Month: <span>February 2010</span>

Easily override ToString using Moq

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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