Most of us probably don’t think about the developer who will maintain our code. Until recently, I did not consider him either. I never intentionally wrote obtuse code, but I also never left any breadcrumbs. Kent Beck on good programmers: Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that…
Category: Code
Implementing Transparent Encryption with NHibernate Listeners (Interceptors)
Have you ever had to encrypt data in the database? In this post, I’ll explore how using nHibernate Listeners to encrypt and decrypt data coming from and going into your database. The cryptography will be transparent to your application. Why would you want to do this? SQL Server has encryption baked into the product. That…
Missing Management Delegation Icon in IIS
It’s critical this is done first. Web deploy may not install correctly if it’s installed with the Management Service icon missing. Check IIS for the Management Delegation icon, it’ll be under the Management section. If it’s missing run the following commands. Windows 2012 dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-WebServerRole dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-WebServerManagementTools dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:IIS-ManagementService…
Calling Stored Procedures with Code First
One of the weaknesses of Entity Framework 6 Code First is the lack of support for natively calling database constructs (views, stored procedures… etc). For those who have not heard of or used Code-First in Entity Framework (EF), Code-First is simply a Fluent mapping API. The idea is to create all your database mappings in…