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Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:45:03 GMT

How does BDD compare with TDD, and how can you use BDD-style tools such as Cucumber and SpecFlow with ASP.NET MVC? Steve Sanderson considers the options, and provides an example of combining ASP.NET MVC 2, SpecFlow, and WatiN.

60+ .Net libraries every developer should know about

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:45:03 GMT

Every good developer knows never to re-invent the wheel, especially if there is software out there that has been tested by others, and has an established track record. As a developer using the .NET framework I've found some of these libraries invaluable, so I'm sharing them for some of the other dev's out there with a brief outline of how to use.

Bundler Part 2 - ASP.NET Integration

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:56:07 GMT

A look at the Bundler Framework and how it could be integrated in with ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC in order automate the process of minifying and combining JavaScript files.

BlockingCollection and IProducerConsumerCollection

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT

BlockingCollection is an incredibly easy way to have a few threads producing data and have numerous other threads picking up and processing that same data.

ASP.NET MVC security checklist

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:15:00 GMT

ASP.NET security checklist from a "think-like-a-hacker" perspective: steps one might want to go through once development is done.

Reporting in NoSQL

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:15:02 GMT

One question that comes up a lot in conversation, however, is "dude what about reporting - you can't do that with NoSQL very well now can ya?" and the answer is "yes, correct. You can't". As with all things programming: right tool for the right job.

ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Released

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:00:00 GMT

After receiving feedback from our last release candidate back in December, we decided it would be prudent to have one more release candidate that incorporated the feedback. You can read the release notes for everything that changed, there's not a whole lot.

.NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentQueue

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:45:00 GMT

The ConcurrentQueue is a simple (in use, not in construction!) and yet very powerful addition to your parallel programming toolset. If you need thread-safe FIFO operations, then you can throw your locks away and start using the ConcurrentQueue today.

Windows Azure Drive (aka X-Drive)

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:45:39 GMT

With today's release of the Windows Azure Tools and SDK version 1.1, also the Windows Azure Drive feature has been released. Announced at last year's PDC as X-Drive, which has nothing to do with a well-known German car manufacturer, this new feature enables a Windows Azure application to use existing NTFS APIs to access a durable drive. This allows the Windows Azure application to mount a page blob as a drive letter, such as X:, and enables easily migration of existing NTFS applications to the cloud. This blog post will describe the necessary steps to create and/or mount a virtual hard disk on a Windows Azure role instance.

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 Released

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:08:59 GMT

This evening, the BlogEngine.NET team released version 1.6....

.NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentStack

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:00:11 GMT

The ConcurrentStack is an excellent new tool in our parallel programming toolset which allows us to get the LIFO behavior we want, all without having to worry about locking.

Gherkin style specification testing in .NET

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:30:06 GMT

Behavior Driven Development is something that has interested me for quite awhile. I have constantly tried to write my tests as clear and concise as possible but once I saw Cucumber for Ruby that became the new standard for what I was trying to achieve in .NET. This is where SpecFlow comes in.

Validating a variable length list, ASP.NET MVC 2-style

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:15:07 GMT

Steve Anderson follow up article on how to validate a variable elgnth list in MVC 2.

Did you know about db4o - a brilliant object oriented database?

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:45:10 GMT

Forget about XML for small and middle sized apps. Use simple, straight forward OO persistence (db4o it's all objects!)

.NET 4.0 and System.Collections.Concurrent.ConcurrentBag

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:45:09 GMT

Another in-depth look at a new namespace in .NET 4.0 and how it can help with multithreading.

Translating routes (ASP.NET MVC and Webforms)

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:30:45 GMT

For one of the first blog posts of the new year, I thought about doing something cool. And being someone working with ASP.NET MVC, I thought about a cool thing related to that: let's do something with routes! Since System.Web.Routing is not limited to ASP.NET MVC, this post will also play nice with ASP.NET Webforms. But what's the cool thing? How about. translating route values?

CodePlex adds Mercurial support

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:15:06 GMT

Microsoft's open source project hosting site announces the addition of Mercurial to its supported source control systems.

How Fanboys See .NET ORMs

Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:15:00 GMT

A play off of the recent "How Fanboys See Operating Systems" post.

Overloading Dynamic

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:30:00 GMT

What happens when language features collide?

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:00:14 GMT

Welcome to the new DotNetKicks - Lots of improvements and even more on the way!

My ASP.NET MVC stack and why I chosen it

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:00:00 GMT

In this post Simone Chiaretta talks about the tools, components, and technologies he uses along with ASP.NET MVC to build web applications.

Reimagining www.asp.net, Part Two: The Support Experience

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:51:31 GMT

In part 2 of this four-part series, I continue to discuss how I would build the www.asp.net site from scratch. In this part I discuss overhauling the support and getting started sections.

Introducing DotNetMerchant

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:22:41 GMT

An open source payment processing and e-commerce library inspired by Active Merchant, but written from the ground up for the .NET Framework.

Reimagining www.asp.net

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Unfortunately www.asp.net hasn't evolved along with the community it was intended to support and the current state of affairs on the web. The author says, "I thought to myself, 'How would you build www.asp.net if you could start from scratch?' I decided to write a series of articles to answer that question."

Nuclex Framework on CodePlex

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:45:01 GMT

Nuclex.org has finally published their Nuclex Framework, a library of advanced building blocks for XNA game programming, as Open Source on CodePlex! Just some of the features: 3D Vector font rendering, multi-threaded particle system simulation, 3D SpriteBatch replacement, content compression using LZMA (7-Zip), graphical user interfaces with skin support, texture atlas creation, game state management, collision detection, C++' deque ported to C#, debug overlay renderer, automatic vertex declaration creator, game state management and more, all organized into neatly isolated building blocks you can pick from. The code has more than 1,400 unit tests with some assemblies achieving 100.0% test coverage and is thoroughly and completely documented.