Paulo Morgado : MVP

Hurrah! MVP for the seventh consecutive year!

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:31:46 GMT

After all these years, it's still an honor, a privilege ... and a few stressful days.

E-Reference Library Subscription Discount Offer for The Community

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:36:52 GMT

Microsoft Press has created an exclusive discount URL for the E-Reference Library that MVPs can pass along to the broader community without any limitations or restrictions.

To create a trial subscription, community referrals should use the Trial URL (http://microsofteref2.books24x7.com/promo.asp?ref=mvptry).

Any community referrals who subscribe to E-Reference Libraries through the Subscription URL (http://microsofteref2.books24x7.com/promo.asp?ref=mvpbuy) will receive a 40% discount on a one-year subscription.

This discount offer ends on September 30, 2008.

I’m A Microsoft MVP For The 6th Time And I FEEL GREAT

Paulo Morgado — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:26:04 GMT

Video: I Feel Great! - MVP

Pedro Félix Is Blogging

Paulo Morgado — Fri, 30 May 2008 00:47:27 GMT

Pedro Félix is blogging about WCF.

Techdays Portugal 2008 - For A World 2.0

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:45:52 GMT

Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12^nd to 14^th, right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11^th.

This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of national and international speakers and contests.

I'll be there. Come visit us.

TypeMock: How to Make Reflective Mocks More Natural

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:56:00 GMT

Like I said before, this as been on the back of my mind for a while.

A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ, and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural.

Well, it's as easy as this:

public static class MockExtender
{
    public static IParameters ExpectAndReturn<T1, T2, TResult>(this IMockControl mock, Expression<Func<T1, T2, TResult>> expression, object ret, params Type[] genericTypes)
    {
        return mock.ExpectAndReturn((expression.Body as MethodCallExpression).Method.Name, ret, genericTypes);
    }
}

(For now, I'll leave to someone else the implementation of the rest of the overloads)

With this implementation it's possible to handle static classes (a limitation of Fredrik's implementation).

As for private methods, just let Visual Studio (2008, in this sample) and TypeMock do their magic.

So, to test this class:

public static class Class1
{
    public static string PublicMethod(string param1, int param2)
    {
        return PrivateMethod(param2, param1);
    }

    private static string PrivateMethod(int param2, string param1)
    {
        throw new NotImplementedException();
    }
}

We just write this test:

[TestMethod()]
public void PublicMethodTest()
{
    string param1 = "param";
    int param2 = 5;
    string expected = "return";
    string actual;

    Mock targetMock = MockManager.Mock(typeof(Class1));

    targetMock.ExpectAndReturn((int i, string s) => ClassLibrary1.Class1_Accessor.PrivateMethod(i, s), expected).Args(param2, param1);

    actual = Class1.PublicMethod(param1, param2);

    Assert.AreEqual(expected, actual);
}

How about this for clean and simple?

WCSF geekSpeak: Download Available At MSEVENTS

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:25:27 GMT

For those who missed my webcast (and wanted to watch it) it's available to download at the MSEVENTS site.

WCSF geekSpeak: Online Resources

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:46:42 GMT

Here is the list of topics covered in the WCSF geekSpeak webcast:

And here is a list of online resources:

WCSF geekSpeak: Real-Time Search Bundle Demo Code

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:51:00 GMT

This demo e based on the demo included in the Real-Time Search Bundle download.

The demo includes an entry form with two implementations:

Using an Update Panel.
Using the WCSF's Real-Time Search Monitor.

WCSF geekSpeak: Contextual Auto Complete Bundle Demo Code

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:26:00 GMT

This demo e based on the demo included in the Contextual Auto Complete Bundle download.

The demo includes an entry form with three implementations:

Using the traditional auto post back model
Using an update panel
Using the Contextual Auto Complete Extender.

WCSF geekSpeak: Registration Open

Paulo Morgado — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:27:00 GMT

There was a problem with the registration for this webcast, but it's now solved.

Jan 23 - Paulo Morgado - The Web client software factory in action

Free e-books on the Visual Studio 2008 Learning Portal

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:23:58 GMT

Microsoft is offering free e-books (or, at least some chapters) in the Visual Studio 2008 Learning Portal.

JSMock on CodePlex

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:57:09 GMT

Bruno has set up a project at CodePlex for his testing framework for JavaScript.

Stop Designing for Testability (by Eli Lopian)

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:25:54 GMT

Eli Lopian from TypeMock™, has an article on CodeProject about the disadvantages of design for testability and how to use TypeMock™ to remove these disadvantages while keep the advantages of unit testing.

I have to say that I agree with Eli: design for testability is BAD. It exposes more that it needs just for the purpose of testing and might increase the number of classes and interfaces that need to be implemented, tested and maintained. It also increases the attack surface of the system being built.

I am a firm believer in code for testability. Using tools like Visual Studio and TypeMock™ you can easily test private members of a class. You can do almost the same you would do in design for testability without exposing what doesn't need to be exposed and go even further by factoring your code in smaller methods easier to test.

Unit Test Patterns for .NET (from TypeMock™)

Paulo Morgado — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:21:39 GMT

There is a good set of articles about Unit Test Patterns in the TypeMock™ site:

Unit-Test Patterns for .NET - Part I
This article looks at patterns in unit testing and describes the main patterns found in tested .NET code. It also describes the problems with each pattern.
Unit Test Patterns for .NET - Part II - TypeMocks
Programmers who have incorporated unit testing into their development process already know its advantages: cleaner code, courage to refactor, and higher speed. But even the most die-hard unit testers can falter when faced with testing a class that relies on system state for its behavior. This article looks at the TypeMock pattern that can help you solve these problems.
Unit-Test Patterns for .NET - Part III - Natural TypeMocks™
In this series, unit-test patterns and the advantages that it brings have been discussed. Although there is great power in using TypeMocks, there are times when the reflective API can falter when refactoring code. This article will look at how to test the interaction between classes using Natural Type Mocks to solve these problems.

WCSF geekSpeak: What do you want to see?

Paulo Morgado — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 00:17:00 GMT

Just let me know to see if I can accommodate it on my geekSpeak.

I'm on geekSpeak

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:34:47 GMT

Or I'll be, on January 23rd.

Here is the complete list of web casts for December 2007 and January 2008:

PDC08 has been announced

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:49:29 GMT

Microsoft has announced the date for PDC08. Will this be a keeper?

TypeTypeConverter vs. TypeNameConverter

Paulo Morgado — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:37:45 GMT

Some time ago I complained about the fact that a TypeConverter for Types was missing from the .NET Framework.

At the time I had search for one in the framework but only found internal or private implementations.

As it turns out, the version 2.0 of the .NET Framework introduced a TypeNameConverter that does practically the same thing as my TypeTypeConverter, beside the poor naming.

I say poor naming because the documentation for TypeConverter states that "The most common type of converter is one that converts to and from a text representation.". This converter does not convert from text to a Type Name but to an instance of Type. Nevertheless, it's in the framework and you should use this one instead of mine.

.NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 and .NET Framework Service Pack 1 available as a standalone download

Paulo Morgado — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 05:43:43 GMT

For those who can't (or don't want to) deploy .NET Framework 3.5, the service packs included for the 2.0 and 3.0 versions of the framework are available as standalone downloads.