18 September, 2009. It was a Friday. I’m getting more and more requests around the area of two-way mapping, meaning you’d do something like: Product being an entity, I can’t for the life of me ...

27 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. Early on in the CQRS/ES days, I saw a lot of questions on modeling problems with event sourcing. Specifically, trying to fit every square modeling problem into the ...

21 October, 2016. It was a Friday. I pushed out a new repository, Contoso University Core, that updated my “how we do MVC” sample app to ASP.NET Core. It’s still on full .NET framework, but I also ...

13 October, 2016. It was a Thursday. A while ago, I blogged about using MediatR to build a processing pipeline for requests in the form of commands and queries in your application. MediatR is a ...

26 September, 2016. It was a Monday. Sue is a software engineer at BetterSoft. She is in charge of starting a new project which includes building up the CI/CD pipeline for the new application her team ...

note the last line declaring the ENTRYPOINT. The syntax I have chosen in the above sample is one possible way of declaring the entry point. An alternative syntax is using an array of words, i.e.

20 July, 2016. It was a Wednesday. Part of the release of ASP.NET Core is a new DI framework that’s completely integrated with the ASP.NET pipeline. Previous ASP.NET frameworks either had no DI or ...

The complex mappings had the biggest variation, but across the board AutoMapper is *much* faster than previous versions. Sometimes 20x faster, 50x in others. It’s been a ton of work to get here, ...

In this post I am going to show step by step how to install a local version of Windows Server 2016 TP5 in Hyper-V and how to configure it to be a container host. It is still not straight forward to ...

29 April, 2016. It was a Friday. A common question I get asked, especially around a vertical slice architecture, is where does validation happen? If you’re doing DDD, you might want to put validation ...

7 April, 2016. It was a Thursday. Specifically note how we expose port 80. This will be important once we use a load balancer in front of the sample application in the cloud. We can now build this ...

This post is part of the series about Implementing a CI/CD pipeline. Please refer to this post for a full table of content. Our company is a heavy user of TeamCity [TC]. We use TC for almost all our ...