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Summary I’m currently researching all my options regarding ORM’s. In my previous posts I talked about NHibernate and how to setup a simple example. This time I’m going to demonstrate how Fluent NHibernate works and how you can use it to avoid setting up xml documents for mapping your tables. Project Setup Create an empty … Read moreFluent NHibernate with MS SQL Server
Summary In my last post, I showed how to get NHibernate up and running. This article will talk about using Linq with NHibernate. I’m also going to add another table to the mix and show a sample query that joins these two tables together. Using Linq If you typed in the project from my last … Read moreNHibernate and Linq
Introduction Some time ago I talked a little about NHibernate. This is the .Net version of the Hibernate ORM. I’ve also made several failed attempts to make NHibernate work in Visual Studio with MS SQL server. I worked my way through this example several times: Your first NHibernate based application. Needless to say, NHibernate has … Read moreNHibernate
Introduction I’ve covered some unit testing in a previous blog post. This time I want to expand on my earlier post and show how to mock two or more tables. I will also demonstrate a weakness I discovered in mocking a database using the mock and a method to get around it. Two or more … Read moreEF-6 Unit testing (Part 2)
One of the clever features of Visual Studio and technically, the assembly model itself, is that you can embed your data files right inside the assembly dll. The advantage of doing this is so you can hide your data and prevent someone from altering it with a text editor (assuming you are using text data). … Read moreEmbedded Resource
Today, I’m doing my own performance testing on Entity Framework 6 and LINQ to SQL. I created two tables in a sample SQL server database. Here is the ERD for the two tables I created: Next, I created two console application projects. One to test LINQ to SQL and the other with EF-6. You can … Read moreEntity Framework 6 vs. LINQ-to-SQL smackdown!
Last week I attempted to mimic this article from Microsoft: Testing and Mocking Framework. I ran into a problem involving some code that was in the article last week, but has since been removed (I’m assuming that Microsoft changed something in their EF6 framework or .Net and didn’t update the article before I tested it). … Read moreEntity Framework 6 Mocking and Unit Testing
I have implemented the mask and view capabilities. I’m calling this version 2. Here’s a sample screenshot of how it looks in action: The first thing you’ll notice about this map is that unexplored areas are colored in black. These will uncover as allied units are moved around the map. The darker areas are areas … Read moreThe Game (Part 4)
So I’m working on the visibility and mask of the game I wrote in the last two blog posts. Here’s a problem that I ran into right away and it involves not paying attention to detail. What I’m referring to here is the hex board layout. If you look at the documentation: Battle Field One … Read moreThe Game (Part 3)
I designed and created a small game to demonstrate several techniques. First, I demonstrated how to contain the scope of a project to ensure it gets out the door. While this was only a tiny project, my goal was to create a working game over the span of a weekend or possibly a week (It … Read moreFollow-Up on Designing a Game