Repository Factory

Unity 1.0 Released - Patterns & Practices IoC Container

Dave Hayden — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 20:33:00 GMT

Unity 1.0 Released - Patterns & Practices IoC Container

by David Hayden, Florida ASP.NET Developer

Microsoft Patterns & Practices Released Unity 1.0 today. Unity is an Inversion of Control ( IoC ) Container and Dependency Injection Tool from Microsoft Patterns & Practices that uses ObjectBuilder 2.0 as its dependency injection engine.

You can learn more about Unity by watching the following screencasts:

You can also read some tutorials on using Unity:

Download Unity.

See You In Tampa Tomorrow: Repository Factory, EntLib, and Guidance Bundles

Dave Hayden — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:52:00 GMT

See You In Tampa Tomorrow: RepositoryFactory EntLib Guidance Bundles

by David Hayden ( Florida .NET Developer ), Filed: Repository Factory

I look forward to seeing everyone at the Tampa .NET Developer Group tomorrow to talk about the Repository Factory and using it with the Validation Application Block, Policy Injection Application Block, and two new guidance bundles from Microsoft Patterns & Practices: Contextual Autocomplete Guidance Bundle and Validation Guidance Bundle.

We will use the Repository Factory to generate a data access layer from scratch, but also run through a couple of end-to-end examples to give you a feel on how all of these pieces can be used together using my cheesy :), but useful, DinnerTime QuickStart.

This example will show off the Repository Factory and the new ContextSensitiveAutoCompleteExtender giving you that rich autocomplete behavior using JSON, web services, and a data access layer created by the Repository Factory.

This example will show off the Repository Factory and ServerSideValidationExtender for rich UI Validation using the PropertyProxyValidator in the Validation Application Block as well as using the ValidationCallHandler on Repository Interfaces for policy injection and business object validation in the middle-tier.

We will also talk about the Enterprise Library Plug-In that I created for the Repository Factory that you can download from source code on the RepositoryFactory CodePlex site.

See you in Tampa.

Presenting in Tampa on October 18th - Repository Factory, Enterprise Library, Guidance Bundles

Dave Hayden — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:01:00 GMT

Speaking in Tampa on October 18th - Repository Factory, Enterprise Library, Guidance Bundles

by David Hayden ( Microsoft MVP C# ), Filed: Repository Factory, Enterprise Library, WCSF

I am presenting to the Tampa .NET Developer Group on Thursday, October 18th at 6:30pm at the Microsoft Tampa Office.

The focus is on the new Repository Factory, which is a software factory from Microsoft Patterns & Practices that will generate a data access layer for your winform and web applications in minutes. It generates business entities, stored procedures, and repository classes from an exisiting database within Visual Studio. In addition I will also be showing off the following:

Validation Application Block to provide business object validation.
Policy Injection Application Block to describe logging and caching mechanism using an Aspect-Oriented-Programming style.
The Autocomplete Guidance Bundle and Validation Guidance Bundle.
The ability to develop an Enterprise Library Plug-In to offer design-time support of the Repository Factory Configuration.

See you there! You can RSVP here.

Create Data Access Layer Using Repository Factory Screencast Part II Released!

Dave Hayden — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:13:00 GMT

Create Data Access Layer Using Repository Factory Screencast Part II Released!

by David Hayden ( Florida .NET Developer ), Filed: Repository Factory

You can download and watch the second screencast on the Repository Factory:

Create Data Access Layer Using Repository Factory Guidance Package Screencast

It shows one how to generate business entities, stored procedures, and repository factory classes to create a data access layer for your web and winform applications. If you haven't already, I recommend watching the first screencast which focuses more on the code generated by the Repository Factory:

Repository Factory Guidance Package Code Walkthrough Screencast

Both screencasts also highlight improvements in both the code generated and the guidance package as compared to the older Data Access Guidance Package:

Create Data Access Layer Using Data Access Guidance Package Screencast

Enjoy!

Repository Factory Screencast - Data Access Layer Code Generation Walkthru

Dave Hayden — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:52:00 GMT

Repository Factory Screencast - Data Access Layer Code Generation Walkthru

by David Hayden ( Florida .NET Developer ), Filed: Repository Factory

Download and watch my first screencast on the Repository Factory, which walks one through the data access layer code created by the Repository Factory Guidance Package:

Repository Factory Guidance Package Code Walkthrough Screencast

The screencast focuses on the main code differences between the Data Access Guidance Package and the Repository Factory. The following code generation results are discussed:

Microsoft.Practices.Repository Common Assembly
Repository Interfaces
RepositoryFactory Class
RepositoryFactory Configuration Section
Example of Using the New Classes

Once the guidance package is set, I will come out with an additional screencast that shows off using the guidance package to generate the code as I did in the following screencast: Create Data Access Layer Using Data Access Guidance Package Screencast.

Enjoy.