I could, and will soon, write a long ass post about how I cobbled together a messed-up architecture for building Silverlight applications on top of an enterprise class SOA architecture without RIA but with RIA… Here is a branch of AutoMapper, compiled against Silverlight and now with support for entities generated from WCF service references. http://github.com/detroitpro/AutoMapper.Silverlight I really hope I published it to GitHub correctly; yell at me if not.

Most of my work so far this year has been with one client. This client was a Java shop for quite some time and is pretty green to Microsoft. Also, they don’t seem to ever have had real success with building enterprise class systems. That’s not to say that they haven’t wrote very large and very complex systems. They have done it all with either the bare minimum in tooling or a incorrect implementation of the tooling. In fact; one of their primary reasons for moving to .NET was to perform a tooling reset. They decided it was too hard to use technology like OR/M, DI, Messaging, and MVC. The...

I did a short demo of automapper for dimecasts.net. Take a look what do you think? Ha! Dimecasts.net is my phonebook! Ha!