Announcing the new major release of Simple Injector. The Simple Injector is an easy-to-use Inversion of Control library for .NET and Silverlight.Last week Simple Injector 2 was released. This release was a major undertaking. I've been working on this r...

When it comes to writing maintainable software, there is no alternative to the five core principles of object oriented design. When software is based on these principles, everything becomes significantly easier. When your software is based on these pri...

This article describes how to extend the Simple Injector with convension based configuration for primitive constructor arguments.When working with dependency injection, services (classes that contain behavior) depend on other services. The general ide...

This article extends the architectural design of command handlers to allow command handlers to return data.A few months back I described the command / handler architecture that I (and many others) use to effectively model business operations in a syste...

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Last week I published the first stable release of CuttingEdge.Conditions.Download:The CuttingEdge.Conditions library and source code can be downloaded from CodePlex.com. Visit the homepage at conditions.codeplex.com or go directly to the download tab.A...

Just found this free ebook on the Red Gate site:This book is for busy programmers who want a succinct and yet readable guide to C# 3.0 and LINQ. C# 3.0 Pocket Reference, written by Joseph and Ben Albahari, tells you exactly what you need to know, witho...

For over three years I've been using NDepend. In this post I'll describe my thoughts on NDepend.As a freelancer I participate in several projects each year. Their size, quality, and size differ quite a lot, but a few times a year I feel the urge of usi...

The Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library (Anti-XSS) is an encoding library designed to help developers protect their ASP.NET web-based applications from XSS attacks.New features in version 3.1 of the Microsoft Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library i...

This article describes what Cross-site request forgery attacks are and how to mitigate them.Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) is "a type of malicious exploit of a website whereby unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website t...