Sujith's Blog

In this article I am going to walk through an application using WPF and Prism (aka composite application guidance, CAG) which simulates engaging a taxi (cab). 

This document is for my own reference, a collection of resources I have gathered trying to understand design patterns and guidelines.

I am going to write series of articles using Windows Communication Framework (WCF) to develop client and server applications and this is the first part of that series.

Resharper comes with live templates (ctrl + j) or surround with templates (ctrl+ alt + j) which helps with few key strokes and can save you considerable time over a period of day.

In a typical WCF client-service application, the client initiates the requests and waits for the response from  service. If the service doesn’t respond in the preconfigured intervals the client will error out with an exception similar to the following exception: 

LLBLGenPro is an object relational mapper which generates code for the data access layer from the database, in the coming releases it’s been planned to engineer from LLBL Project to create database. I am using v2.6 in my current project and happy with it so far. One of the strong points of v2.6 is it has good Linq support.

ReSharper is a VS.Net Plug-in that gives you solution wide error analysis with lots of refactoring features.

One of the features introduced along with .Net framework 3.5 is Extension methods which allows to extend a class by adding new methods without actually deriving from the class or changing the source code.  They are extremely handy to extend multiple classes by extending the common interface, .. ok lets take them one at a time.