After deciding to migrate our current project to Castle Project's MonoRail , next came the task of going through the available documentation, forums and sample code to determine how best to integrate the MonoRail Project into our legacy application. What follows should serve as a solid tutorial if you...

[Updated 4/3/07 - Added recommendation to move add/remove methods to a custom collection.] While using NHibernate 1.0x, developers who wanted support for generics often turned to Ayende's Hibernate.Generics . Since the use of generics is now natively supported by NHibernate 1.2, you'll no longer need...

Congratulations to Thomas Eyde who is the winner of Challenge 3 ! Thomas has won a copy of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides along with a 3-user license pack for CodeIt.Once Refactoring . (The winner was randomly...

To my chagrin, my email server was trashing email sent to challenge3@emccafferty.com . (I was getting suspicious when I hadn't received any entries yet.) After a few configuration changes, the channels are again open for this email address. Please resubmit your entries to challenge3@emccafferty.com ...

If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is quite a bit overdue.) Now on to challenge 3... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! This challenge will pit your skills against the very useful State Design Pattern along with writing your own...

Congratulations to Michaël Willemot who is the winner of Challenge 2 ! Michaël has won a copy of Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET by Jimmy Nilsson along with a 3-user license pack for CodeIt.Once Refactoring . (The winner was randomly selected from all correct...

If you're not familiar with the Refactor It! challenges, please read this post . (Yes, this one is a little late in being published...but it's worth it!) Now on to challenge 2... Welcome back to another refactoring challenge! I'm excited about this week's challenge and am sure it'll be interesting and...

Congratulations to Rune Rystad who is the winner of Challenge 1 ! Rune has won a copy of Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams along with a 3-user license pack for CodeIt.Once Refactoring . (The winner was randomly selected from all correct entries received.) For the record...

For an overview of this contest, read this opening introduction . Now, onto this week's refactoring challenge... As Fowler's subtitle describes, refactoring is about "improving the design of existing code"; an introduction to the subject can be found at refactoring.com . This first challenge includes...

Each week, refactor my smelly project and win a free book along with a CodeIt.Once Refactoring tool 3-User license pack! Here's how it'll work ... Each week, beginning tomorrow, Nov. 13, a VS 2005 project will be provided which contains one or more specified "smells." The project may be a Windows App...