PhatBoyG (Chris Patterson) - All Comments

re: Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010

jdn — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:13:58 GMT

This is cool.

Minor syntax error at the end:

"To install fresh, we can just delete the existing w7-2010.vhd and create it again using:

diskpart

create vdisk file="D:\vhds\v7-2010.vhd" parent="D:\vhds\w7base.vhd""

'v7' instead of 'w7'

Leveraging Windows 7 Boot to VHD to Test Visual Studio 2010

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re: Traveling to Technical Events

Marc — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:02:56 GMT

Ssssssh, do not tell everyone about the cords. This will lower my market value ;-)

re: Traveling to Technical Events

Kevin Griffin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:57:46 GMT

Fantastic advice. Especially about having a power strip and extra cords. Never assume you're going to have access to power or wireless. I've been to many events where you could only get internet through a wall, and only if you had your own cord.

The power strip is great if you're trying to chat and network with folks. They have to be around you, since you're sharing power.

re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Kevin Miller — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:22:51 GMT

Chris. I am really enjoying this series and excited that there is more to come. Thank you.

re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:22 GMT

That would be fantastic! thanks Chris.

re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Chris Patterson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:53:22 GMT

@Jeremy,

In this case, yes, I'm testing the saga end-to-end so I'm creating "proxy" handlers that produce the appropriate response from the stimulus (in this case, the Publish in the saga) so that the saga can achieve completion in this "happy path" test.

I'll schedule a post on testing sagas as part of this series, thanks for bringing it up.

re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Jeremy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:39:09 GMT

sorry i wasn't all that clear... wouldn't think of calling the web service direct in a test. i was curious if you might be using an automocker or generic test helper class so as to not have to write a proxy for each Publish call in the saga. In the saga_spec the OrderDetailsWebServiceProxy is faked in the GatewayService project. is that faked proxy class normally what you would create in the test project to stub?

btw thanks for this series of posts they've been helpful. i'm going back to an app using MT and trying to get some tests around the saga's after inspiration from this post.

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re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Chris Patterson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:10:24 GMT

@Jeremy:

Do we create proxies for the actual call to the web service? Yes. We never talk to the external web service directly, it's always done through a proxy/gateway class.

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re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Jeremy — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:30:44 GMT

Thanks Chris.... been struggling with writing unit tests for saga's. Really wish the samples in masstransit had tests around them... One question do you create proxies like this in when testing production code or is there a better way?

re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Steve — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:51:39 GMT

Thanks Chris :)

re: Building a Service Gateway Using MassTransit, Part 3

Chris Patterson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:59:20 GMT

@Jake

Proxy_Specs is fixed. Thanks.

@Steve

It's coming, it's coming! :)