SubSonic to View and back again…adventures of a POCO

For a project I’m currently working on, we’re going to be implementing the repository pattern to provide a layer of abstraction and separation between our Model/Domain and the data access logic.  One of the things we’re being mindful of is that we don’t want to go toting around objects that include logic on how to [...]

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IPictureMarkerSymbols and IPictureDisp fun

I’ve been converting some GDI+ rendering code to use ESRI Graphics Layers…you know: IElement, ISymbol and all the usual suspects. The application environment I’ve been working in is a distributed app with many different clients and prior to my arrival on the project the decision was made that all custom symbologies would be serialized [...]

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Multi-threading musings

Recently, my team and I have been working on an SOA implementation that uses some relatively “expensive” ESRI COM objects within the services tier.  For example, instantiating an IWorkspace can take a long time, relatively speaking.  Since ArcObjects are COM-based, clearly multi-threading isn’t going to solve all of our problems due to the thread affinity [...]

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The Carbon Project expands their offering

Okay, okay…so I’ve pimped these guys out before but I’m gonna’ do it again.  I’m really impressed with what The Carbon Project has to offer and I see very little on the blogosphere to indicate to me that they’re gaining a wider audience.  (Although curiously I see when I Google them that ThinkGeo is taking a [...]

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Assembla…one kewl resource

As consultants, my team is seldom gathered all in the same place at the same time.  While we do have several large projects that frequently occupy many of us, we’ve got lots of smaller consulting gigs that keep us running around the greater Denver area a fair amount.  However, we all collaborate regularly on little [...]

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