Open-Source

Dependency Injection with Spring.Net

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:05:15 GMT

Good article on dependency injection using Spring.Net: http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/10918_3722931_1.

Open-source Distributed Pub/Sub Event System

Devin A. Rychetnik — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:46:03 GMT

This is a huge open-source contribution from Microsoft: http://www.codeplex.com/pubsub.

The Distributed Pub/Sub Event System is a solution for cross-process and/or cross-server scenarios where a large amount of event handshaking is required and low latency is important. Basically, this architecture was designed for speed.

Even if you can't think of a usage scenario for this code-base in your stack right now, I strongly encourage you to just crack open the source and take a look. I personally think the design is a prime example of true software engineering craftmanship, which is simply a thing of beauty.

By the way, I was the one who tested this bad boy before it was released. Therefore, I can't claim rights to the elegant design, but I can claim rights to some of the quality--hopefully not the lack thereof!

Open-source Web service Testing Tools

Devin A. Rychetnik — Tue, 15 May 2007 01:03:40 GMT

This article reviews three open-source web service testing tools that might be useful if you don't already have one: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/11/19TCwebservicetest_1.html.

Compression and Decompression in .NET

Devin A. Rychetnik — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:52:00 GMT

I came across this simple, but useful article demonstrating how to use the built-in .NET GZip compression/decompression capabilities. It also mentioned this SharpLibZip open-source compression/decompression library that would allow you to open the file easily using WinZip.

UPDATE: forgot to post the article link (whoops!) http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_data/sortinganditerating/article.php/c13375/

C# Wiki Engines

Devin A. Rychetnik — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 01:36:00 GMT

A nice list of Wiki Engines built in C#: http://csharp-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines.

iBATIS Data Persistence Layer for Java, .Net, & Ruby

Devin A. Rychetnik — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:09:00 GMT

What is iBATIS?

The iBATIS Data Mapper framework makes it easier to use a database with Java and .NET applications. iBATIS couples objects with stored procedures or SQL statements using a XML descriptor. Simplicity is the biggest advantage of the iBATIS Data Mapper over object relational mapping tools.

To use the iBATIS Data Mapper, you rely on your own objects, XML, and SQL. There is little to learn that you don't already know. With the iBATIS Data Mapper, you have the full power of both SQL and stored procedures at your fingertips.

http://ibatis.apache.org/

Castle Project Open-Source .Net

Devin A. Rychetnik — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:49:00 GMT

http://www.castleproject.org/

I am pretty impressed from what I've seen so far with the Castle Project. They offer an MVC framework, an object-to-relational persistence framework and a few other things. I looked through the examples and it seems like it is well-documented and pretty straightforward to use.