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Client side scripting

Including custom client-side validations in your ASP.NET MVC app [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 2,929   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
Including custom client-side validations in your ASP.NET MVC app
Including custom client-side validations in your ASP.NET MVC app [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Aug 2010   Updated: 4 Aug 2010   Views: 5,555   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
Demonstrates how a self-written validation can be incorporated into a web page (using a bit of JavaScript) and how this can be mapped to a custom validation on the domain side

Site & Server Management

Integration testing an ASP.NET MVC application without web server or browser [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 4,385   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectWhile many of the single components of an ASP.NET MVC application are easy to test (-drive) in an isolated manner (e.g. controllers), this can be hard for some others (like e.g. model binders) - and sometimes it just doesn't make much sense to test a single piece of code in isolation (e.g
Integration testing an ASP.NET MVC application without web server or browser [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Aug 2010   Updated: 4 Aug 2010   Views: 7,305   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 6   Downloaded: 0
Integration testing an ASP.NET MVC application without web server or browser

Microsoft BizTalk Server

Mocking the Unmockable: Using Microsoft Moles with Gallio [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 4,216   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectUpdate 29/04/10:In contrary to what I initially stated in this post, Moles is not only available as part of the Pex framework, but also stand-alone on Visual Studio Gallery, and this is completely free (no MSDN subscription required). - Thanks to Peli for the correction... Usual openso
Mocking the Unmockable: Using Microsoft Moles with Gallio [Technical Blog]
Posted: 5 Aug 2010   Updated: 5 Aug 2010   Views: 7,235   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectUpdate 29/04/10:In contrary to what I initially stated in this post, Moles is not only available as part of the Pex framework, but also stand-alone on Visual Studio Gallery, and this is completely free (no MSDN subscription required). - Thanks to Peli for the correction... Usual openso

Other .NET Languages

It's the maintenance, stupid! (or: Something is rotten in developerland.) [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 3,315   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 5   Popularity: 3.49
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 3   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectMost people - even the overwhelming majority of programmers - would say that the main activity of a software developer is "writing source code". But this is a (though quite understandable) misconception - and if you take a look at the available figures on the issue or if you - as a softwa

.NET Framework

Integrating a LinFu IoC container with your ASP.NET MVC application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 2,945   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
Integrating a LinFu IoC container with your ASP.NET MVC application
Integrating a LinFu IoC container with your ASP.NET MVC application [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Aug 2010   Updated: 4 Aug 2010   Views: 4,812   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectFrom the many available IoC containers out there, LinFu is the one that I like most. This is because it is extremely simple to use, needs almost no configuration at all, and yet it is highly flexible and extensible, if you need to do some more complicated things (you can read two good int

Game Development

dotCover - a new kid on the (development) block [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 3,689   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 2   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectThese days, JetBrains (the manufacturer of ReSharper (R#)) released the beta version of a new code coverage tool – dotCover. Because I’m a big fan of the R# add-in, I was particularly curious about having a first look at the newest JetBrains child. Notably, I wanted to see how it would ta

Design and Architecture

Some myths of 'Textbook-TDD', and why they are wrong [Technical Blog]
Posted: 23 Jan 2013   Updated: 23 Jan 2013   Views: 3,655   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
During the last months, I was (for some reasons that are not related to programming) working for a dev shop where software development was done the 'traditional' way: You just write your application's production code, do it as good as you can, and hopefully it will be good enough and no problems wil

Testing and QA

Unit testing StyleCop rules [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 4,852   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
Unit testing StyleCop rules
Unit testing StyleCop rules [Technical Blog]
Posted: 4 Aug 2010   Updated: 4 Aug 2010   Views: 3,902   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
Unit testing StyleCop rules

Work Issues

Making Selenium 1.0.1 work with Firefox 3.6 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 5,385   Rating: 5.00/5    Votes: 1   Popularity: 0.00
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 1   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectThese days, I’m doing a bit of end-to-end acceptance web testing using the Selenium framework. Selenium has a nice and handy add-on for the Firefox browser – the Selenium IDE. It automatically records your actions and produces the required C# code for you, as you click around in the brows

Uncategorised Technical Blogs

A delicious toolbox [Technical Blog]
Posted: 31 Jul 2010   Updated: 31 Jul 2010   Views: 2,162   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 0   Downloaded: 0
CodeProjectOne of my major points of interest as a software developer is in the various tools that are available to make a developer’s life easier (or at least more interesting…). This is also a very important aspect for me in professional terms, because one part of my job lies in recommending suita

Third Party Products and Tools

Testing Entity Framework Applications, Pt. 1 [Technical Blog]
Posted: 18 Jan 2013   Updated: 18 Jan 2013   Views: 2,251   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
Licence: The Code Project Open License (CPOL)      Bookmarked: 10   Downloaded: 0
Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 1
Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 2: Typemock [Technical Blog]
Posted: 18 Jan 2013   Updated: 18 Jan 2013   Views: 1,666   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
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This is the second of a three part series that deals with the issue of faking test data in the context of a legacy app that was built with Microsoft's Entity Framework (EF) on top of an MS SQL Server database.
Testing Entity Framework applications, pt. 3: NDbUnit [Technical Blog]
Posted: 18 Jan 2013   Updated: 18 Jan 2013   Views: 1,796   Rating: 0.0 / 5    Votes: 0   Popularity: 0.0
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This is the third of a three part series that deals with the issue of faking test data in the context of a legacy app that was built with Microsoft's Entity Framework (EF) on top of an MS SQL Server database.
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Thomas Weller
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I'm a freelance software developer/architect located in Southern Germany with 10+ years of experience in C++, VB, and C# software projects. In the last few years I do all my coding exclusively in C#.
I am especially dedicated to Test-driven development, OO architecture, and software quality assurance issues and tools.


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