A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Summary In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate how to create an assembly language subroutine and call it from a C++ program. Assembly Language It’s been a few years since I’ve created any assembly language. In fact, the last time I wrote a real assembly language program the tool to use was Borland’s Turbo … Read moreUsing Assembly in Visual Studio 2013
Summary In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate how to lazy load your data using Entity Framework and SQL Server. The purpose is to write an object that returns program settings stored in a table, but read from the table only once during the lifetime of the program. The Data In a database named … Read moreLazy Loading Data
Summary Anybody who has attempted writing unit tests for a website has run into the problem where you cannot mock the HttpContext object. I usually write my code in such a way that I don’t need to mock the context by using only connection code to go between the website controller and the actual business … Read moreMocking HttpContext
Summary I’ve done these ad-hoc ORM performance tests in the past. In this test I’m going to re-test the latest Entity Framework (version 6.1.3) against the latest Linq-to-SQL version. I’ll be using EF code-first this time to make sure there isn’t any extra overhead. I’ll also be using Visual Studio 2013. The Hardware and Software … Read moreEntity Framework 6.1.3 vs. Linq2SQL vs. NHibernate Smackdown!