Does it make sense to NGen – compile your ASP.NET MVC application ?

In .Net world every line of code has to be compiled before it can be executed obviously. However the compilation process occurs twice. First the Common Intermediate Language (CIL) is produced out of human readable code and it occurs just after the development process. Then the CIL is compiled into the native code specifically to be interpreted by the target machine. The letter step occurs on the fly, on client machine and is called the JIT (Just In Time) compilation.

By Mirek on 1/4/2017 (tags: NGen CIL JIT-compilation, categories: architecture, tools)

Web API : One side object materialization

Recently I’ve been working on a api project where the requirement was that any data on the api service side is plain xml, stored in database as xml type column. No binding and object materialization is done on the server. However the client has to operate on clr objects. I am going to show you the solution I came to.

By Mirek on 9/14/2015 (tags: Web API, web service, XML, categories: architecture)

Sql Server application roles with Entity Framework Code First Migrations

A time ago I have been writing about the Sql Server application roles, what are the benefits of using them and what are the limitations when we want to incorporate the Entity Framework to use application role. Today I will show you how to workaround those limitations with new Entity Framework facility introduced in version 6 of the framework.

By Mirek on 2/6/2015 (tags: Application Role, Entity Framework, SQL Server, categories: architecture, code)

Autofac and MEF integration

A time ago I have presented a way of implementing wpf plugins with use of Managed Extensibility Framework. Today I will show you how to integrate your MEF exports with Autofac dependency container.

By Mirek on 11/14/2014 (tags: Autofac, MEF, Plugins, categories: architecture)

Version tolerant XML Serialization

One of the beauties of xml, is that it can be extended without breaking applications. You can add element to the xml document tree and the application should not crash or fail while consuming this xml. This is what we can read on the w3schools.com xml tutorial. But how is this with serialization of the xml?

By Mirek on 11/3/2014 (tags: Version Tolerant Serialization, XML, categories: architecture, code)

Mapping XML column with XSD schema validation in EF Code First

The XML data type allows storing a xml content in our SQL Server database. The great feature is that we can also attach an XSD schema to it and have the xml content automatically validated. Here I am going to show you how to set it up together with Entity Framework Code First.

By Mirek on 10/29/2014 (tags: Entity Framework, SQL Server, XML, XSD, categories: architecture, code)

InitialCreate migration and why is it important

Entity Framework migrations is indeed a great feature. It makes you don’t need to worry about the database schema updates almost at all. There are however few things you must know to properly understand and use EF migrations. This post describes few of those things.

By Mirek on 10/13/2014 (tags: Entity Framework, migrations, categories: architecture, tools, code)

TypeScript - a way to embrace the fuzzy world of java script.

What I always dislike in java script was the fuzziness of this language. Very often you didn’t know what type the variable is or if it was an object or a function. I always lack of some strong typing, design time rich intellisense or compile time type checking, which would minimize the possibility of making a bug in the java script code.

By Mirek on 9/22/2014 (tags: javascript, TypeScript, categories: architecture)

Why should we be concerned about floating point arithmetic.

This is often quite obvious that when we are developing application which operates on a real numbers we use a double data type in .net. Here you will see why you should take a special care about the floating point calculations in your software.

By Mirek on 8/6/2014 (tags: decimal, double, flaoating-point, categories: architecture)

SQL Server Application Role

Sql Server Application Role is a way to control access to the database for specific applications. It simply grants a access to a program that provides application role credentials, not for the user login that is used to connect to a database.

By Mirek on 5/21/2014 (tags: Application Role, Entity Framework, SQL Server, categories: architecture)