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...