Kevin wrote an interesting post in which he expressed his concern for the anemic state of the .Net developer community when compared to that of other communities. I started jotting down a response and saw I was getting carried away so I thought I'd post my thoughts here instead. I heard a comment a couple
Most of my career has been in .Net development and I’m pretty comfortable applying design patterns in C#, but as I’m learning Ruby, I was finding it difficult to figure out how to implement them without creating awkward, hard-to-read code. Recently a local Ruby guru, Nate Klaiber, recommended that I pick up the book Design
In my last post, we discussed how to run a Sql script from C# to insert lookup data when we regenerate our database for integration tests. But we want to make sure that the connection string that’s being used by NHibernate is the same connection string being used by our InsertTestData() method. To do that,
Earlier this week I needed a way to insert test data into my database that was being regenerated at the start of each test fixture. For most scripts, you can use a simple command with CommandText to get the job done. But this doesn’t work with certain Sql statements, such as GO. Luckily, I stumbled
Occasionally my solutions include multiple test projects. And I'd like NAnt to automatically save pick up the new test projects as their added without having to modify the build script. Turns out that there are a couple of ways to do this. Method 1 <target name="run.tests" description="Runs tests for all test projects in solution." depends="compile">
Today I decided to relearn some of the BDD concepts I picked up at the end of last year and ran into a scenario where I needed to test that a specific type of exception was being thrown by a method. The simple way to do this is to decorate your test method with an
Within .Net 3.5, we were given Linq which makes working with generic lists a piece of cake. But if you're like me, you probably still find yourself supporting a lot of code bases that have been written in the 2.0 framework for clients that aren’t ready to move to 3.5. However, .Net 2.0 did bring
Have you noticed that Resharper will occasionally give you a warning with the message “Access to modified closure” when referencing a variable within an anonymous method or lambda expression? Take the following code snippet for example: class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { List<Action> actions = new List<Action>(); for (int i = 1; i
Scott Guthrie recently announced a *new* charting library for .Net 3.5 called Microsoft Charting Controls. These are currently available for both web and winforms. For those of you familiar with Dundas charting, you'll notice that this looks strikingly similar to what they've been selling at premium prices for the last few years. Turns out that
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend one of Jean-Paul Boodhoo's infamous .Net Bootcamps. And it, by far, exceeded it's reputation as one of the most intense (and rewarding) .Net courses available. We started each day at 9:00 AM and the earliest we got out on any night was 11:00. In fact on Thurs.