Tell, don’t ask is a way of thinking when you’re programming software, a mindset. It is something that should be in the back of your head every time you write a line of code, or a chunk of code that describes some functionality. It is not something you merely apply when trying to solve a [...]

I’ve spent this summer implementing a new mapping framework for the .Net plattform: Glue.
You’ll find examples and code here: http://glue.codeplex.com
Glue is a general purpose, bidirectional automatic mapping for the .Net platform, with strong verification and testing tools.
I’ve seen quite a lot of less than optimal handling of mapping issues in quite a few projects over [...]