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passing keys vs passing instances and the versioned business object problem

Published 03-30-2007 7:08 PM | jokiz

i once joined a team in developing a procurement/bidding system in ASP.NET. it involved "project for bidding" creation, contractor's profile management (with lots of document uploads), and bid evaluation as the core functionalities. contractors have the...

Filed under: SQL, oop

Encapsulation vs Testability

Published 09-14-2006 7:39 PM | jokiz

Reference articles: Why use private or protected Testability I am fond of Rocky Lhotka 's CSLA framework before and when i shifted to be test-driven, there are some constructs in CSLA that i'm beginning to dislike. I like the broken rule tracking...

Filed under: CSLA, oop, tdd

datasets vs business objects

Published 04-20-2006 9:09 PM | jokiz

i came across a discussion just this afternoon which leads to this good old issue. my take, just like every other guru out there would say, it's a balance and never one over the other. there are scenarios where it is suitable to use datasets, there are...

Filed under: .NET, oop

OOP-Encapsulation issues

Published 11-08-2005 11:14 PM | jokiz

As I was refactoring some of our codes, what struck me was the idea of object oriented programming particularly encapsulation. For example, we have this Customer object which is distinct with its CustomerID property. We needed to have versioning for the...

Filed under: .NET, design guidelines, oop

Expert C# Business Objects by Rocky Lhotka

Published 04-08-2005 9:44 AM | jokiz

I just got this book and hopefully I will learn a lot from it. I want to know about his framework, perhaps use it in one of my personal projects and learn from it, particularly the design considerations that Rocky considered in designing the CSLA.NET...

Filed under: .NET, CSLA, oop