MVC and Entity Framework scaffolding is powerful, but I prefer to know what actually happens before accepting generated code. The code generated to update an entity when an edit has been done looked interesting, so I decided to have a closer look at it. When an edit is done to an entity, the data is… Continue reading Dissecting MVC Scaffolded Code for EF Updates
Author: Anders Abel
Lunch Company Lottery
I sent out an e-mail to the entire office (170 people) a couple of weeks ago: Are you back in the same old lunch habits, with the same people as always after the vacations? Take the chance to break of the habit and get to know a new colleague! You just have to accept this… Continue reading Lunch Company Lottery
Keep Public Interfaces away from Children
It is natural to think of the public methods and properties of a class as the public interface of the class. When implementing a class that is meant to be derived there is also another interface – the one meant for child classes. A clear separation of the two interfaces makes the code cleaner. The… Continue reading Keep Public Interfaces away from Children
Programming is more Qualified than Ever
Business software has automated many routine tasks. Is there anyone still doing accounting manually? The automation is also applied to software development itself, removing routine tasks and leaving the hard tasks to solve manually. 15 years ago I was thinking of what a future career as a programmer would look like. I didn’t know much… Continue reading Programming is more Qualified than Ever
Idempotent DB Update Scripts
An idempotent function gives the same result even if it is applied several times. That is exactly how a database update script should behave. It shouldn’t matter if it is run on or multiple times. The result should be the same. A database update script should be made to first check the state of the… Continue reading Idempotent DB Update Scripts