Archives
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Fixing .NET Configuration Hell with TeleSharp: Authoring Configuration Files
The configuration authoring experience remains one of the main challenges of .NET applications. Every time we need to create a new configuration files, we find ourselves going to MSDN or similar websites and trying to figure out the structure of different configuration sections and the sad thing is that we
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Fixing .NET configuration hell with TeleSharp: Versioning configuration sections
Story:Bob is an IT Professional (ITPro) responsible for maintaining dozens of enterprise .NET applications. One day, Bob gets a call informing him that one of the applications he is responsible for have stopped working after some changes in the configuration were applied. After hours troubleshooting the application without any positive results, Bob decides to involve the developers who built the new version of the applications. A few hours later, one of the developers finally finds the configuration sections and component that introduced the. Bob wants to roll back the changes in the configuration file but he realizes that he doesn’t have a copy of the previous file and have to asks the developers to give him a copy of the old configuration file. Bob is very frustrated. Bob HATES .NET.
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Fixing .NET configuration hell with TeleSharp: Reusing configuration sections
Reusability, or the lack of it, is one of the main problems with the .NET configuration experience. How many times do we find ourselves creating the same configuration sections over and over again as part of our .NET applications? And then when those configuration settings change we have to go change it on 20 different places.
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Tellago announces Hermes: A publish-subscribe messaging engine based on HTTP and MongoDB
Today Tellago is very happy to announce the open source release of Hermes, a new publish-subscribe messaging technology based on MongoDB and RESTful Services.
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Tellago Studios webinar: Introducing TeleSharp
Tomorrow I will be presenting the first webinar about Tellago Studios’ TeleSharp. I would like to keep things very practical and will cover the following topics:
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Why .NET configuration management sucks and what can you do about it
Configuration management is one of the biggest problems of enterprise .NET applications. Since the first release of the .NET framework, configuration has been the main mechanism used by developers to model aspects of applications in a declarative way.