Category Archives: introduction

NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide published

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

I am very pleased to announce that my book NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide has finally been published. It is a wonderful feeling to finally have a book in my hands that cost me a couple of months of intense work. … Continue reading →

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NHibernate 3 Beginners Guide

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Gabriel Schenker

I am heading towards another mile stone in my life. Later this year my first book will be published. I have always wanted to write a book but never had a topic that is at the same time interesting for … Continue reading →

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New book on NHibernate

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Yesterday a new excellent book about NHibernate has been published by www.packtpub.com. (Disclosure: I have been a reviewer thus consider that when reading this post) The book is called “NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook” and can be ordered here. There is even … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – static reflection

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my last post about binding dependency properties of a Silverlight control to a view model I used LINQ expressions to define the binding. I have written in the … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Binding dependency properties to model properties

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. In my previous posts (here and here) I discussed how one can build a fluent API for the definition of objects. In the context of Fluent Silverlight these objects … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Fluent API and inheritance

Posted on January 3, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction In my last post I showed how we  can implement a fluent API to help us construct instances of specific classes. When using a fluent API the code … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Implementing a fluent API

Posted on January 2, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Please view the table of content of this series for reference. Introduction Quite some time has passed since we published our Fluent Silverlight framework. In the mean time we have been very busy extending the framework and using it in … Continue reading →

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Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 2

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction Unfortunately there doesn’t yet exist any decent profiler for Silverlight applications. This fact inspired me to write my own profiler which is able to profile any member of any assembly of our solution and help me track down performance … Continue reading →

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Writing a profiler for Silverlight applications – Part 1

Posted on November 26, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

In this article I want to discuss the steps needed to instrument a Silverlight assembly such as that it can be profiled. To achieve this task I use Mono Cecil, a library from the Mono platform which is an open … Continue reading →

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Fluent Silverlight – Part 1

Posted on May 31, 2009 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction We (that is Ray Houston and myself) want to introduce a new framework we developed in the past few months. This framework provides a fluent interface to Microsoft Silverlight. As we have been able to leverage a lot of … Continue reading →

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