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October 2009 - Jimmy Bogard

  • MVC Best Practices

    Simone has a great post (as usual) on 12 ASP.NET MVC Best Practices : Controller: 1 - Delete the AccountController 2 - Isolate controllers from the outside world 3 - Use an IoC Container 4 - So NO to “magic strings” 5 - Build your own personal conventions...
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  • MVC Web Testing Strategies – verifying content

    Some of the questions during the C4MVC presentation concerned how I liked to locate data displayed in the rendered HTML for validation purposes.  You have quite a few options for doing so, such as: Traverse HTML directly through the DOM Using existing...
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  • C4MVC UI Testing screencast posted

    Yesterday the C4MVC guys hosted a screencast with me on UI testing ASP.NET MVC.  It was a lot of fun, but I actually forgot I was being videotaped (webcam’d?), so all those times I turned off my mic to catch a drink of water or cough uncontrollably...
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  • C4MVC meeting on UI testing

    Today I’m showing giving a talk on UI testing MVC applications for the Community for MVC.Net folks .  Those that went to my presentations in Arkansas and Houston have seen this talk already, so they’re off the hook on this one.  I’ll be covering...
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  • How not to implement a failing test

    One of the first things I change in ReSharper, along with one of my biggest pet peeves is a failing test that fails because of something like this: public class CombinedStreetAddressResolver : NullSafeValueResolver < Address , string > { protected...
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  • More missing LINQ operators

    Continuing an old post on missing LINQ operators , the wonders of extension methods allow us as developers to fill potential holes in LINQ operators.  Whether it’s a Zip method (now included in .NET 4.0), or better methods for IComparer-based operators...
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  • Thanks Arkansas!

    This week I made the drive from Austin to Fort Smith and Springdale, Arkansas to speak at the Fort Smith DNUG and the Northwest Arkansas DNUG on UI testing ASP.NET MVC.  Although I showed tools such as WatiN and Gallio, I focused more on design for...
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  • An AutoMapper success story

    I got a cool message on the AutoMapper mailing list from Howard Van Rooijen on how they used AutoMapper in a site they recently launched to production: Hello AutoMapper Community, I just wanted to let you know that an e-commerce site which uses AutoMapper...
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