I’m a big fan of TDD and continuous integration, so when I first started development on Windows Phone 7, I quickly found Jeff Wilcox’s Silverlight Unit Test Framework . This unit testing framework provides a nice way to write MSTest style unit tests and...

There is quite a bit written on how to handle tombstoning on a Windows Phone. Most of the guidance is for code-behind developers. Here is an MSDN article ( How to: Preserve and Restore Page State for Windows Phone ) that shows how to use the Page’s OnNavigatedTo...

We are just about to release an update to the Windows Phone 7 Developer Guide that p&p shipped one year ago. The updated guidance takes the same scenario but updates the phone client application leveraging features in the Windows Phone 7.1 OS Mango...

Let me give you a little background on this sample. If you look at the WCF Routing Service , you can quickly and easily configure a router with endpoints and message filters in the web.config. This is a great way to set up context based routing. You can...

Yesterday we uploaded a release candidate drop of our Composite Services Guidance to CodePlex. This should be very close to our final release. The following is just a few items included in the RC drop that you may not have seen before: Enhancements to...

Yesterday we shipped the first public drop of our guidance for building composite services. This guidance includes several SOA pattern implementations such as Policy Centralization but I’m most excited about the work we’ve done around capturing business...

One of the main stories for the Web Client Developer Guidance project was to learn how to manage the JavaScript code that is required in modern web applications. This includes how to organize JavaScript, how to load it on a page (especially a problem...

Our Continuous Integration builds are run on a build server that has the necessary SharePoint assemblies, but with no installed instance of SharePoint. Licensing issues aside, this causes an interesting problem when unit tests are developed on dev boxes...

Yeah, I know. Typemock Isolator is great for unit testing against API’s that are hard to mock, but this last iteration, I found a new use for Typemock Isolator. I worked with our test team to develop a set of integration tests that are run by MSTest and...

This last iteration, we ran an interesting issue when services that we request through the SharePointServiceLocator depend on SPContext.Current. This seemed like a reasonable dependency assumption. We consume these services in feature receivers. They...

In iteration 10, we wrote HierarchicalConfigSiteMapProvider that builds up a tree of sitemap nodes based on xml retrieved from the hierarchical ConfigManager. Being a newbie with SiteMapProviders, I overwrote BuildSiteMap calling a simple recursive method...

In our SPG v1 guidance we discussed packaging site elements into features. This is particularly important if you are using the Visual Studio extensions for WSS. We found that whenever you add a site element into a VSeWSS project, a new feature is created...

Iteration 10 is complete and the drop can be downloaded here . In iteration 10 we mainly concentrated on refactoring, code cleanup and reusable assets. We will continue refactoring and scrubbing the code in the remaining iterations but please take a look...

We are now full speed a head working on v2 of the p&p SharePoint Guidance. Version 1 focused on issues common to both WSS and MOSS development like unit testing, deployment, and upgrading. For version 2, we’re looking at the following topics: Performance...

A colleague made the comment regarding Typemock Isolator: “but be aware that having such a powerful mocking facility may reduce the effectiveness of your unit tests as design aids”. I’ve used Typemock Isolator and it allows you to test your business logic...

We shipped v1 of the SharePoint Guidance with a good set of unit tests. These unit tests paid for themselves several times over each time we refactored the code base. As an agile developer, this made me very happy. After we shipped, my project manager...

We’ve completed version 1 of the patterns & practices SharePoint Guidance . The major stories we covered in this release are: Architectural decisions about patterns, feature factoring, and packaging. Design tradeoffs for common decisions many developers...

Our friends at Typemock have made it much more affordable to unit test SharePoint applications. With an introductory price of $99, they have shipped Isolator for SharePoint which is basically the same the full Isolator product except that it will only...

When developing SharePoint applications, it is common to develop custom: ASP.NET Web Forms WebParts Event Receivers Workflow coding activities One of the first things we noticed when trying to unit test our business logic is that our code will heavily...

Here is the landing page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc707819.aspx Here is the download page: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6DD3D0C1-D5B4-453B-B827-98E162E1BD8D&displaylang=en I didn't notice how much hard work...

It occurred to me after a recent advisory board call that we haven't done a good job of communicating the scenarios that prompted the development of ActiveAware views and commands. Let me describe this functionality in terms of the ability to "Save...

I've consistently pushed for simplicity on the Prism project. This was evident when we worked on our first feature: UI composition (View from one module is composed of view(s) from other module(s)). In CAB, we developed Workspaces to provide this functionality...

In my previous post, I discussed commanding and how you can hook up invokers (e.g. buttons and menu items), global CompositeCommands, and module level command instances. If you need the sending of a message to be initiated by a user gesture such as a...

WPF provides RoutedCommand which is great at connecting command invokers such as menu items and buttons with command handlers that are associated with the current item in the visual tree that has keyboard focus. However we had several scenarios that Prism...

One common method of cross module communication is through shared services. Let's say our application is composed of a shell application and various module assemblies. Our shell app provides several core services such as logging, authentication, and service...