Status Quo
In 2007 there was a movement in the .NET community dubbed “ALT.NET”. A community was formed by individuals who believed there to be a “better” way from the tooling, frameworks, practices and principles provided by Microsoft. The initial release of Linq to Entities (Entity Framework) was really a starting point for discussion since it did not support POCO’s and was not persistence ignorant. ALT.NET was about challenging the status quo. Although some might not be familiar with with the ALT.NET movement, you can thank it for helping the common practice of: Inversion of Control (Dependency Injection), Persistence Ignorant ORM’s, and… Read More »Status Quo