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Diary of a Death March: Christian's Story

February 25th They called me back! I was starting to fear that I'd never get another job as a programmer, and yet someone offered me an position! No more unemployment for me! Sure, it's less money than my last place was paying me, but I can't be picky in these

Loading Entity Framework Related Entities with AutoMapper and Reflection

In a previous post [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-and-wcf-mapping-entities-to-dtos-with-automapper/] I mentioned how we would be using AutoMapper [http://automapper.org/] to create Data-Transfer Objects [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_transfer_object] out of Entity Framework entities; the DTOs would then be transmitted over a WCF service. Well, as often

Geocoding with Bing Maps REST Services in .NET

A major project we're working on in my team (which I've alluded [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/entity-framework-and-wcf-mapping-entities-to-dtos-with-automapper/] to before [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/dapper-vs-entity-framework-vs-ado-net-performance-benchmarking/] ) requires that we implement geocoding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocoding] for a given address. Sponsored by #native_company# #native_desc# #native_cta# This means that,

Being a Better Lead Developer

I've mentioned before that I'm what my company calls a "lead" developer, which means I'm in charge of projects, not people [http://www.exceptionnotfound.net/are-programmers-afraid-of-losing-control-over-their-code/] . It is my responsibility to assign work, conduct code reviews, divvy up tasks, etc. It may sound like this position means doing a lot

Mapping Entity Framework Entities to DTOs with AutoMapper

We can use AutoMapper to mape EF-created classes to data transfer objects. Here's how!

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