In the first part of this series we didn’t really look at the MVC framework. We talked about what it is and what it does but didn’t look at any code. We did however plan out what we wanted our application to do and created our database schema that will support our application. In this part we are going to jump in and get an MVC Application created and look at the Model portion of the application. We’ll create our domain objects and data repositories. It is important to note that I will be using the Repository Pattern with Pipes and Filters Pattern. So we’ll have our data repositories and their relevant filters. We will then create data service objects that encapsulate the repositories. Also, I will be using LINQ To SQL to interact with the database. If you prefer a different method of data access feel free to use something else. Finally, before we get started, I will not be writing unit tests for this series, at least not showing them in the posts, in order to keep things simple and to keep the posts from getting too long.

The eighth post of the series of programming job interview challenge is out. 68 readers provided answers to job interview challenge #7 and most of them had the correct solution. As rvh mentioned, the trick here was to understand that the round table has a symmetric shape and: Actually this algorithm isn’t limited to just a round table. It will work with any shape that is symmetric with respect to both x and y axes. I couldn’t describe the correct answer better than Yoav Zobel, as he was the first one who also formally proved his algorithm:

The Correct answer (as provided by Yoav Zobel):

Lately I took part in several code reviews and I noticed that whenever people need to extract the month name from the datetime object many different solutions are presented. Some of the solutions were not very successful, so I decided to shed some light on this issue through an example.
These are the most common (and [...]

We all know the pattern to declare an event in C#, fairly easy, here is a remainder:
1: public class EventTest
2: {
3: public event EventHandler MyEvent;
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