Nature abhors a vacuum. It turns out she also abhors static dependencies (I have my sources). Static dependencies are the modern-day globals, often exposed through classes named "Helper". I've certainly been guilty of overusing static dependencies in the past, with classes like "LoggingHelper"...

Last night, my fellow LosTechies geek Jason , wanted me to check out something he was trying to do in a MonoRail controller test. For some background and the original source code he was working with, see his Castle forum post . So here was the partial test he was working with: [Test] public void Should_have_error_summary_message_when_required_name_is_not_filled...

But I (Jesus) say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you -- Matthew 5:44 Problem In my current project, I have an application service that is used to make various modifications to a shopping cart...

In a previous post , I showed some examples of how to create custom view components in MonoRail and touched on the ability to create composite view components. Since then I've refactored towards the use of interfaces which I think is a cleaner approach, so I thought I'd share. First, let's review the...