here […]
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