Mike Diehl's WebLog

Udi Dahan, the “Software Simplist” has recently commented on my questions about shared/static methods. Today he added a blog entry on “How to do SOA?”

I built an ASP.NET application that has a number of query criteria fields that the user enters data in, then clicks the Go button to postback to the server to fill a grid.

One of my co-workers is designing an enterprise software architecture and is finding that most of the method calls in classes that form the Business Facade layer are stateless. He is proposing, then, to use Shared methods (in VB.NET, or static methods in C#) as a coding standard.

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This week I am working on bug fixes for an Access/SQL database application, for a new client. This application was written by a different consultant, and I hope I never meet this person.

I'm learning about asynchronous design patterns in .NET and found David Hills article.

Jon Caves, compiler guy for Microsoft, has moved his blog onto weblogs.asp.net and I saw his first few posts on the main feed tonight.