Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12 nd to 14 th , right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11 th . This is the biggest and greatest tech event in Portugal and there will be lots of...
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Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well, it's as easy as this: public static class MockExtender...
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Here is the list of topics covered in the WCSF geekSpeak webcast: Contextual Auto Complete Bundle Demo code: WCSF geekSpeak: Contextual Auto Complete Bundle Demo Code Validation Bundle Demo code: WCSF geekSpeak: Validation Bundle Demo Code Real-Time Search Bundle Demo code: WCSF geekSpeak: Real-Time...
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This demo e based on the demo included in the Contextual Auto Complete Bundle download. The demo includes an entry form with three implementations: Using the traditional auto post back model Using an update panel Using the Contextual Auto Complete Extender .
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Eli Lopian from TypeMock™ , has an article on CodeProject about the disadvantages of design for testability and how to use TypeMock™ to remove these disadvantages while keep the advantages of unit testing. I have to say that I agree with Eli: design for testability is BAD. It exposes more that it needs...
There is a good set of articles about Unit Test Patterns in the TypeMock™ site: Unit-Test Patterns for .NET - Part I This article looks at patterns in unit testing and describes the main patterns found in tested .NET code. It also describes the problems with each pattern. Unit Test Patterns for .NET...
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Or I'll be, on January 23rd. Here is the complete list of web casts for December 2007 and January 2008: Dec 12 - Brian Loesgen - BizTalk Adapters Dec 19 - Shaun Walker - DotNetNuke Jan 2 - Michele Leroux Bustamante - CardSpace – Why should you care? Who’s using it today and how? Jan 9 - Kevin Goff...
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Some time ago I complained about the fact that a TypeConverter for Type s was missing from the .NET Framework . At the time I had search for one in the framework but only found internal or private implementations. As it turns out, the version 2.0 of the .NET Framework introduced a TypeNameConverter that...
For those who can't (or don't want to) deploy .NET Framework 3.5, the service packs included for the 2.0 and 3.0 versions of the framework are available as standalone downloads. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x86) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 1 (x64) Microsoft .NET...
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Today, S.Somasegar announced at TechEd Developers EMEA , amongst other things, that they the product team at Microsoft is putting the finishing touches on Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5. They are on track to shipping these products before the end of November 2007. They will have the marketing launch...
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