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Being able to configure an existing object resolving all its dependencies sometimes can be useful, but it can indeed be dangerous because you are mixing two different techniques of creating and managing objects lifecycles, I will not discuss why this

Working on solutions based on IoC systems and for our recent DotNetMarche workshop, in which we shown how you can architect a solution based on these systems and some advantages you can have using AOP techniques, I wanted to update the actual Castle

Silverlight 3 introduced to us a good navigation framework: you could combine Frames and UriMapper objects to change portion of your page (or the entire page) on the fly allowing you to navigate to different section of your application. There are ple

In my last post I shown you how to build a simple logging framework for Silverlight applications and use it with an IoC container through ‘constructor injection’, well…in my opinion I consider that a bad programming practice. In short when using a De

As your Silverlight projects grow complex you’ll soon start to feel the need to have a solid logging system. In my WPF and Windows Forms project I’m now used to have Castle Windsor + Log4Net as my logging system and I really miss it in my Silverlight

This is a simple tip, I’ve used the Castle Windsor NHibernate Integration Facility to build up the data access services in one of the projects I’m working on, I also wanted to use the NHibernate SchemaExport utilities to build up the database from sc

When a version of Castle Windsor able to run in Silverlight was released I started to play with it, basically because I have a lot of code that use it inside my line of business infrastructure framework. I’m working on a WPF/Silverlight solutio...

This is a typical scenario: you have a remote service (a database a web service...anything) which can have connection problems; obviously you don’t want your application to crash the desired behavior can be to retry the operation for a couple o...

I’m not a Castle Windsor expert and I started using it heavily some months ago. These days I’m profiling some of the applications I wrote in the past to try to optimize the memory usage and reduce the footprint they allocate. Using some profil...

I have to admit I am not a huge fan of the automatic proxy generated code that you can obtain with svcutil.exe or using a standard Visual Studio service reference; mainly because it’s bloated with a lot of unneeded code, especially if you devel...