ORM: Should I go Micro?

We had an interesting internal discussion about ORMs (Linq to SQL, Entity Framework, …) and MicroORMs (Dapper, Massive, PetaPoco, …). This discussion led me to think about: When should I use a MicroORM?

I would go for the approach: Use both (MicroORM and BigORM) and use them where they make sense.

It's official: Manual deployments are BAD, Automated Deployments are a WIN!

*Updated* 14 November 2011: Video is not on vimeo anymore but on tv.ssw.com

 

The video video recording of my talk "Continuous Delivery with TFS, msbuild and msdeploy" is finally online.

Please say
"Thanx" to Raj.
Thanks to Adam Cogan for introducing me so nicely, he almost got my last name right this time Winking smile

The video is on tv.ssw.com -> which just launched BTW and is a great learning resource)  
and embedded here


Figure: Video recording of Continuous Delivery - SSW Sydney User Group - Peter Gfader

 

Have fun and send me some feedback

 

My related blog posts about Continuous Delivery

  1. The pain with deployments can be found in this blog post.
  2. How to and some tips and tricks for TFS2010 regarding deployment

The slides are on SlideShare

Avoid the debugger like the pest

In this post I want to explain why I don't like debugging, and prefer instead to use unit testing where I work in tiny sections.
To put this post in context, can first I encourage you to read:

I wait here in the meantime Winking smile

VS2010 - Debugging not working

We just faced an interesting problem on one of our dev's computers.
He is not able to debug any VS2010 solution: Windows Forms, WPF, Web Forms… There is no chance to debug anything on his 64bit machine.

Problem:

  1. Add breakpoint
  2. Hit F5 on your project
  3. Break point doesn't get hit

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