I think the metro stuff will be about as popular as WPF has been. Web apps appear to be the future of development, except in special cases where heavy resource usage is required (3D modeling, games, etc) and I don’t think you’ll see a metro version of those.

I do think the WinRT is a good think and although they made it seem like it is connected to the metro stuff it seemed more like a framework akin to the .NET framework to me. If so where does that leave the .NET framework?

CPU – Intel Core i7-2600K

Motherboard – ASUS P8Z68-V PRO

RAM – CORSAIR XMS 8GB DDR3 1600

Power Supply – CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX850

Hard Drive – OCZ Vertex 3 120G

Case – Antec Three Hundred Black Steel

Total Cost: Less than $1200

Total Satisfaction: 110%

My previous machine was also a dream and this one is even better than that.

I did end up doing an RMA on one of the motherboards and of course Newegg handled this very well. I couldn’t recommend them more.

In order to run the tool my build server all I had to do was copy those two files into my FxCop directory and viola, code metrics. In addition, you can also copy the FxCop directory to your build server so there isn’t even a requirement for FxCop to be installed with the installer. I find this helpful because the location of FxCop installed with Visual Studio is not the same as when installed with the Windows SDK.

Upon thinking about the architecture of IronRuby and IronPython I see what I consider to be a major design flaw. A design flaw that in my mind could be a good reason why Microsoft would abandon these languages. The design flaw I’m referring to is the notion of being able to bind to real Ruby and Python libraries. It seems to me that this feature alone would require more work and cause more headaches than any other feature. Personally as a .NET developer I don’t care about this feature. What I want is the Ruby language with a good interop story for .NET. I could care less if I can run Ruby on Rails on .NET. If I wanted to run Ruby on Rails, I would switch to Ruby on Rails. That use case just doesn’t make sense to me as a .NET developer.

What does make sense to me is being to use the power and flexibility of these languages with the amazing .NET framework. I love all the libraries in .NET. They are awsome and if they don’t have something I dowload a dll or two, slap them in a lib directory, add a reference and I’m off and running. In my opinion if this had been the focus, instead of running Rails on .NET, IronRuby and IronPython would have survived. Case in point is F#. Let’s be honest, my guess is not many .NET devs will be using F# any time soon. Sure some do and love it, but they are a micro minority, yet F# ships with Visual Studio! Why? Because it is just a language with a great .NET interop story.

So my challenge to the IronRuby and IronPython guys is to at least consider what I have to say, and if I were you I would drop the binding stuff for Ruby and Python. We as .NET devs don’t need to Rails or Django on .NET.

Thanks also to all those who have devoted their time and talents to .NET open source software.

- Randall

function f() { $(‘.new-tweets-bar’).trigger(‘click’); setTimeout(“f()”, 1000); } f();

If I had time I would make this an extension, but I don’t so just paste it in :)

UPDATE1 – This one is much better:

(function f() { $(‘.new-tweets-bar’).trigger(‘click’); setTimeout(f, 1000); })();

A design decision I made when creating this example was to remove as much complexity as possible, so that I could understand the architecture in its simplest form.  For instance, I decided to completely avoid anything to do with asynchronous processing.  In addition I have included unit tests showing how to do some basic testing.

All in all I have learned a tremendous amount from creating this example, and I would encourge anyone to do the same.  This example is not anything special and I’m sure I’ve done some things wrong, but hey that’s what life is all about right! :)

Example code: cqrs

CQRS Site

Excellent CQRS with Event Sourcing presentation by Greg Young

Excellent CQRS presentation by Udi Dahan

UPDATE 1: I changed all the instance ids to be stored as GUIDs instead of strings.

I posted the following question on stackoverflow:

Can’t use relative paths with areas in ASP.NET MVC 2

In my application I have an area call Mobile. In this area I have a folder call Assets where we place all our css, javascript and images.

Accessing the views works just fine. http://localhost/webapp/mobile/stuff

The problem is when I access my css, javascript and images.

I cannot do something like this in my view.

<img src="Assets/css/styles.css" />

The reason is because the real url is: http://localhost/webapp/areas/mobile/assets/css/styles.css

Is there a way to map http://locahost/webapp/areas/mobile to http://locahost/webapp/mobile for static files?

Thanks, Randall

I received a few answers, but non of them address my problem with wanting to basically rewrite the url for static resources, so I didn’t have to worry about using Url.Content or ../../../../ forever.  The solution I came up with was to use a simple IHTTPModule, that would rewrite the urls for me.  Here is the method I implemented for the BeginRequest event.

void BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var context = HttpContext.Current;
var path = context.Request.Path;
// Add Areas to the Mobile path, so we don't have to specify it manually.
// This is mainly for handling static resources that you place in areas.
if (!path.Contains("Mobile/")) return;
if (path.EndsWith(".png") ||
path.EndsWith(".gif") ||
path.EndsWith(".css") ||
path.EndsWith(".js") ||
path.EndsWith(".htm") ||
path.EndsWith(".cache"))
context.RewritePath(path.Replace("Mobile/", "Areas/Mobile/"));
}