Confessions of a Professional Developer

Just a quick one today! This has probably been around for a while now but yesterday I had good cause to use this handy piece of functionality! The location tag within the web config file of your asp.net 4 website allows you to specify a location tag with a path attribute and set "web.config" style setting for just that single location! This is particularly handy if you need to set...

Whilst working on a simple data access layer using Sql Ce 4, POCO C# and using the Repository Pattern it occurred to me that when implementing a SaveChanges method that there was no real effective way to prevent a subsequent developer coming along and instantiating a new instasnce of some entity, directly setting the Id property and calling SaveChanges! I thought about nesting the...