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Arrange Act Assert and BDD specifications

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:46:11 GMT

With Rhino Mocks 3.5 just around the corner, I've started using it to create much more readable tests. One of the things that always bothered me with Expect.Call, constraints and the like was that it mixed in the Arrange with Assert. For those that haven't heard of AAA, it's a pattern for authoring unit tests: * Arrange - set up the unit under test * Act - exercise the unit under test, capturing any resulting state * Assert - verify the behavior through assertions As I moved towards BDD context/specification style tests, working with Rhino Mocks didn't fit the picture very well. But with the new AAA syntax of Rhino Mocks 3.5, I can very cleanly separate out the behavior I want to observe from the mechanics of setting up the test.

BlogSvc - New Blogging Service for .NET 3.5

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:24:15 GMT

A new project has been started on CodePlex to create a blogging service using .NET 3.5. A community preview was recently released.

Howto use jQuery with asp.net mvc preview 4's AjaxHelper

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:16:11 GMT

Working on jQuery4mvc preview 4, one of the first things I ofcourse wanted to do was to replace the ASP.NET Ajax library that's used by the AjaxHelper. Unfortunately the AjaxHelper itself is sealed, so atm we can't (easily) change how the AjaxHelper generates its links. So what I did is create a javascript library that uses the same methodnames as the MicrosoftMvcAjax version.

A Programming Job Interview Challenge #13 - Brackets

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:01:07 GMT

Your input is a string which is composed from bracket characters. The allowed characters are:'(', ')', '['. ']', '{', '}', '<' and '>'. Your mission is to determine whether the brackets structure is legal or not.

Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# Part 1

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:16:15 GMT

Part one of many in migrating your C# skills over to Ruby

Silverlight 2.0 - Concepts To Become A Silverlight Master (Part 2)

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:46:11 GMT

Part 2 of a series of Concepts to Become a Silverlight Master. Part 2 focuses on WCF and how it complements Silverlight.

Getting started with custom SharePoint Event Receivers

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:16:03 GMT

In this post I describe how to create a custom SharePoint Event Receiver using the Visual Studio Extensions for SharePoint Services.

New Modules for IIS7

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:31:03 GMT

Scott Hanselman describes three new preview releases the IIS7 team put out this week.

Open Source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Portal - new and improved

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:46:03 GMT

A new release of Dropthings, open source ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX portal. Features many performance and scalability techniques and a new design. Showcases: - 10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets. - Fast ASP.NET page rendering by deferred script loading. - Load large amount of Javascripts in batch and thus load AJAX sites a lot faster. - Fast Streaming AJAX proxy that solves double downloading problems and continuously streams content from external domain. - Making best use of cache for high performance website. - On-demand UI loading on AJAX websites.

Getting Started with TDD

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:31:02 GMT

Getting started with Test Driven Development can be challenging. In this blog post, Steve offers some advice on how to get started either for a brand new project or one that already in maintenance mode.