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Lighthouse - Silverlight Unit Test Runner Project released

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:37:57 GMT

Since the initial release of Silverlight i was really annoyed by the fact that Unit Testing had very slim support. Even later when Silverlight Unit Testing Framework was introduced by Microsoft things became little better but still it was far from good. You could create Unit Tests, but you had to start your Visual Studio in order to run them - eventually looking at the results of tests in your favorite Web Browser...

Naked MVVM - simplest way of making testable WCF related code

Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:19:28 GMT

Second real world tip regarding MVVM implementation is targeted toward pragamtic approach of how to test enable code making WCF service calls on the simplest possible way.

Naked MVVM - simplest MVVM architecture

Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:00:08 GMT

Article showing the concepts behind very simple MVVM implementation.

Combining Silverlight Navigation Framework & Prism to create MVVM Apps

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 10:30:52 GMT

This is introductory post for a series of posts where i will try to tackle the holy grail of MVVM applications - Navigation. To do this I will be using Prism from Microsoft's Patterns and Practices team (Silverlight version - latest drop) combined with Silverlight Navigation Framework and i will build small navigation framework on top of that...

Silverlight MergedDictionaries - styles & resources from Class Libs

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:00:51 GMT

If you were developing larger Silverlight/WPF applications and trying to keep things like styles, control templates and other resources organized it can become really hard. Prior to Silverlight 3 it was hell to be honest. But then nice people from Microsoft introduced lovely little feature called MergedDictionaries that allows you to combine the resources from different places in your application.

5 reasons why Silverlight sucks in LOB (compared to WPF)

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:45:52 GMT

This post discus what technology suits better LOB applications Silverlight or WPF and provides 5 reasons why WPF makes more sense.

Unit Testable WCF Web Services in MVVM and Silverlight 4

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:15:07 GMT

I figured that there has to be a better way to solve this everyday problem so while working on my personal MVVM framework (yes, everyone is building one these days) i was setting these goals regarding the Web Service calls from my MVVM applications: 1. simplify as much as possible asynchronous invocation of Web Service methods (avoid writing boring boilerplate code for each call) 2. get rid of the Add Service Reference approach completely if possible 3. make the Web Services unit testable (hide them behind some interface so we can mock them in our unit tests) 4. simplify exception handling 5. fault tolerance (if web service client is faulted by exception it should be automatically recreated) ...

Simple (fizzbuzz like) .NET interview question covering stack and heap

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:02:17 GMT

Simple C# interview question which doesn't have any dependencies on math etc. and which is helping understanding how the job candidate understands stack and heap.

Me, myself and design patterns - VusCode - Coding dreams since 1998!

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:07:31 GMT

This blog post summarize some of the experiences related to the value of design patterns and to the process of its exploration.

Design for testability - WCF proxies

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:46:12 GMT

This blog post presents a 'duck tape' way of how to have testable Silverlight code depending on WCF calls with a non-MVVM implementation

Just say no to Service Locator!

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:30:00 GMT

This is a blog post focusing on the differences between Service Locator and Dependency Injection based code particularly focusing on benefits DI has in unit testing.

IoC, SRP and DI best practices

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:00:00 GMT

A blog post summing some of real world IoC experiences in 5 "laws"

Rhino Mocks used in testing the Prism IEventAggregator based code

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:51:27 GMT

Blog post showing how to test (with RhinoMocks) two common cases occuring in code with Prism event aggregator.

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:01:20 GMT

Mix 09 Quick Video Link List in a format allowing easy search & download

Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for natural DateTime operations

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:16:02 GMT

FluentDateTime is a open source library of Ruby inspired C# Extension Methods for easier and more natural DateTime handling and operations in .NET that allows you to write code like this: DateTime.Now + 1.Week() + 3.Days + 14.Minutes(); 3.Days().Ago(); 5.Days().After(new DateTime(2000, 1, 1)); DateTime.Now.NextDay(); DateTime.Now.WeekAfter(); DateTime.Now.Midnight(); DateTime.Now.SetTime(11, 55, 0);

Repository<T> good or bad?

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:01:06 GMT

Greg took a bite on current ALT .Net hot topic: Generic repositories

Automatic/Convention-based mapping entities with Fluent NHibernate

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:31:12 GMT

James Gregory has a 4-part post on the "auto-mapping" features of Fluent NHibernate. Basically, Fluent NHibernate can automatically map most of your entities based on the conventions you specify and can apply other conventions such as table names, foreign-key constraint naming, etc. This is the first post of the 4, the others are linked as Trackbacks at the bottom. After reading these 4, you should have a better idea of how to get started using the conventional mapping features of Fluent NHibernate.

Fluent NHibernate - AutoPersistenceModel auto mapping

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:12:26 GMT

An blog post presenting Fluent NHibernate AutoPersitanceModel through simple code example

Alt.NET Podcast Episode 13: Ruby on Rails

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:46:02 GMT

Brian Eng and Jeff Cohen from the Softies on Rails blog, and James Avery discuss the Ruby on Rails web framework and what Alt.NET can learn from it.

Fluent NHibernate - Working with NHibernate without configuration file

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:46:10 GMT

"I believe that the most important reason why NHibernate is not more widely adopted by general DEV population is exactly the "Java XML configuration" PIA feeling you have while working with it. Great news for all of us from that group: NHibernate is possible to be used WITHOUT configuration files! "

NDepend: code metrics at your service

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:31:08 GMT

If you ever wrote code for a non-trivial project chances are that from time to time you stop an think: "I don't know, but I have the feeling that the code is not really clean/too complex/[insert adjective here that makes you feel bad about your code]". Chances are even that you did not had these thoughts - but your source code indeed was not really clean, too complex or what not. While the latter situation is certainly the worse of the two, both situation make clear that we need means to quantify the quality of our code. NDepend is an excellent tool that can be used to generate those metrics

Microsoft cracking down on community extensions

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:01:02 GMT

Microsoft released a tool called Microsoft Source Analyzer, or StyleCop. It analyzes source code for standards violations. It's a 1.0 release, so it doesn't do some things ... like have a published API for custom rules or MSBuild integration. So the community dug in and figured out how to do these things and now MS is firing off license-violation emails. Don't they get it? The community wants to use the product, but it's too limited ... these extensions help make it better.

Dependency Injection is Dead!

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:46:10 GMT

The author claims that AOP-assisted Dependency Resolution, where dependencies are resolved on-demand without plumbing code and use of factories, can supersede Dependency Injection... at least in some scenarios. A refreshing view on a topic that tends to become sanctified and therefore undiscussed in our community.

Alt.NET Podcast Launched!

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:01:04 GMT

The Alt.NET Podcast has a new podcast. The premier episode is a conversation with David Laribee, Jeremy D. Miller, and Chad Myers about continuously improving yourself, your code, and your team. Give it a listen!

.NET runs on Linux, Mac OSX and FreeBSD ?

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:31:04 GMT

Good news. GNU adds support for .net apps in OpenSource world.