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Using Inversion of Control in MonoDroid Applications

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gshackles 898 days, 13 hours, 37 minutes ago

Just because a mobile application needs to be (or should be, in most cases) small and lightweight doesn’t mean we should set aside best practices like Inversion of Control containers when building our apps. With so many options out there for .NET containers, which ones should we use? In this article I’ll go over some good options I’ve found for using dependency injection in MonoDroid applications. (more)

category: Architecture | clicked: 12 | comment | | source: www.gregshackles.com

tags: Mono, IoC, Inversion of control, Funq, tinyioc, dependency injection, Android

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Quick Add Reference Extension for Visual Studio 2010 | GrumpyDev

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As I have blogged about in the past, the Add Reference dialog in Visual Studio is still pretty terrible in VS2010. Various extensions have made it more bearable by providing search support and other enhancements, but now you can avoid it completely (most of the time) with an excellent extension from Clarius Consulting. (more)

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tags: VS2010, add reference

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Optional Parameters in C#4, C#3 and VB.Net, With a Side Order of IL Quirks | GrumpyDev

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One of the features C# has gained in it’s latest V4 incarnation is the ability to work with optional parameters. Now VB.Net (and the underlying IL) has had this ability for sometime, but as it’s new to C# folks, and causing a little confusion; I’m going to attempt to explain how it works, when it works and the potential gotchas. I’ll also cover a strange inconsistency between the the VB and C# compilers when it comes to named parameters. (more)

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tags: C#, VB.NET, ildasm, Named Parameters, CSharp 4.0, Optional Parameters, CSharp, IL

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Locating Network Services on the iPhone/iPad with MonoTouch | GrumpyDev

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http://www.grumpydev.com/ 1180 days, 12 hours, 42 minutes ago

Locating Network Services on the iPhone/iPad with MonoTouchIntroduction For one of the little iPhone project I’m working I need to communicate with with a server on the local network. That all sounds very simple, but what I really want to be able to do is detect all instances of this service on the local network, and give the user the option of which one to connect to at runtime. In WCF land we could leverage WCF Discovery, but in the world of MonoTouch, and even in .NET 3.5, we don’t have that luxur... (more)

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tags: MonoTouch, UDP, service location, sockets

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Announcing: TinyMessenger | GrumpyDev

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Announcing: TinyMessengerIntroduction Just a small post to announce I have added, and finally documented, TinyMessenger to the TinyIoC project.Tiny What-Now? TinyMessenger provides an event aggregator/messenger for loosely coupled communication. Some scenarios where this may prove useful :Communication between Controllers/ViewModels. Service classes raising “events”. Removing responsibilities from classes that receive external events (such as the AppDelegate in an iPhone application). Decoupling commun... (more)

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tags: Event Aggregator, tinyioc

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Why is Add Reference Still Horribly Broken in VS2010? | GrumpyDev

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Why is Add Reference Still Horribly Broken in VS2010?Introduction We all know Add Reference is horribly broken in VS2008. We’ve all clicked it and had our hearts sink as we realised it was time to make a brew, grab lunch or take a weekend mini-break before even attempting to use Visual Studio again. Now VS2010 is in Release Candidate it’s obviously been fixed.. hasn’t it?!Not All Change Is For the Better The main issue with the VS2008 Add Reference dialog was that it took an age to load, mostly due to ... (more)

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tags: Visual Studio, add reference, vs2020

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Automated “Unit” Testing – It’s Not Just for TDD, It’s for Bug Fixing Too! | GrumpyDev

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http://www.grumpydev.com/ 1198 days, 12 hours, 25 minutes ago

Automated “Unit” Testing – It’s Not Just for TDD, It’s for Bug Fixing Too! Disclaimer – What I’m discussing here isn’t unit testing (hence the quotes), it’s more functional or integration testing; but as the term “Unit Testing” is often “abused” to mean “anything that uses a (unit) testing framework” so I’ve included it in the title to avoid confusion.Introduction I’m currently using TinyIoC in my first forays into MonoTouch development, and my initialisation code was throwing a resolution error on sta... (more)

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tags: C#, Debugging, Testing, tinyioc, unit testing

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Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container | GrumpyDev

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Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control ContainerIntroduction Whenever I start a new “pet” project I usually want to use IoC, but I don’t really want the hassle of taking a dependency on a container, or adding another binary to my project. Usually this leaves me using “poor man’s IoC”, whereby I define dependencies in my constructors, but I pass them in manually or construct them using constructor chaining. I’ve thought for some time that it would be useful to put toge... (more)

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tags: IoC, Inversion of control, CSharp

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Moving a Repository from SVN to Mercurial With Full History | GrumpyDev

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http://www.grumpydev.com/ 1206 days, 12 hours, 15 minutes ago

I keep all of my pet projects in my own Subversion repository but I’ve recently decided to give this distributed version control shenanigans a whirl. I ummed and arred about Git or Mercurial, but in the end I plumped for Mercurial, with a bitbucket account, as it seems to have more ubiquitous support. I’m about to release a project I’ve been working on for the last week or so and thought it would be nice to release it via bitbucket – complete with the version history I’d build up in Subversion. (more)

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tags: Convert, Mercurial, Subversion, hg, Source Control

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So What Is This “Thread Safe” Thing Anyway? | GrumpyDev

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So What Is This “Thread Safe” Thing Anyway?Introduction Following on from my previous post about a “Thread Safe” Dictionary, and the subsequent comment from Rajeesh, made me think that perhaps a general post on “thread safety” was in order.Stop With the Quotes Already! The astute amongst you may notice I always try and put the phrase “thread safe” in quotes; and there is a good reason for that! “Thread safe” is a pretty horrible term (although I can’t think of a better one) that doesn’t really give eno... (more)

category: How To | clicked: 0 | 1 comment | | source: www.grumpydev.com

tags: C#, locking strategies, CSharp, Concurrency

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“Thread safe” Dictionary(TKey,TValue) | GrumpyDev

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“Thread safe” Dictionary(TKey,TValue)Introduction A pet project I’m currently working on requires the use of an internal Dictionary to store “registered” data, which is a pretty common requirement. For this particular project I’d like to at least attempt to make it “thread safe” on .NET 3.5, with an eye to moving it to the ConcurrentDictionary in .NET 4 which promises not only thread safety, but more granular locking to increase multi-threaded performance. A simple enough task, but one that I’ve seen... (more)

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tags: C#, CSharp 4.0, CSharp, Concurrency

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Using Inversion of Control in MonoDroid Applications

Quick Add Reference Extension for Visual Studio 2010 | GrumpyDev

Optional Parameters in C#4, C#3 and VB.Net, With a Side Order of IL Quirks | GrumpyDev

Locating Network Services on the iPhone/iPad with MonoTouch | GrumpyDev

Announcing: TinyMessenger | GrumpyDev

Why is Add Reference Still Horribly Broken in VS2010? | GrumpyDev

Automated “Unit” Testing – It’s Not Just for TDD, It’s for Bug Fixing Too! | GrumpyDev

Announcing: TinyIoC – An Easy to Use, Hassle Free, Inversion of Control Container | GrumpyDev

Moving a Repository from SVN to Mercurial With Full History | GrumpyDev

So What Is This “Thread Safe” Thing Anyway? | GrumpyDev

“Thread safe” Dictionary(TKey,TValue) | GrumpyDev

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