Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know

weblogs.asp.net — In this blog entry, Stephen Walther lists the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. The list is kept brief. The list focuses on only those tips and tricks that can be used on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardless of whether you are building an ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC application. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #25 – Unit Test Your Views without a Web Server

weblogs.asp.net — In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can unit test ASP.NET MVC views without running a Web server. He shows you how to unit test views by creating a custom MVC View Engine and a fake Controller Context. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #20 – How to Unit Test Data Access

weblogs.asp.net — In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can write unit tests for MVC controller actions that access a database. He shows you how to create a base unit test class that you can use to unit test your LINQ to SQL controller action code. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #18 – Parameterize the HTTP Context

weblogs.asp.net — Context is the enemy of testability. In this tip, Stephen Walther demonstrates how you can eliminate, once and for all, the HTTP Context from an ASP.NET MVC application by creating a custom Action Invoker and Controller Factory. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #14 – Create a Template Helper Method

weblogs.asp.net — In this tip, Stephen Walther shows you how to create and use templates in the MVC framework that you can use to display database data. He shows you how to create a new MVC Helper method named the RenderTemplate() method. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #12 - Faking the Controller Context

weblogs.asp.net — In this tip, Stephen Walther shows you how to test ASP.NET intrinsics when building unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC application. He shows you how to create a standard set of fake objects that enables you to fake the current user, the current user roles, the request parameters, session state, and cookies. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #11 - Use Standard Controller Action Names

weblogs.asp.net — ASP.NET MVC Tip #11 – Use Standard Controller Action Names by swalther In this tip, I recommend that you use standard names for your controller actions in order to make your code more transparent to other developers. I propose action names that will work with the default route table and that will work with both C# and VB.NET. read more...

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ASP.NET MVC Tip #5 - Create Shared Views

weblogs.asp.net — In this tip, Stephen Walther explains how to create shared views for controller actions. A shared view can be used with multiple controllers. In particular, I explain how to create shared views for displaying and editing database data. read more...

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