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Testing Expressions With Moq

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:58:22 GMT

In one of the tests I was writing using Moq, I needed to test that my repository was called with a particular expression. After struggling for a bit, I found a solution which I am sharing here in hopes that it will benefit you

How To Help People Understand Unit Testing, Mocks, and Isolation

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:33:28 GMT

It's all about vocabulary. The problem isn't usually that people can't understand what you're trying to get them to do, it's that you haven't put it in the right terms for them.

Announcing jQuery.Firebug

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:10:38 GMT

jQuery.Firebug is a jQuery plugin that simply exposes the Firebug Console API to the jQuery object.

Visual Studio 2010 == Visual Studio 2008 + ReSharper

Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:31:04 GMT

o you want the next gen of next-gen applications? Get the Visual Studio 2010 CTP! Which is - according to Microsoft itself - really just Visual Studio 2008 with ReSharper installed.

Oxite: Open eXchangable Informative Troubled Engine

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:29:21 GMT

This is a post about Oxite, but it is actually not about the code base. There has been a lot said about this, and I think that I can solidly put myself on the side that spouts WTF and now seeks access to memory altering drugs.

Be a Keyboard Guru, not a Mouse Guru

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:46:17 GMT

If you are a developer who wants to improve your skills, do not just think of code & syntax. Have you ever been in front of a team lead or architect lead and they look like magicians when they code and you feel embarrassed when you pick up your mouse? I know I have. Well, it's not really anything fancy. They are not musicians even though it's intimidating when you are not that fast with the keyboard;

Separate Assemblies != Loose Coupling

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:16:07 GMT

read and learn

Top 10 Things New Twitter Users Need To Know

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Those new to Twitter need some guidance. Jeff Blankenburg has come up with a list of things that someone new to Twitter needs to read before even creating their account.

Linq, Like, Mocks, and Expression Trees

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:18:59 GMT

Mel Grub faces using SQL "LIKE" in LINQ with a mocked DataContext

Make your LINQ to SQL DataContext fully testable!

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:38:32 GMT

How to use code generation to make the LINQ to SQL DataContext fully testable. Works great!

Negative Attitudes are a Cancer to Successful Teams

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:16:09 GMT

Team members with a negative attitude are thieves, robbing the team of its potential, its moral, and often its success.

I'm not a real world developer

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:59:47 GMT

An assessment of the responses to the Entity Framework "Vote of No Confidence".

Linq to SQL Wish List

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:46:02 GMT

What do we want to see in the next version of Linq to SQL ?

Visual Studio Usability Tip: Highlight Current Line

Sun, 18 May 2008 07:01:02 GMT

A small tweak you can make to your Visual Studio color scheme to help you navigate your code faster... maybe.

The Developer Exchange Program

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:31:03 GMT

How much better a developer would you be if you could regularly observe another Agile team in action... in person.

Linq joining to in-memory collections is bad

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:17:57 GMT

Mel Grubb found a situation where a simple LINQ join lead to an OutOfMemoryException.

DateTime.ToString() Patterns

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:16:01 GMT

Handy list of DateTime.ToString() patterns. Bookmark it ;-)

Brian H. Prince: Rules of Thumb for Consultants

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:11:16 GMT

Rules of Thumb for Consultants.

How to Use BizTalk 2006 with Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: ASP Alli

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:48:06 GMT

This article will walk you through the configurations necessary to access SharePoint information and to use BizTalk 2006 to allow internal and external entities access to your repository.

UAC for Application Developers: ASP Alliance

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:40:18 GMT

In this article James examines what UAC is, how it works, why it is important and how to write .NET 2.0/3.0 applications that are compliant with it.

Make Your Case Sensitive Searches 1000 Times Faster

Wed, 16 May 2007 07:46:01 GMT

Do you find that your case sensitive queries take forever? This little trick will speed up your query a thousand times

Getting the most out of .NET data binding

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:56:43 GMT

Data binding is a great way to work with data and UI controls, but there's a lot more to it than just setting the DataSource property of a grid. The .NET framework provides interfaces and components that will let the framework do most of the work for you - as long as you set it up right.