Advanced ASP.NET MVC
Learn how to extend the ASP.NET MVC framework with dependency injection, view engines, action filters, and more. We’ll see how to apply Test Driven Development and write unit tests with mock objects.
Tag: .net
Eliminating Static Dependencies
Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named “Helper”. I’ve certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like “LoggingHelper”, “SessionHelper”, “DBHelper” and so on. The problem …
Pex – Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET
Pex is a white-box test generation tool for .NET. Starting from a hand-written parameterized unit test, Pex analyzes the program-under-test to determine relevant test inputs fully automatically. To this end, Pex executes the program multiple times with different inputs while monitoring the taken execution paths. Pex uses a constraint solver …
Subsonic Simple Repo 5 Minute Demo
SubSonic is A Super High-fidelity Batman Utility Belt that works up your Data Access (using Linq in 3.0), throws in some much-needed utility functions, and generally speeds along your dev cycle. There are a few ways to work with SubSonic 3.0. One of them is to tell it to get …
XNA in Business Applications
So managed DirectX is obsolete. The way forward is now XNA, a gaming framework that targets the XBOX360, the Zune and the PC. What’s wrong with this picture? A gaming framework – hello?! This presentation will show how XNA can be used in business applications, and why. We will discuss …
Using Active Record to Write Less Code
What would you say if I told you that you can stop writing data access code in .Net? Aren’t you tired of writing the same thing over and over again, opening connection, querying the database, figuring out what to return, getting back untype data that you need to start putting …