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posted by BlackWasp(4212) 7 months, 21 days ago 0

Thanks :)

The three pillars of unit tests: A helpful guide for beginners

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 7 months, 15 days ago 0

Useful points on TDD.

One point 1 I'd make a slight amendment. If you can remove a line without breaking a test, I wouldn't advocate not using the tests. Instead I'd recommend adding tests to give you the reliability you need. Otherwise, good information.

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Mocking Property Expectations with Moq

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 7 months, 7 days ago 0

You're welcome :)

There are another few mentions of Moq in my Unit Testing tutorial and I have some more planned too.

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Locking the Workstation Programmatically

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 6 months, 10 days ago 0

I think it has some uses. Perhaps not just locking workstations for fun though. ;)

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Reading and Writing INI Files (C#)

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 5 months, 14 days ago 0

Hehe. I know! I wrote it after the problem cropped up in a project where some VB6 was still in use.

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Return Multiple Values from Methods with Tuples -- Visual Studio Magaz

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 5 months, 6 days ago 0

With the examples shown there are better alternatives than returning tuples. That said, tuples have their place, particularly if the class shown will be used from F#. There's the added advantage (or disadvantage depending upon your viewpoint) that tuples are immutable.

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Attaching Continuation Tasks to the UI Thread

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 4 months, 22 days ago 0

I think so too. It's only available in .NET 4.0 though so earlier versions still need to use BackgroundWorkers or spawn new threads.

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Basic Volume Control

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 4 months, 8 days ago 0

I do have an icon in the bar at the top for posting to dotnetkicks. I think I'll add it to the bottom of the last page of an article too.

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Documenting Exceptions

posted by BlackWasp(4212) 3 months, 10 days ago 0

I know that feeling :)