The past two years or so I’ve been working with a rather large team of developers on the latest incarnation of our bespoke web site platform here at Thomas Cook NE. We decided early on to use Unity and the Interception Extension at pretty much all layers across the entire site. One page view will trigger...
I know, I know.. I've been extremely lazy lately, at least when it comes to sharing knowledge with you guys. I guess the main reason for that is that I'm currently on parental leave which means that my days are not really spent researching, architecting and developing as much as they are spent...
I know, I know.. I'm very late to this game, but I just looked through a webcast about the Web Service Software Factory and it really looks pretty interesting. I say this much because, well, the basic architecture that their recipes produce looks very similar to the one I started to implement almost...
Yesterday I spent more or less the entire day trying to figure out how to add references between projects while unfolding a solution template. Turns out it was wasn't that tricky once you get the hang of GAT... Here's a step-by-step instruction: Add new arguments for the complete name of each project...
I'm telling you, writing guidance packages using GAT can be infinitely frustrating! At least on my rather slow laptop with a measly 1 Gb of RAM. Why is that, you might ask yourself? Well, here's the process you use when finding errors in a package: Rebuild your package (about 45 seconds) Register...
My last post was about the Guidance Automation Toolkit from the P&P team. Well, I've spent a couple of hours trying to wrap my head around it and I have to admit I'm quite overwhelmed. It is very well structured and the possibilities are endless, but the amount of XML files and other stuff is equally...
Wow, these days it's not easy keeping up with the latest stuff from Microsoft, especially if you're an architect..! The latest thing to be released from the Pattern & Practices team is the Guidance Automation Toolkit . In short, it's a set of tools that simplifies the process of creating templates and...