ADO.NET Entity Framework is the Object Relational Mapping(ORM) framework from Microsoft which enables us to map .NET classes to objects(tables,views,stored procedures..etc) in a relational database.While studying any ORM framework it’s important to know about, how it handles concurrency and ensures data consistency.In this post we will look into what options ADO.NET Entity Framework provides for ensuring this consistency.... Read More

In my last two posts I had discussed about thread synchronization,critical sections and System.Threading.Monitor class.What we have seen is, a critical section in the code where thread synchronization is required is protected by a lock.When a thread encounters a critical section it tries to acquire the lock,if successful it executes the code or else waits to acquire the lock.Now when we say wait, what exactly happens?.There are two possible ways this can be done...Read More

In my earlier post I had discussed about the Common Service Locator framework (IServiceLocator interface)and how we can implement an adapter for the StructureMap container.In this post we will take look into how the new ASP.NET MVC provides support to plug in this ServiceLocator... Read More

For past couple of days I was checking out features of the new ASP.NET MVC Preview 3.There are couple of interesting new additions like integration with the new Razor viewengine,improvements in Model Validation,AJAX support and Dependency Injection.In this post we will discuss on, how ASP.NET MVC 3 has streamlined the ability to register/retrieve objects/services in a loosely coupled manner by incorporating support for the Common Service Locator framework... Read More

In my last post I started the discussion on race conditions and thread synchronization technique using Monitor/lock in C#.In this post also, we will continue with the same and discuss some important points related to the Monitor class...Read More