As many of you know I have made some strong statements in the past regarding ORMs (in fact I’ve probably lost readers over it). Recently in my day job , I was given two projects that I decided to use an ORM for (and I used different ones each time). I used the writings of my fellow blogger, David...

[Please excuse me as I'm trying to get my blogging form back... With the life juggling I've been doing lately, I've not been able to really devote myself to blogging the way I would like to] I had a friend of mine remind me about Eric's Domain Manager Pattern (which is found here ). I had yet to read...

[I retitled this post. Admittedly the original idea was a little hairbrained... It was too early in the morning, I was contemplating a problem that is mentioned in the comments, and quite frankly I hadn't fully thought through everything... I will leave the rest of the post alone (and the comments)....

[I've begun to do a few more C# projects and so I bought a couple books on the subject. I'm going to start writing down a few observations along the way]. About a year ago I had someone tell me that the optional keyword in VB (used to define optional parameters) is something that really shouldn't be...