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My article on Pex is now online at MSDN, it provides you with an overview of Pex and how to use it on legacy code. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee819140.aspx

To work with Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server, the collation settings for SQL Server (2005 / 2008) must be: 1. case insensitive (clear the Case - sensitive check box), 2. accent sensitive, 3. and not binary. To avoid problems...

Peli provides a good overview on how you can use Pex Moles to unit test SharePoint applications by mocking away the SharePoint API calls. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/pexsharepoint.pdf

Moles is a lightweight mocking framework that provides a mechanism to stub non-virtual methods Static methods, methods in sealed types, constructors Moles is Delegate based, it provides hooks for the developer to provide their own mock implementation...

A unit test is a method without parameters that represents a test case and typically executes a method of a class-under-test with fixed inputs and verifies that it returns the expected result. A parameterized unit test (PUT) is simply a method that...

You can download the latest version of Pex from here: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/downloads.aspx

Pex goal is to automatically and systematically produce the minimal set of actual parameters needed to execute a finite number of finite paths. It automatically produces a small test suite with high code and assertion coverage. It has been leveraged by...

Some of the key benefits of Unit Testing include:  Trusted Code : Unit Testing is the best mechanism that a developer can use to make its code rock solid, by creating unit tests for all possible paths in a method the developer can ensure that it will...

No this is not an “art of living” post where I talk about how you can improve your life with doing more yoga and taking less stress :). I rather wanted to focus on how to reduce the impact of changes in the software system and elaborate the design principles...

The Application Architecture Guide 2.0 by PnP introduces the concept of “an architecture frame”. It provides guidance on where to start and what key aspects to look for when designing the architecture of a system. At the minimum a good architecture should...

An all time favorite read: http://martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/whoNeedsArchitect.pdf ? The best part I liked about it was this statement: Software is not limited by physics, like buildings are. It is limited by imagination, by design, by organization...

Determine what you are designing for: The first and the most critical part of designing an architecture is to understand what are the objectives of the application. What is it intended to do and what purpose will it solve. While developing a product a...

Thanks to the Patterns and Practices team for rolling out the Application Architecture Guidance 2.0. I was always been a big fan of their first edition and this one was long awaited version but is surely is worth the wait. The detail and precision...

When assigning a password in Vista / Win2k8 it should meet the following requirements: 1. Not contain the user's account name or parts of the user's full name that exceed two consecutive characters 2. Be at least six characters in length 3. Contain...

Microsoft has its own approach to implementing SOA. Termed as the middle out approach, the basics behind it is to provide a balance between the Top down (too much design) and the bottom up (scattered implementations). It suggests that an organization...

Ok let's think about it , Microsoft is a software company which provides a huge set of products to solve various business problems, each product is complete by itself but can also be used in conjunction with other products in a loosely coupled manner...

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1. read all the contents of a File string output = File.ReadAllText(<FilePath>); 2. Write contents to a File File.WriteAllText(<FilePath>,Encoding); 3. Convert String to Byte Array byte[] buf = System.Text.Encoding.<Encoding>...

string _siteUrl = " http://localhost "; using (SPSite _site = new SPSite(_siteUrl)) { using (SPWeb _web = _site.OpenWeb()) { SPFolder _folder = _web.Folders["<Document Library Name>"]; _web.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true; _folder.Files.Add("Contoso...

Recently I got into a scenario where I wanted to call a WCF service from within an Infopath Form service, Infopath does not supports configuration files so my service was not able to pick the Binding and Endpoint setting for the Service at the client...

Although VS 2005 provides awesome support for developing Web parts one of the pain points can be debugging a web part, some tips on how to debug a web part : Two methods: Direct: Attach debugger to the w3wp.exe process that hosts SharePoint...

Some common confusions (terms :)) with respect to SO Business Process It consists of a sequence of activities that produce a valuable result. Business Activities Business activities or tasks are the units that when combined form the business...