I’m a big fan of pushing common concerns down into the infrastructure and framework of an application so that developers can easily leverage them. One such concern that may come in a web application is displaying status messages, such as “Record Saved” or “There was a problem communicating with the database”. My initial attempt at…
try-catch-FAIL
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Month: <span>October 2010</span>
A More Fluent API For AutoMapper
I love AutoMapper. I’ve used it in virtually every ASP.NET MVC application I’ve ever worked on. It has saved me countless lines of tedious code, and it’s quite smart at inferring the correct mappings. However, my one complaint is that the API for specifying the more complicated mappings is, in a word, ugly. It’s flexible,…