David Anderson is a software engineer with expertise in C#, .NET and other Microsoft technologies, and this is his blog.
N-Tier Architecture Best Practices, Part 1: 2-Tier Architecture with just a Data Tier N-Tier Architecture Best Practices, Part 2: 3-Tier Architecture with interfaces and a Data Tier → this article N-Tier Architecture Best Practices, Part 3: DLinq / Linq to…
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Before I start off on my lengthy post, this article is what sparked my interest. With that linked for you, this will be split into a 5 part blog series each part covering a specific type of n-tier architecture. If…
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If you are still using .NET threads to do multi-threading in your applications (compared to the Task Parallel Library or something else), then it is often a mistake of developers on how they update their UI thread. First off, stay…
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Download Example Code TasksWithThreadSafeEvents.zip In this article we will be using the following technologies: .NET 4.0 Windows Forms (WinForms) Task Parallel Library (TPL, part of .NET 4.0) In a nutshell, I am talking about writing thread-safe events for WinForms. I’ve…
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I started learning the Entity Framework so I can add support for MySQL side-by-side MSSQL in FaultTrack Professional (issue tracking software I am developing), and I started to run into quite a few limitations with MySQL. #1Â Â Â Â DDL Generation (SSDLToMySQL.tt (VS))…
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The other day someone asked a question about the relation between the Socket class, and the UdpClient class. Specifically, what is the relation? While the answer is simple because UdpClient is merely wrapper around a UDP initialized socket, this also…
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