The Cost of Net Negative Producing Programmers

blog.jayfields.com — Discussion of NNPPs and how to tackle them. read more...

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General Discussion of Windows Azure

aspnetpodcast.com — David and Wally talk about Windows Azure in general. read more...

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Verifying code and testing with Pex

blog.maartenballiauw.be — Earlier this week, Katrien posted an update on the list of Belgian TechDays 2009 speakers. This post featured a summary on all sessions, of which one was titled “Pex – Automated White Box Testing for .NET”. Here’s the abstract: “Pex is an automated white box testing tool for .NET. Pex systematically tries to cover every reachable branch in a program by monitoring execution traces, and using a constraint solver to produce new test cases with different behavior. Pex can be applied to any existing .NET assembly without any pre-existing test suite. Pex will try to find counterexamples for all assertion statements in the code. Pex can be guided by hand-written parameterized unit tests, which are API usage scenarios with assertions. The result of the analysis is a test suite which can be persisted as unit tests in source code. The generated unit tests integrate with Visual Studio Team Test as well as other test frameworks. By construction, Pex produces small unit test suites with high code and assertion coverage, and reported failures always come with a test case that reproduces the issue. At Microsoft, this technique has proven highly effective in testing even an extremely well-tested component.” After reading the second sentence in this abstract, I was thinking: “SWEET! Let’s try!”. So here goes… read more...

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Self Installing Windows Service

blogs.microsoft.co.il — Reusable class that can be added to a Windows Service project to enable Install, Uninstall, Start and Stop functionality. read more...

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Filtering List Items - The Yield Return Solution

dev102.com — Here we are talking about filtering list items again :). read more...

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Introducing a new large scale ASP.NET MVC project framework: Unifico

codeplex.com — Written in C# against MVC Beta and ASP.NET 3.5.1 the code currently recreates the account ‘component’ of the MVC example template with a simple SQL Repository. The ASP.NET Membership Provider is completely replaced with a component written against the Unifico Framework’s pattern. In this example several things are achieved: * A Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) ready to be remoted through Windows Communication Foundation while using StructureMap to provide dependency injection from WCF. * A repository based data source also protected with dependency injection that is exposed through in a pipes and filters manor. LINQ to SQL is used within a particular repository implementation, but is in no way exposed to the service. * A Model View Controller (MVC) pattern is also used. The only objects returned from a service are models, and all controller activity is within the service itself. Virtual Paths are used to store the views within the component’s assembly. * Utility methods have been developed to provide paging across the service interfaces while leaving the ‘control’ in the hands of the service. The paging methods support multiple filters and multiple sorts within any paging method for a general service. * The framework supports unit testing, however unit tests need to be added specifically for the account service. A project has been setup to show where this is done. * ‘Form’ Models are used for requests to a service to allow all validation for a request to occur within the service. The responsibility of form validation is retained within a service in this manor, and prevents outside code from creating models. read more...

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Thinking only of the Junior Developer

published 2 days, 4 hours ago, submitted by cwbrandsma 4 days, 6 hours ago

elegantcode.com — How do you treat Junior developers, what code do you give them, and do you let their presence change your architecture? read more...

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Most Interesting .NET StackOverFlow Questions

published 2 days, 9 hours ago, submitted by ethilik 4 days, 10 hours ago

blog.sb2.fr — Today a short list of My Personal Most Interesting .NET Questions to me asked on StackOverFlow I founded. read more...

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