BlogEngine.NET - DAL Architecture

  • Posted by Jakob Andersen on April 24, 2008
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So as I wrote a few days ago I have been looking at BlogEngine.NET and considered how I would have designed its lower layers. So lets kick off with the provider that's currently used in BlogEngine.NET for accessing the various storages (XML and RDBMS). The provider is responsible for accessing all d... [More]

BlogEngine.NET investigations

  • Posted by Jakob Andersen on April 11, 2008
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Last Friday I took a look at the source code from BlogEngine.NET I wrote a little log during my short look: 20:32 - Downloaded the latest source from BlogEngine.NET on codeplex 20:34 - Build the solution and starting the website after a single problem with the website expected in another place t... [More]

Fluent interfaces. Make it easy to do it right

  • Posted by Jakob Andersen on March 31, 2008
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A fluent interface is a way to make what we could call an "inline" domain specific language using the power of the tools you already have at hand. Often when speaking statically typed object-oriented languages its a way to build an object graph or manipulate the state of an object in a mor... [More]