I went to a talk at the Midlands Developer Network, a user group based near Coventry, UK, that try to meet up once a month on Micro ORM’s.A Micro ORM is essentially a cut-down version of a standard … more
In unit testing I often want to check a private field has been set when running a test and I created the following helper method to do that: 1: /// <summary> 2: /// Set private field on … more
I created this useful testing method I need to create today, uses recursion to loop down through to the correct base class to execute: 1: /// <summary> 2: /// Execute private static method … more
Had fun today, learning MEF! I wanted to be able to get multiple exports available in the catalogue to be accessible through a property on a class. For example say I have a collection of log providers … more
I had to create another useful test helper today which tests private generic methods. I realise test purists would say you should not test private methods but I find it a much quicker way of unit … more
Came up with a useful little extension method today. I wanted the fluent nhibernate configuration to export the hbm files when the site is being run in debug mode.
1: /// <summary>
2: … more
Remembered a useful way to redirect assembly bindings to newer versions:
1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
2: <configuration>
3: <runtime>
4: … more
For several of my projects I use a repository pattern for the data access layer which sits above Fluent NHibernate. Using generics I can then replicate the same features for all entity repositories. … more
I had fun today trying to work out why I could not get the date column of a data form grid to be formatted correctly. Listed below is some xaml markup of the dataform..
1: <df:DataForm … more
I really dislike magic strings in code, and whenever I can I try to avoid using them either by using constants and what have you. So you can imagine what I felt like when I started raising property … more