13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

1 June, 2016. It was a Wednesday. In many of my applications, the UI and API gravitate towards task-oriented UIs. Instead of “editing an invoice”, I “approve an invoice”, with specialized models, ...

In one of my previous posts I have talked about continuous deployment and continuous delivery and why it is important. In a series of posts I want to describe in detail the various patterns that are ...

17 December, 2015. It was a Thursday. In the last post, I looked at auto-property enhancements, with several comments pointing out some nicer usages. I recently went through the HtmlTags codebase, C# ...

1 November, 2015. It was a Sunday. Earlier this year I joined a development team which chose Entity Framework for the persistence needs of a new greenfield project. While I’ve worked on a few projects ...

17 July, 2015. It was a Friday. If you’re like me and you enjoy nice, peaceful weekends, but keep getting hassled when something bad happens in production to shatter the blissful silence you’re ...

5 May, 2015. It was a Tuesday. CQRS is a simple pattern – two objects for command/queries where once there was one. These days just about every system I build utilizes CQRS, as it’s a natural ...

Way too many times I encounter applications that claim to have a domain (model) and that domain driven design has been used to develop it, but in reality what I find is a collection of entities or ...

12 April, 2015. It was a Sunday. In this post I have discussed CQRS, an architectural pattern from a high level perspective. CQRS is one of my favorite patterns when it comes to complex line of ...

In my opinion Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) is one of the most useful architectural patterns when used in the context of a complex line of business application (LOB). Martin Fowler ...

A couple of posts ago, I walked through my preferred solution of isolating database state using intelligent database wiping with Respawn. Inside a test, we still need to worry about persisting items.