Implementing a different kind of Service Pattern

For the past few months I've investigated many different types of patterns I can implement in my projects; like Repository Patterns, Unit of Work Patterns, Service Patterns etc. After plenty of research, late nights and a gazillion units of black coffee; I finally came across a some sort of hybrid solution that works for me in many different scenarios.

Being aware that a specific pattern to follow is purely dependant on the particular solution, I wanted to be comfortable with a rock solid "generic" implementation that can be used across many types of applications like ASP.NET MVC, WPF, Silverlight & WindowsPhone.

The main reason for this was to make the code more unit testable using mock-ups, this can be implemented easier because everything is very loosely coupled and is utilising the beauty of dependency injection (DI).

Jump Start your next project with Nuget

In between the company end-year functions, demanding clients and of course my fabulous life :) , I've deceided to do some blogging again. In fact, it's been a while since any Ninja laid a finger on a keyboard here, (or an iThing)...

A while ago I came across a cool little thing called "NuGet" (pronounced new-get). No, it's not the kind of things you get from Mc Donalds. According to the website, NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update [open source] libraries and tools in Visual Studio. But, I believe they're being modest. It's way more cooler than what meets the eye.

How the hardcore ninja's receive specs

A really handy "cheat-sheet" for Razor

I came across this cool syntax table that can come in quite handy when one is working with Razor in ASP.NET: