Writing tests as we all know is a good thing as it gives us confidence in what we are working on. Unfortunately we don't give our tests as much care when righting them so this post gives a few tricks and tips for writing maintainable tests

If you are a TDD purist, you should know that accessing file system in Unit Test is violating the rule. But in our application, our infrastructural code often requires to access the configuration values form web.config/app.config. In this post, I will show you how can create a simple wrapper class w...

Implementing UnitOfWork Pattern In Linq To SQL Application In my previous post, I have shown how to create Linq to Sql Repository which will have the maximum code coverage, In this post, I will show a simple UnitOfWork class which will flash the changes back to your database. I will be again use...

In this post, I will show you how you can architect your Linq To Sql repository which will have 100% code coverage. I will use our favorite Northwind database along with my ongoing UnityCommonServiceLocatorMVC project. First, lets add a Linq To Sql diagram in our project and drag n drop the Category...

I wanted to challenge the dogmatic urban legend passed down from .NET developer to .NET developer since the classic ASP days. That dogma simply states you should always access your database via stored procedure for "performance reasons". Inline SQL is BAAAAAAD. So I fired up Visual Stud...

How to run PartCover with Nant, generate an xml report and integrate the report into CC.Net to get your coverage statistics in your Integration server.

Why DotNetKicks.com it is the best .NET news source on the web.

An excellent post on how to think about programming as a profession.

Review and sample code for the MVC framework. See how your projects and code will look like.

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I have just switched DotNetKicks.com to use the new open source codebase - svn revision 101. The site is now using SubSonic as the DAL. Please kick the tires if you can. Report any bugs to google code site: http://code.google.com/p/dotnetkicks/issues/list

Here's a quick and easy way to incorporate performance testing into your everyday unit tests.

A robust Rss Publisher for CruiseControl.NET has been built and available for download on CodePlex.

There is a tool in Visual Studio called the Object Test Bench. In this article I present an overview of its features and compare it to the Immediate Window which in my opinion almost always does the job better and faster.