Testability and the means to abstract away your persistence layer in Windows Azure – two things that you don’t get for free. But you can get it really cheap, you just need some generics, interfaces. an IoC container and ~10 minutes. While coding for this post I used StructureMap (can be downloaded from NuGet) and [...]

When creating your first WorkerRole you probably have a particular task in mind. It could be to generate a report every night or perhaps to send a welcome mail to newly registered users. The problems begins when you have another task that needs a worker, or a third. What you don’t want to do is [...]

I currently have the luxury of starting out on a green field Azure project. Naturally you start out with the intention that this will be the project where everything is done right (let’s see how that goes) from start. Besides delivering what the customer wants, for me, done right includes well designed code, well tested [...]

Want an easy way to configure your Inversion of Control (IoC) container using an API? Don’t care one iota about which specific container you actually are using you just want to get the work done? Want to configure your IoC in a type safe manner? Read on and find out how! Scroll passed the background [...]