Spring.NET superiority over MS Unity and Ninject - proven

I'm evaluating .NET-related technologies for the purpose of my latest project (desktop application for processing radiological and pathological images). Today I played with MS Unity and Ninject.

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Aspect Oriented Programming in .NET using PostSharp

PostSharp is claiming to be the most comprehensive AOP library in the .NET world. I gave it a try and I must to say that their claim is very well founded.

Read more to see PostSharp in action.

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MS Enterprise Library Logging

Yesterday I played a little bit with MS Enterprise Library Validation. Today I tried the Logging Application Block. I like it. The number of options is just overwhelming. You can log to files, rolling files, system diagnostics, database, SMTP, MS queues, WMI, WCF, and I probably missed a few more.

Today's post is a simple how-to post.

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MS Enterprise Library Validation

Last week I played around with Spring.NET Validation. Today I gave MS Enterprise Library a try. In my opinion it's much more powerful than Spring.NET's counterpart. Read below to see why.

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Spring.NET Validation

As a part of investigating .NET world I started playing around with Spring.NET. Today I will show you some basics of Spring.NET validation.

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Spring.NET and NUnit

As you already know I'm evaluating Spring.NET for a medical desktop software. I did a simple DI, AOP, internationalisation, and logging last week. I wrote about it here: First steps with Spring.NET.

Today I'll focus on testing.

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Testing .NET applications with Gallio

So far I was using MSTest to write and run/debug unit test for my .NET applications. Why? Because MSTest works out of the box in MS VS.

Last week I decided to try out NUnit. The meain reason was a problem with running MSTest tests on a build server. When you want to run MSTests on your build server, the build server complains about missing Microsoft.VisualStudio namespace. In order to run my MSTests on a build server I had to install MS VS! Which is obviously pretty sick.

The second reason was that once I started learning Spring.NET I decided that I would start writing tests in NUnit (Spring.NET supports both MSTest and NUnit).

The third one was simply to try out something which sounded Java-like :)

But this post is not about NUnit but Gallio.

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First steps with Spring.NET

I was appointed as Technical Architect for a C++ desktop (medical softoware) project lately. But it turned out that the customer changed his mind and decided to go ahead with C# instead. In our company we have .NET and C# Technical Architects, but the management decided that I will be Technical Architect for this project anyway.

So Java guy architecting a C# application. Nice.

As a part of evaluating .NET technologies I decided to try Spring.NET. No one in my company has used it before.

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