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February 2009 - Posts

Unit Testing The MVC JsonResult

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 this Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:12 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 4 Comments
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The Plethora Of Prodigal Patterns

"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 get me Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 11:30 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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25 Random Things About Me

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:49 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 0 Comments
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Are Software Developers Really Engineers?

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 like this: Read More...
Posted Sunday, February 08, 2009 3:37 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 17 Comments
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Dynamic Expression Trees

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.  Read More...
Posted Friday, February 06, 2009 2:30 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 2 Comments
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Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.0.0.0 - Continued...

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 5:29 PM by Jeremiah.Clark | 1 Comments

Visual Studio Unit Testing Extensions v1.0.0.0

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 03, 2009 2:07 AM by Jeremiah.Clark | 7 Comments
 
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