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Mark Seemann's discontinued .NET blog.
Fixture Setup With Installers
It's no secret that I prefer unit tests over integration tests. Whenever it's possible to replace an...
Author: ploeh Date: 11/28/2007
TechEd Sessions Sample Code
Now that both of my TechEd sessions are over, I've had some request for the sample code that I...
Author: ploeh Date: 11/08/2007
What Do You Want To Discuss About TDD?
As previously announced, I'll be giving two talks at TechEd Developers in Barcelona next week. The...
Author: ploeh Date: 11/02/2007
Running MSTest In An MTA
Writing deterministic, multi-threaded unit tests may not be your idea of a fun Saturday night, but...
Author: ploeh Date: 10/20/2007
Speaking at TechEd Developers 2007
Again this year, I'll be presenting at TechEd Developers in Barcelona next month. This year, I'll be...
Author: ploeh Date: 10/10/2007
Race Troubleshooting Using The Console Output In VSTS
It must be my week of discovering the obvious. The other day I was troubleshooting a race condition...
Author: ploeh Date: 10/06/2007
Troubleshooting WCF In Production Environments
WCF is such a nice framework, and its diagnostics capabilities are really comprehensive. Really, I...
Author: ploeh Date: 10/02/2007
CovariantCollection
One of the known limitations of .NET generics is the limited support for covariance. This is...
Author: ploeh Date: 09/29/2007
Installing Event Sources For The Logging Application Block
One of the nice things about the Enterprise Library Logging Application Block (LAB) is that it's so...
Author: ploeh Date: 09/20/2007
Performance Counter Testing
If at all applicable, a well-written application should include one or more performance counters,...
Author: ploeh Date: 09/15/2007
Agile Proves Effective Once More
Christian, one of my old (and present) collegues, has just posted about his team's latest...
Author: ploeh Date: 08/31/2007
SQL Server On Vista Development Machines
As an enterprise developer, I've always had SQL Server on my laptop (which is my main development...
Author: ploeh Date: 08/26/2007
User Context
Besides logging, one of the most common types of ambient context is the user. Who is the user? Was...
Author: ploeh Date: 08/20/2007
MSDN Magazine Article on Test Doubles
My latest MSDN Magazine article - this time on test doubles - is now available on the MSDN Magazine...
Author: ploeh Date: 08/09/2007
Call Contexts vs. ASP.NET
In my former post on Ambient Contexts, I described how you can use CallContext or Thread Local...
Author: ploeh Date: 07/28/2007
Ambient Context
These days, I'm becoming increasingly enamored with the idea of implementing cross-cutting concerns...
Author: ploeh Date: 07/23/2007
Imperative Configuration
How can I unit test my application with different configuration settings? A couple of months back, a...
Author: ploeh Date: 07/11/2007
cleantestresults XML Snippet
About a year ago, I wrote about an automated way to clean up the TestResults folder created by VSTS....
Author: ploeh Date: 06/25/2007
Using Decorators For Inter-Layer Communication
While I hope that my previous post made it clear that Data Transfer Objects are not my first choice...
Author: ploeh Date: 06/18/2007
What's An Entity, Anyway?
These days, I seem to be encountering a lot of entities. Not in the sense of non-corporeal beings as...
Author: ploeh Date: 06/18/2007
Speaking In June
At the upcoming Softwareudvikling på tværs conference, I'll be presenting a session on TOOD on the...
Author: ploeh Date: 06/08/2007
State Your Dependency Intent
There are several different ways to implement Dependency Injection (DI), and Martin Fowler describes...
Author: ploeh Date: 06/02/2007
Code As Dependency Configuration
In his article on Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection, Martin Fowler has a quite...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/30/2007
Reasons For Isolation
Object-oriented applications above some level of complexity are almost always modelled as a layered...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/30/2007
Authorizing Services
If you look at the default authorization model for WCF, you will notice that it expects you to...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/20/2007
Testing Against The Passage of Time
This is the fourth in a small series of posts about testing against non-determinism. In this...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/14/2007
Testing Against The Current Time
This is the third in a small series of posts about testing against non-determinism. In this...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/12/2007
Testing Against Guids
This is the second in a small series of posts about testing against non-determinism. In this...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/12/2007
Testing Against Randomness
This is the first in a small series of posts about testing against non-determinism. In this...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/11/2007
Testing Against Non-Determinism
Although computers tend to be rather deterministic in nature, you will sometimes have to deal with...
Author: ploeh Date: 05/11/2007
Hello World
private static void Main(string[] args){ Person father = new Person(); Person mother = new Person();...
Author: ploeh Date: 04/21/2007
Unit Testing Activity CodeDOM Serializers
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) defines workflows as object graphs. To save or compile workflow...
Author: ploeh Date: 04/05/2007
BPL
Although my daughter is now 4½ years old, she still can't write code. Some may say that it's because...
Author: ploeh Date: 04/01/2007
April's Fool!
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Author: ploeh Date: 04/01/2007
Validating Code Serialized by CodeDomDesignerLoaders
A while back I wrote about unit testing component serializers, but I left the task of validating the...
Author: ploeh Date: 04/01/2007
Provider Injection
In his article Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern, Martin Fowler...
Author: ploeh Date: 03/25/2007
Service Locator 2 Released
After far too much delay, today I have finally released Service Locator 2 to the web. Since...
Author: ploeh Date: 03/15/2007
TOOD? TOOP?
Roy Osherove has noted a discrepancy between pure object-oriented design and testable design...
Author: ploeh Date: 02/28/2007
How Will LINQ Impact Database Development Best Practices?
Ever since I first heard about the LINQ project, I've been wondering how this would fit in with our...
Author: ploeh Date: 02/10/2007
A Generic IAsyncResult Implementation
Lately, I've found myself writing implementations of IAsyncResult more than once, and as it turns...
Author: ploeh Date: 02/09/2007
Vote For Generic Set Class
From time to time, I find myself in a situation where I need a class that mimics the behavior of a...
Author: ploeh Date: 02/09/2007
ClassCleanup May Run Later Than You Think
In addition to the well-known TestInitializeAttribute, the Visual Studio Team System unit testing...
Author: ploeh Date: 01/06/2007
Mapping SAML Tokens to IPrincipals
In my post about integration testing of WCF services, I briefly touched on the topic of...
Author: ploeh Date: 01/04/2007
Integration Testing With Certificates
In my post about integration testing of WCF services, I hinted that one compelling reason to perform...
Author: ploeh Date: 12/20/2006
Integration Testing WCF Services
In my previous post about unit testing WCF services, I hinted at the need to perform integration...
Author: ploeh Date: 12/04/2006
Unit Testing WCF Services
A few years ago, when ASP.NET web services were the only (or at least most common) implementation of...
Author: ploeh Date: 12/03/2006
Vertical Guidelines in Visual Studio
From time to time, I've found myself wishing that Visual Studio had vertical guidelines in the code...
Author: ploeh Date: 12/01/2006
TechEd Aftermath
With TechEd: Developers long over, I thought I'd post a few links to the residue I left in my wake...
Author: ploeh Date: 11/28/2006
Data Access Component Testing
In a typical n-layer enterprise application, there's almost always a data access layer with one or...
Author: ploeh Date: 11/17/2006
Integration Testing Principles
As I've written before, integration tests are different from unit tests, but that does not mean that...
Author: ploeh Date: 11/15/2006