Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Let me start by introducing myself. My name is Michael, I am 35 years of age and currently sole contributor to the Cuemon .NET Framework Additions project, which was first released in 2008.
The main reason for the project back in the days was to:
- Have a simple, logical and every-day usage additions to the Microsoft .NET Framework that help solves trivial matters
- Support XML and XSLT in traditional web pages
- Having a way of defining business entities
- Having an abstract repository for storage of data for business entities
- Ease the usage of XML related operations
- Follow the highly acclaimed book "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries" by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams
Today this assembly library has grown every so large and continuous to add new ways to extend the .NET Framework from version 2.0 with SP1 and forward; and I will strive to keep it targeted this platform as many projects still rely on this framework version - with a good reason; the CLR is robust, flexible and versatile - and up to this date - even with .NET Framework 4.5, the CLR in 2.0 and 4.0 is very similar to one another.
The Microsoft architects and engineers really did an excellent job with the .NET Framework and i sincerely hope it will inspire others as it did me.
That being said, let me go to the purpose of this blog; it is created to support the Cuemon project with motives and background for implementing an idea, the route to an idea, explanation of how and why i choose to do things the way i do, walk through of the assembly family members and hopefully input from visitors to this blog with feedback as well as new ideas.
