Pratik

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I am an experienced software architect/developer living in Melbourne, Australia.I am passionate about pragmatic architecture and solution design, solid development practices and code quality in enterprise development teams.

I am working on distributed systems and SOA (using WCF), legacy integration and modernisation, defining a .Net technology roadmap, application lifecycle management using TFS in my day job.

I started programming in C++ before moving on to C# about 6 years back and loving the language and .Net framework since then.

I am interested to learn from others and trying to share with the community interesting knowledge and information that I come across.

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2d	comment	Object Initializer in C# problem with readability Very good explanation. Also useful to remember that using may not work if the ctor of a 3rd party class that you don't control throws an exception. Then your only option is a try{..}finally{..}
May 26	comment	Why does DataContractJsonSerializer not include generic like JavaScriptSerializer? In case you don't know use json.net as it is superior to both json.codeplex.com
Mar 23	comment	Windows Phone 8 development on Windows 7 - is it or will be possible? @Tiby One of my team member uses stardock to get the start menu on windows stardock.com/products/start8 and quite happy with it. Their other product looks interesting as well stardock.com/products/modernmix/features.asp
Nov 4	comment	How to make creating viewmodels at runtime less painful There are frameworks like PRISM to create composite UI where view plug into views through DI and then communicate by pub/sub frameworks like MVVMLight. When I was doing some WPF dev about 1.5 years back a good resource with end-to-end example was joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/advanced-mvvm
Nov 2	comment	“Never do in code what you can get the SQL server to do well for you” - Is this a recipe for a bad design? My take is that get experienced and skilled SQL developers (not DBA) as part of the development team and then SQL becomes code as well with code review, coding standards etc. Then the question is whether code is deployed in the application or in database and that is a different issue already answered above. You wouldn't expect a Java developer to write idiomatic Ruby code so why do you also expect him to write good SQL.
Aug 31	comment	Using XML as data storage The question is unclear. Are you asking about storing data in an XML file instead of a DB or storing data inside a DB but as XML type. Further muddying is the example of .net config file as I don't see it as data storage.
Aug 22	comment	Is it a good idea to design an architecture thinking that the User Interface classes can be replaced by a command line interface? A lot of applications use a plugin model for scripting. Usually the object model is exposed and a language like python is used to write the scripts. I don't think command line parameters will work for a non-trivial app.
Aug 16	comment	Choosing the right license for a testing framework @MarkBooth While that may be correct the fact is most will not like to take the risk with GPL as it all comes down to interpretation of law with the risks of a legal fight involved. Specially if there are competitive products that are non-GPL open source.
Jul 4	comment	Is executing SQL through a WebService a really bad idea? If your webservices are just a thin wrapper over a database then you should give WCF DataServices a go with Entity Framework as your ORM. ALso you cannot expose a SqlDataReader over a web service.
Jul 1	comment	Examples of “Lost art” on software technology/development Visual Studio LightSwitch is the new FoxPro
Jun 22	comment	Are my negative internship experiences representative of the real world? Actually you will be lucky to pick even 2, most places just pick 1
Jun 17	comment	Is WCF suitable for writing an application which is shared among applications? I agree and if the ASP.Net applications and WCF services are on one machine use the namedpipe binding otherwise use net.tcp binding. This is especially good for case 2 which is a business requirement and rules can change in futire. For case 1 arguably you can do a DB level check as that is more of a technical issue.
Jun 17	comment	Is WCF suitable for writing an application which is shared among applications? And how do you know that all the ASP.Net applications are deployed on one machine. This is a poor solution that doesn't take into account distributed and load-balanced deployment. Also it is poor from security perspective as well. The 'safe folder' should have write permission by all the ASP.Net apps that may have different application pool identity. Not very good.
Feb 28	comment	What features in Eclipse is not available in Visual Studio? You can load/unload group of projects in visual studio using solution folders. Not same as working sets though.
Feb 28	comment	What features in Eclipse is not available in Visual Studio? Visual Studio 2011 will have similar things called quick launch. blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/02/23/…
Feb 1	comment	Source Control: Roles and Responsibilities - Best Practices I second Jamie, all the time spent merging or waiting for a merge to happen should be recorded so that you have evidence. There is no "best practice" that fits all companies. I have worked in large company where this task was done by a dedicated configuration management team. I my current company there is a dedicated release management team that doesn't do the physical job of merging to main but they are the logical owner and do audit it. But IMHO ops is not usually the one that touches source code.
Jan 12	comment	Is Entity Framework Code First a bit meaningless/useless in production and what is a good EF strategy for production? How do you handle case where StoredProcs or Views are created directly in the DB for other purposes e.g. reporting that are not used by the application. We would need to know which SPs are affected by a schema change in code first.
Jan 3	comment	How to fit testing in Scrum sprints and how to write user stories in Scrum @maple_shaft: That is easy to say but QA doesn't like a release in the middle of their testing. Also we checkin frequently with CI build but release is done on demand only. The current test team is not capable of writing automatic UI test. They do purely manual testing. This would be difficult for me to change.
Jan 3	comment	How to fit testing in Scrum sprints and how to write user stories in Scrum @S.Lott: Of course for the project we will make a team comprised of few devs, testers and BAs. But what i mean by team was rather departments, i.e. we have test dept and staff from their will be allocated to the project. Right now their standard is that a release has to be stable while it is being tested. i.e. We cannot release a new version until they have tested and we have fixed any bugs in the current version. If I take this concept to sprints does it mean that we only release after all stories have been developed ?
Dec 21	comment	What does a “bodyshop” (in context of a programming job /environment) mean @jfrankcarr - I have also worked for 12+ years and except while I was a contractor I have been given paid training, courses, conferences to improve my skills. If people don't improve their quality of work won't improve as also the soft skills. Good managers would recognize that.