What my toolbox looks like

I guess that most developer have their favorite set of libraries that they use in just about every project. Atleast I have such a toolbox. They are tools that I find myself using constantly and that I feel help me in my development. Here comes my list. 1. Asp.Net Mvc Well, I'm mostly a web develop ...

What I look for in a ORM

In just about every application I build that use a relational database, I also use a orm tool to handle my data access. The reason I do this is to save myself the time it takes to handroll a data access layer in ADO.Net and to eliminate buggs that can come from writing sql queries. I do have a few t ...

Why I would not use Stored Procedures

A very important task in just about any web application that you will build is data access. There is alot of opinions on how this is done the best way.  You can use inline sql statements in your code, you can use stored procedures or you can generate your sql using a OR Mapper. From the develop ...

Why I choose NHibernate

In my last post I wrote a little bit about the differances between NHibernate and Entity Framework. I came to the conclution that I, personaly, like NHibernate more then Entity Framework. So I tought I´d write a post that explains NHibernate more, and the reasons to why I choose it over other ...

Entity Framework vs NHibernate

I have worked with both Entity Framework (at work) and NHibernate (at private projects) for a while now, and I tought I would write a post about the differance between the two. They are both (kind of) Object Relational Mappers (ORM´s) and they were developed to solve the same problem, that is ...

Building a forum application, Part 5

This is the fifth part in a series of posts where I build a forum application. The other posts can be found here: Building a forum application, Part 1 Building a forum application, Part 2 Building a forum application, Part 3 Building a forum application, Part 4 First I&acu ...

Building a forum application, Part 3

This is the third part in a series of posts where I build a forum application. The other posts can be found here: Building a forum application, Part 1 Building a forum application, Part 2  In this post I´ll show you the initial structure of the application. I have created ...

Building a forum application, Part 1

I have decided to build a forum application. My goal is to build a generic forum that people can use and learn from. I want to use the latest techniques and tools to build a good application base that is easy to extend with the functionality that you require. I will post here from time to time as I ...

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