Month: <span>July 2010</span>

Test-Driven Development – From Painful to (Near) Zero Friction

Posted on July 28, 2010 by in .net, Testing

I don’t like development friction.  I especially don’t like testing friction.   Over the last several years, my approach to test-driven development and the style of test cases I create has changed drastically in an effort to eliminate testing frication.  To illustrate, I’ve created my first ever screencasts.  In these screencasts, I use TDD to implement…

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Starting smtp4dev Automatically

Posted on July 25, 2010 by in MVC

smtp4dev is a great little tool for testing E-mail sending functionality in your application.  Instead of setting up your own SMTP server and fighting your ISPs restrictions, smtp4dev sits in your system tray and acts like a mock SMTP server, catching instead of relying them on to their destination.  You can then view the messages…

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Using MVCContrib glue to bring Visual Basic WebForms and C# MVC together

Posted on July 8, 2010 by in asp.net, MVC

While I’m digging my new job, I’ve found myself in the less-than-desirable situation of having to work with WebForms again.  After working almost exclusively with ASP.NET MVC for the better part of three years, the inadequacies of WebForms seem even more prominent.  While running MVC and WebForms in the same applications is easy enough, we’re facing…

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