Raymond Lewallen

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• NHibernate 1.0 has been released

  Yes, it finally made it to 1.0 ! Yay for NHibernate ! NHibernate is one of those object persistence tools I’ve played around with a bit, like Wilson OR Mapper or LLBLGenPro . I’ve used all three here and there on different projects, but haven’t committed... Posted Oct 12 2005, 08:45 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 11 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• A recap of popular and helpful posts for developers

  I haven’t posted in about a week because I’ve been busy. Tomorrow I leave on vacation, so I won’t be posting for at least another week. So I thought I would leave you with links to some of the most popular and most read posts on my blog, incase you missed... Posted Aug 24 2005, 11:08 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Extreme Programming, Generalities, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development, TDD

• Boxing and Unboxing for Beginners

  Converting value types to reference types and then back to value types again. An overview for beginners to .Net Posted Jul 28 2005, 07:48 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular

• Coupling, Abstractness, Stability - Measuring and Applying Code Metrics

  Formulas for analyzing code metrics and how to apply them. Posted Jul 15 2005, 10:36 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• Software Development Life Cycle Models

  A look into the software life cycle models commonly used. Posted Jul 13 2005, 08:13 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 340 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Extreme Programming, Generalities, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices, Sql Development, TDD

• System.NullReferenceException - Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 3 common causes in VB.Net.

  3 common causes of this runtime exception in VB.Net, 2 of which you can't compile in C#. Posted Jun 23 2005, 09:03 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 142 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• Some managed code analysis tools

  In response to a comment on this post , here are couple of source code analysis tools for managed code: NDepend – Free - NDepend analyses .NET assemblies of an application and generates design quality metrics. Complexity Analyzer – Costs Money - Automatically... Posted Jun 13 2005, 08:24 AM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular, Patterns and Practices

• What is an application domain - an explanation for .Net beginners

  An application domain is the CLR equivalent of an operation system's process. An application domain is used to isolate applications from one another. This is the same way an operating system process works. The separation is required so that applications... Posted Apr 03 2005, 08:48 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular

• Performance Monitoring - Garbage Collection

  I see this topic quite a bit on newsgroups and in microsoft chats. People ask how and what to monitor to check out the performance of their application. First and foremost, I tell people to get CLRProfiler . The CLR Profiler includes a number of very... Posted Mar 31 2005, 01:24 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular

• Asp.Net Page Life Cycle

  I found this wonderful file floating on my hard drive. Its credit goes to Leon Andrianarivony. I have looked and looked for a site of his to link up to and cannot find one. Either way, he’s provided this wonderful drawing on the life cycle of an Asp.Net... Posted Mar 10 2005, 02:47 PM by Raymond Lewallen with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: .Net Development, Most Popular