August 2009 Blog Posts

So my lovely wife checks the news occasionally from our old stomping grounds (Portland, OR).  There is now an Internet Addiction Recovery program somewhere north of Portland. Here’s the link to the article. Apparently if you spend lots of time on the computer, you’re addicted.  The article points to the recovery program’s web site here.  I’m very intrigued by their site’s menu: Just In case you’re not noticing: Oh that’s good.  Blogs, Facebook, Twitter… And I thought Big Tobacco was bad… For fun, here’s a screenshot of their...

So, I have been using SubSonic on a project, and love it.  It is absolutely a fantastic quick-data-access-layer solution, and far, far easier to use than CodeSmith + netTiers.  However, one limitation that the CodeSmith + netTiers solution provided, which was very nice to have, are auto-generated enums from enum tables. I threw something together here which does the job.  I have my DAL generated by SubSonic in its own project, then have this run post-build, then ILMerge, to create a “final” DAL assembly that contains current table enums in it. Basically, the strategy was simple: use a...