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As I’ve worked with Azure over the last 18 months there is a bunch of plumbing I’ve found to be commonplace but with which, other than effort, their is little inherent intellectual property value. Examples include dependency injectable patterns for resource access, configuring components across multiple projects and servers, deployment, separation of concerns, sending emails, fault diagnosis and a management dashboard, to name just a few.
The AccidentalFish.ApplicationSupport framework is my attempt to bring solutions to these common requirements into a reusable package in order to bootstrap my own, and hopefully others, future work. The code is all purpose written specifically for this framework and with reuse in mind and it’s heavily focussed on an asynchronous programming model.
Different parts of the framework are at different states of maturity but moving quite quickly as since deciding to author this code as a framework I’m using it in this form in two personal projects, one of which is the previously alluded to companion application for this website.
The framework itself continues to evolve as I continue to learn more about Azure and as Azure itself moves forward and it’s covered by the permissive MIT License so is free to use in open source and commercial applications. The source code can be found on GitHub.
Documentation is currently scant but that is a priority for me – I hope I can provide documentation to a similar standard as I have written for Simple Paging Grid as I think that’s played a big part in it’s modest success.
I’m publishing early basically so some friends can make use of it and so that I can pull it out of my applications to manage separately, but if you have any feedback let me know. Bug fix submissions greatly welcomed!
And finally for those who are wandering – Accidental Fish is the moniker (and UK Limited Company) under which I publish applications on the iOS App Store and under which I place the copyright for most of my open source work. Somehow using it in namespaces seems less egotistical than my own name or initials, though as I’m the sole employee it is me and I am it.
