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...
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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...
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...
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Some time ago I complained about the fact that a TypeConverter for Type s 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...
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. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64) Microsoft .NET...
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Today, S.Somasegar announced at TechEd Developers EMEA , amongst other things, that they the product team at Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. They are on track to shipping these products before the end of November 2007. They will have the marketing launch...
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With IIS7 a new transfer method is available in the HttpServerUtility class . It's the TransferRequest method . What this method is intended to do is behave like the HttpResponse.Redirect method without the penalty of traveling to the client and back . I said "is intended to behave" because...
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Visual Studio's Unit Test generator generates a call to Assert.Inconclusive but, usually generates a call to another method of the Assert class. I find that very annoying because, some times, this makes the test fail instead of being reported as inconclusive. To comment out these extra calls to Assert...
I don't like to see constant strings being concatenated in source code. I know the compiler compiles it into a single string, but I think it sends out the wrong message. However, code generators (like Visual Studio's Unit Test generator) usually generate code with long strings concatenated across...
The P&P team has released another Web Client Software Factory Guidance Bundle . This time is the Validation Guidance Bundle . What are some scenarios to consider using the guidance in this bundle for? Improving UI responsiveness while reusing entity business validation logic across screens when performing...
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