I recently discovered a rather annoying limitation in Moq: you cannot setup expectations on the ToString method. For a good discussion of the issue, check out Sean’s post. His solution was to add ToString explicitly to the interface you are mocking, but I don’t want to dirty up my interfaces unnecessarily. Fortunately, Moq does allow…
try-catch-FAIL
Month: <span>February 2010</span>
Extending Moq: returning multiple results via lambdas
I have on several occasions wished that I could setup expectations in Moq for subsequent calls to a method. For example, I might want Moq to return one value the first time a method is called, but a different value the second and third times. Phil Haack has a nice way to achieve this, but…
Using StructureMap to provide strongly-typed access to AppSettings
I’ve been using StructureMap for the last couple of months. I love it, and my only regret is that I didn’t start using it sooner. I always felt like I wrote clean, testable code before, but I can see a noticeable improvement since jumping on the IoC container bandwagon. If you aren’t using an IoC…
MLSharp 1.0 Alpha Released
I’ve finally written a little bit of documentation on MLSharp, fixed a few bugs/glitches, and packaged it all up into the first official release. I consider the software Alpha quality (meaning it has known bugs, limitations, may set fire to your house, etc), but I have used it in several projects successfully. Please give it…
A Newbie’s Experiences with NDepend
Disclaimer: Yes, I was given a pro license to NDepend. However, what follows are my honest impressions of version 2.12.1 of the tool on a real .NET 3.5 project. I have not evaluated the recent beta, so some of the issues noted below may be fixed in a more recent build. To Patrick Smacchia: I…
The trials and tribulations of using MSDeploy with PowerShell
I can sum my experience with trying to use MSDeploy and Powershell together with a single word: hell. MSDeploy.exe does not play nicely with PowerShell, but thanks to some help from James and a lot of trial-and-error, I’ve got it sort-of working now. Here’s a tail of my journey. Hopefully you, brave reader, will learn…