Month: <span>April 2010</span>

Using Moq Dynamically

The TestControllerBuilder in MVCContrib’s TestHelper library has a hard dependency on Rhino Mocks.  I’m not a big fan of Rhino Mocks, I prefer to use Moq, and while it’s not a big deal to reference two separate mocking libraries, I’d rather just have one mocking library in my project.  I’m working on a patch to…

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Towards a better Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is The One Way to implement inter-process communication on the .NET platform.  Well, it’s not really the only way, but it’s certainly the most common way.  It’s a bit misused.  Unfortunately, WCF suffers from numerous problems.  It is extremely configuration heavy, it has known design issues, and it has a learning…

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