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Asked: 2026-05-18T09:41:19+00:00

Brief blurb, My skill in .net has been called innovative but I would prefer

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Brief blurb,

My skill in .net has been called “innovative” but I would prefer it be exemplary. Basically, I need a mentor. I own the domain name codeologist.com and I am going to live up to that name but in order to do so I need a mentor & community.

On to the questions:

  1. Entity Framework – I’d imagine this is an intense framework mapping objects from a factory while retaining the integrity and state of objects within the system. At least, that’s what I can intuit from about 15 minutes of a podcast I listened to. RTFM I know but is that a correct general assessment?

  2. Enterprise Library – Killer. Used most blocks at least as example applications.

  3. Domain Driven Design – What are some tricks to going from thinking like an ERD/ORM to domain driven design? Pros vs. Cons?

  4. Agile vs. SCRUM – Is there a difference really?

  5. Unit testing – The last thing I think of. Can’t get automated web ui testing setup correctly also need help with NAnt/MSBuild scripts from a VSS 2005 repository. A full example in source would be really nice, perhaps including scheduling.

  6. Bare essential TSQL – What is considered the bare minimum professional grade TSQL statements for enterprise development? Like ROWCOUNT, TRANSACTION, ROLLBACK, flow control statements, in-line sql & security concerns for CRUD methods.

  7. It is conceivable to integrate MVC2/3, Entity Framework, Enterprise Library and SilverLight web front ends? Even perhaps Sharepoint?

  8. I asked a guy I met once when should I use Linq, his reply was “always use the force”.

  9. When learning a new language what games/apps do you write? What are some good exercises for those about to code? (We salute you!)

  10. What books would you recommend for general programming theory, enterprise architecture & business analysis?

Ok probably no one will respond but these are burning questions I’ve had in my gut and I just had to get all that out.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I cannot answer all of your questions, but I will take a shot at a few of them

    1. (Question 1) Basically your assessment sounds right. It could also be said that EF ‘abstracts away’ the SQL that is otherwise needed to persist data to a persistent (generally a disk drive) store.

    2. (Question 7) Yes. However, it has been my experience that many (if not most) software developers are unable or unwilling to deal with that many different technologies concurrently. The average Stack Overflow member does NOT suffer from this particular malady.

    3. (Question 8) That guy is right. LINQ rocks. Everytime you can replace a foreach loop with a LINQ statement your code gets easier to read and maintain. Remember LINQ (Lambdas) can be used for much more than querying databases. The LINQ syntax to sort a collection is as simple as sorting in SQL statements, but has the added advantage of being able to sort in memory. Learn LINQ completely, it is your friend.

    4. (Question 9) I usually dive right into a real work project. Then refactor after I’ve lerned a few things. The best learning comes from doing. You learn more from doing it wrong, seing the problem and making it right than any other methodolgy I know.

    5. (Question 10) There two books have been around a while but are still important.
      Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software
      This book is commonly referred to as the ‘Gang of Four’ or GOF book.
      and
      Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler

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