May 2009 Entries

Quick take on Bing

I’ve been playing around with Microsoft’s new, yet to be released, search engine (bing.com) for the last couple of days.  Miguel Carrasco has done a pretty detailed review of it’s capabilities here.  I don’t see the point in me re-hashing his findings so I’m going to point out some things that I’ve noticed and liked. Image Search Paging The best thing about the paging model on image searches is that there isn’t any.  Yah, no longer do you have to click through the page numbers or “Next” button/links on the bottom of the current page.  Instead, with Bing...

A little more WCF NHibernate

As part of my recent changes to the WCF-NHibernate code I have, I declared that there wasn’t going to be a way to handle automatic transaction rollbacks when WCF faults were going to be raised.  I wasn’t even sure that I wanted them in tool.  Andreas Öhlund pointed out that rollback could be handled quite nicely using the IErrorHandler interface within WCF.  After some toying around with the idea and some proof-of-concept implementations, I decided to add this ability in. Currently you identify a WCF service as using the NHibernate code by adding a [NHibernateContext] attribute to the *.svc.cs file. ...