Jeremiah Clark's Blog

Version 1.2.0.0 of these Unit Testing Extensions are available on CodePlex today. The original post that talks about the project can be found here .  An updated NuGet package is also available . This release contains additional assertions on IEnumerable<T>...

Using SQL Server Compact 4.0 from PowerShell is easy and powerful. Here is an example that shows how to reference the needed libraries, create the database, and add a table to the database – all from PowerShell. 1: $binpath = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft...

For the purposes of this post, let’s say that we are building a community blogging site.  We want multiple users to be able to maintain separate blogs on the site.  We have an area in our MVC application that is called Blogs .  We have...

I have become a huge fan of NuGet lately.  It really makes managing references and dependencies a lot easier. If you are not familiar with NuGet, here is the description from its site: NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) is a free, open source developer...

For the entire month of January, I am doing the Daddy Day Care thing for our 4 month old twins.  Since I can’t really work during this time, I figured that it would be a good chance to catch up on some reading that I have been putting off. This book...

I just released version 1.1.0.0 of these Unit Testing Extensions on CodePlex today. The original post that talks about the project can be found here . This release contains additional assertions on DateTime, ICollection<T>, and String. This release...

Like most people, I assume, every new year I come up with a set of goals that I would like to accomplish during the upcoming year. But I never seem to write them down, so I always forget what my plan was by the time February rolls around. So starting...

Chris Tavarez has provided a handy adapter ( UnityServiceLocator ) for using ServiceLocator to resolve types from a Unity container. You can then use ServiceLocator.SetLocatorProvider() to register the UnityServiceLocator as the default provider for ServiceLocator...

A custom Role Provider is a very useful tool for adding custom authorization to your ASP.NET and/or ASP.NET MVC applications. A common use for a custom Role Provider is when you have role information stored in a data store that differs from the schema...

When using Unity as your IoC container , one way to configure the container is to use an configuration section in your app.config or web.config file. A simplified example of this configuration is shown below: 1: <? xml version ="1.0" encoding...

One of my favorite features of ASP.NET MVC is the support for JSON . In MVC, an Action Method in a Controller can return a JsonResult. This really comes in handy when integrating with jQuery to provide AJAX-like functionality in an application. In...

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler" Albert Einstein With all of the software design patterns available to developers, I think that we sometimes lose focus of the pragmatic development approach: Write code that works. Don’t...

There is a meme going around Facebook where everyone is writing 25 random things about themselves. I thought I would share this on my blog as well. So without further ado, here are some random facts about me: 1. I get really annoyed when people...

A few co-workers and I lately have been having this conversation. The following hypothetical argument illustrates the con of the argument: How can we be engineers if we can’t agree on what we’re building? Do engineers have conversations...

I have been working on a project that uses the Entity Framework as the persistence store. I am implementing a global search capability that returns results from the various entities that have a string property that start with a given query string. So...

Last night I wrote a post about the Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions that I put out on CodePlex . I forgot to mention one of my favorite features that the library provides. I showed how you can use the library to write readable unit tests like the...

This is a personal hobby project that I have been working on recently. The code has been released on CodePlex and can be found here . The Visual Studio Testing Extensions is a library that exposes a set of extension methods to provide a way to write more...

Function caching, or more specifically memoization , is a code optimization technique that can be used to speed up code that calls complex functions with the same inputs.  Let's take a look at the classic fibonacci function: 1: private int Fib( int...

This is something that I put together in a few minutes to provide a way to refresh a partial view on a specified time interval. Let's create a MVC User Control that displays the current date and time called "TimeControl.ascx": 1: <%@ Control...

So I was thinking tonight, what if I want my MVC application to serve images that are stored in a SQL database as binary data? Or files that are stored in the database?   One of the things that I really like about MVC is that ability to add...

Ok, I have to admit it: jQuery is awesome. If you haven't started looking at it, I highly recommend that you do. It works wonders in the ASP.NET MVC world. One of the best things about jQuery is the enormous number of plug-ins that are available for adding...

The early previews of the MVC Toolkit contained a few helpers that are not available in the current MVC Beta and MVC Beta Futures .  On of the ones that was nixed was the CheckBoxList helper.  I was in need of this type of functionality lately...

A few days ago, I wrote a post about creating custom IE8 Accelerators .  I thought that I would stick to the same IE8 theme and talk about another new feature that I really like: Web Slices. Here is a brief introduction about what Web Slices are...

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is currently available.  If you haven't downloaded it yet, you can find it here .  I have been using it for about two months now and I am really enjoying some of the new features.  One of the features that I find...

If you are like me, then you might have multiple Console applications in your projects folder that you use for testing small chunks of code.  I think at one point recently, I was up to ConsoleApplication28 before I cleaned up the unused projects...