Last month (21st of July 2011) I spoke at the Bermuda NET Event “Migrating WinForm applications to WPF/Silverlight”. This has been for me the first NET Event in Bermuda but for sure it will not be the last one. We are planning to have a new event this autumn where we will touch other topics like: ALM, Parallels and more. Thanks to Alessio Bellisomi, the web developer that works in my company, I am able to share with you some nice pictures of the event and three short movie of the event. Unfortunately, for this event, we were not...

The best way to learn a tool is to try it, test it and then finally use it over your code. Of course if the tool provides also a great community support and a great documentation the task will be easier. Some weeks ago we started to adopt a wonderful tool to create mockups and other TDD fancy stuff, the tool is TypeMock. The idea I got is to create a series of tutorials about TypeMock and provide to you a piece of a code to download a full license of this tool. At the end of the...

A dear friend of mine, Simone Chiaretta, ASP.NET MVP wrote an interesting book about ASP.NET MVC in collaboration with Keyvan Nayyeri. The book is Beginning ASP.NET MVC 1.0, edited by Wrox, available on Amazon.com at this address for the price of 31.49 USD. I am going to write a review of this book because, first of all, I know Simone and his professionalism. Second, because I am working now on an ASP.NET MVC project in my company, and this book was really helpful for me, so I am pretty sure that it will be the...

Hi guys, as I told you in the previous post, I bought a new iPhone 3GS with the new OS 3.1. The phone is pretty cool, it works great and it has tons of software, utilities and services that I didn’t find in any smart phone, including the BlackBerry. The only big problem was to configure my business exchange email. Simply, it was not working until today. So in this small guide I am going to explain step by step what you have to do in order to have a full functional and working iPhone! Configure ActiveSync on...

I have an exiting news today. A couple of days ago, one of my friends David Silverlight asked me about a new project called Silverlight UserGroup Web Starter Kit. At the beginning I was afraid about the free time that I do not have but then I tough “this should be a good way to learn RIA services and EF in depth” … So here we go. This is the codeplex address: http://silverlightugstarter.codeplex.com/ and the project seems to be really cool, especially for the people that are going to work with me. Oh boy, finally I can...

In the previous post we saw how to map an entity with a composite-id. Well but now if you have mapped an entity in this way and you need to create a collection of this entity or maybe you have a related child class that uses this primary keys … you are in trouble! The way to solve the problem is very easy. First of a short example to understand what I’m talking about: 1: class Foo { 2:...

I’m working with the new version (2.0 GA) of NHibernate. The problem I have encountered today is about the composite-id. Let’s say we have an entity that doesn’t have a personal id field. We don’t want to use the GUID or any other auto id generator class. We must implement the primary key logic in the corresponding table in the database. Now, imagine to have this table: Key Column Name SQL...

Finally is out and I'm a friend of the Author (Simone Chiaretta)!! ISBN: 978-0-470-43399-7 Paperback 500 pages March 2009   Beginning ASP.NET MVC is for developers who have .NET and ASP.NET experience, but want to enhance their level of knowledge and need to learn about the MVC framework. The book is simple and basic in its approach, because it allows readers to learn the concepts in a straightforward, uncomplicated way, but it still assumes a level of programming background and knowledge. This appeals to those who don’t want to get bogged down in learning ASP.NET, but need...

My friend Simone Chiaretta is writing his first book about Beginning ASP.NET MVC in collaboration with Keyvan. The book will be targeted to the developers that are not really focused on the MVC framework. This framework is new in Microsoft and it is still in a Beta version but personally, I'm using it and I have used this framework for two web project and it's awesome!! You can find a detailed series of articles about ASP.NET MVC, written by Simone on DotNetSlackers. I suggest to everybody to read them. If you wanna read more details about the book, the Publishing...