Entity Framework 4 itself is interesting but what really got me hooked was the CTP 4 preview, and what Microsoft call “Code First”. Code First allows us to describe our model using regular POCO classes, instead of designing our model using either the EF editor or creating in directly in the database.
19 Apr, 2010
Recently I started a new assignment at a customer where we are going to build their new public web site and their intranet, both of them based on EPiServer CMS 6. The person leading the project is very found of ASP.NET MVC, so my first task was to experiment with EPiServer and ASP.NET MVC, to [...]
Recently I got a request from a customer to perform some search engine optimizing for an old EPiServer site we are maintaining. One of the optimizations was to fix the paging on their product page. The products are fetched from an external data source and are not stored as pages in EPiServer, thus normal EPiServer [...]
About a month ago I finished reading the book ASP.NET MVC 1.0 – Test Driven Development by Emad Ibrahim. The book weighs in only at about 300 pages, making it easily something you can read in a couple of nights. The book is written in tutorial fashion and is is probably best read with a [...]
While reading the EPiServer 5 SDK documentation, i found this: Rename a Folder There is no Rename method on the EPiServer.Web.Hosting.UnifiedDirectory class. To rename a folder you need to call the MoveTo method as follows: protected void RenameFolder(string path, string oldName, string name) { if (IsFolder(path)) { [...]
25 May, 2009
Posted by: Peter In: C#|Functional programming
I first learned about functional programming a few years ago when I took a class in Haskell programming at my university, Chalmers. While Haskell might not be for everyday use, many of the concepts are very compelling, such as higher order functions, pattern matching, lazy evaluation, list comprehensions, lambda functions and map/fold/filter. Over the years [...]