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Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:53 PM

SPG Continuous Integration builds not run on instance of SharePoint

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
Posted by fcheung | 2 Comments
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:52 PM

Using Typemock Isolator for Integration Tests

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
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:52 PM

What happened to my SPContext?

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
Posted by fcheung | 0 Comments
Friday, June 05, 2009 5:34 PM

Stack Overflow when building up SiteMap structure

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
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Friday, June 05, 2009 3:57 PM

Granularity of SharePoint Features and Solutions

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
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 7:54 AM

SPG v2 Iteration 10 Drop

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
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:09 AM

SharePoint Development Guidance v2

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
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Monday, January 19, 2009 5:36 PM

Sometimes Typemock Isolator can be too powerful

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
Posted by fcheung | 2 Comments
Thursday, December 18, 2008 7:37 AM

Trying to use Unit Tests as Integration Tests

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,
Posted by fcheung | 0 Comments
Thursday, December 18, 2008 5:24 AM

SHIPPED!!! SharePoint Guidance

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
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 8:05 PM

Typemock ships Isolator for SharePoint

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
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Friday, August 22, 2008 4:58 PM

Unit Testing SharePoint 2007 Applications

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
Posted by fcheung | 10 Comments
Thursday, July 17, 2008 2:01 AM

SHIPPED!!! Composite Application Guidance for WPF June 2008

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
Posted by fcheung | 1 Comments
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:46 PM

ActiveAware Views and Commands

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
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Monday, June 16, 2008 5:04 PM

Poor man's UI Composition

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.
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