Dot Net Tricks

I haven't posted in a while do to being busy with my new job, but I thought I'd just share this code snippet.  In the new asp.net mvc framework, you often have the need for a single form, but multiple buttons that each post to a different controller...

I know nobody reads my blog anyway, but I still feel the need to comment (rant) to the blogosphere.  The back story goes like this.  Joel Spoelsky said some pretty irresponsible things in an interview, calling SOLID principles bureaucratic and...

I'm now part of two open source project, although this one I really want to be hands off.  So if anyone is interested in taking it over, feel free.  Here's a description from google code:SNARF (Simple, Nhibernate, ActiveRecord Framework)This...

I'm contributing to the Wilson O/R Mapper project which is now open source and on google code.  I'm adding fluent mappings for WORM in the same manner as Fluent NHibernate.  Exciting stuff!http://code.google.com/p/wilsonormapper/source/browse/#svn/branches/FluentMappings/Wilson.ORMapper/FluentMapping...

I'm hoping this won't offend any of you out there, but most of us developers write crappy code.  I'm not fully sure why this is, but even if the database isn't a steaming pile of horse poo, the code usually is.  There's often a lot of code duplication,...