http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:05:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en-US I've been tagged by Peter Morris and Jesper, simultaneously. Thus, without further ado, here are five things about me you may not know. 1. I have studied art at university for two semesters. That is, looking at paintings, not painting them. I wanted to do something different after I had finished ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2007/01/17/31405 We've been talking about some new ways to improve the ECO API using generics:T IEcoServiceProvider.GetEcoService<T>() This would allow you to retrieve e.g. the IOclService using serviceProvider.GetEcoService<IOclService>() rather than the more awkward (IOclService)serviceProvider.GetEcoService(typeof(IOclService)). Similarly,IList<T> IExtentService.AllInstances<T>() allows for code like foreach (Person p in extentService.AllInstances<Person>()). I like it. It leads to code that ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2006/12/13/30493 While doing a bit of summer cleaning in preparation of my vacation next week, I found an unfinished article about developing ECO applications with multiple packages. I decided to patch it up and post it here.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2006/06/27/25615 This article will describe how to partition an ECO application into multiple packages in ECO 3.   A model may be divided into packages, still within one project. This is primarily good for your own sanity, as it can make the model easier to survey and manage. Reuse of ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2006/06/27/25614 You have probably heard by now: WinFS is dead. Finally. Good riddance. It was vague, complex, and offered no clear value. I have been keeping half an eye on it since ObjectSpaces was killed^H^H^H^H^H^Hmerged into it. It now appears that the jinx has moved on to the Entity Data Model, a new ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2006/06/26/25590 I came upon this article about the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, which is a nice piece of advice about how software should be developed. It's a bit old, but I wanted to forward it nonetheless. I find myself in violent agreement; it rather accurately describes what has always been ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2006/03/13/23745 I have collected various pieces of not-so-obvious behaviour of the ECO code generator into a document. You can find it here.Share This | Email this page to a friend http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2006/03/01/23577 This article lists various issues, tips, and advanced uses regarding the code generation in ECO 3. I had collected them, originally thinking I would edit the document into something with more literary qualities than a grocery list. But now I've decided (after a friendly nudge from Jesper) to just dump ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2006/03/01/23576 I thought I'd share the following little bit of obscure ECO knowledge that I discovered "the hard way" just recently. Let's say we have a 0..* association end. Let's call it, with an ECO team member's usual lack of imagination, OwnedBuildings. Now, we want to delete all the objects therein, i.e. ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2005/09/12/21091 Steve Cook, one of Microsoft's guys behind Software Factories and Domain Specific Languages, wrote briefly about his view on metadata. I was reminded of the striking similarities between the underlying philosophies of ECO and SF. Modeling languages and runtime frameworks is a powerful combination and I expect that style of ... http://blogs.codegear.com/andersivner/2005/02/23/2741