In my current Silverlight 4 project I use a variation of the CQRS pattern where business-oriented commands are used to create, update or change the data, while WCF Data Services (formally ADO.NET Data Services) is used as a general-purpose query service.
Although WCF Data Services has been designed with the Entity Framework in mind, my desire to use an advanced ORM with features like 2nd level caching has let me to Shawn Wildermuth's attempt to support NHibernate as a WCF Data Service provider, now part of Linq.NHibernate. But regardless of all the goodness of NHibernate, not everything went as smooth as I hoped for.
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As I already mentioned in my previous post, we're building a line-of-business app using Silverlight 4 and WCF Data Services. I really think Silverlight is great for those kind of systems, but since it is based on a different run-time as the full .NET framework, you may wonder what you'll run into when practicing TDD, relying on IoC or using a mocking framework.
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A few weeks ago I had a chat with Paul Janssen, CEO of a small Eindhoven-based company named Tiobe. You might indirectly know Tiobe for its programming language index and their commercial code checker ClockSharp. But they have also been hosting a C# Coding Standard I co-wrote for Philips Medical Systems for over seven years. He mentioned that it is still downloaded 4000-5000 times per month. However, he recently received some remarks that the current standard is rather outdated and was pointed at my efforts at www.csharpcodingguidelines.com.
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Since there is not much documentation about Windows Identity Foundation and how to configure it, I decided to write a post about the meaning of the configuration sections of microsoft.IdentityModel.
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