Garry Pilkington


Application Developer
Liverpool, UK

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Full Circle
Things have been a little bit hectic these past 6 months hence the lack of posts. My excuse is a good one though, my wife gave birth to our first son Tom back in September and it has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride since then. Things have settled...
Branching and Merging with TortoiseSVN
For this example I am using Visual Studio 2010, TortoiseSVN 1.6.6, Subversion 1.6.6 and AnkhSVN 2.1.7819.411, so if you are using different versions, some of these screen shots may differ. This is assuming you have your code checked in to the trunk directory...
Setting Up MVC Using StructureMap, Moq and NUnit...Quickly
When I was first attracted to the Microsoft MVC Framework, one of my main ambitions was to develop using a more test driven approach. There are ways to include Unit testing with WebForms, but the friction was just too much to justify on the web projects...
WinMerge as a Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2008
Ok I know VS 2010 is the new toy to be seen playing around with, but as I have just recently  got delivery of my new Windows 7 pc I thought I would document how to get WinMerge to work as a comparison tool with VS2008 Team System. If for anything...
Multiple Strongly Typed Partial Views in MVC
Creating strongly typed views with the ASP.Net MVC framework is really easy, but what if you want to have multiple types on the same view? One way to achieve this is to create partial views for each type and creating a combined view model. Then the view...
Posted: Oct 20 2009, 09:29 AM by capgpilk | with 12 comment(s)
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Unit Testing Videos
The Learn Visual Studio.net website has just published a new series on unit testing , covering an introduction to unit testing, using MSTest, and NUnit. These are always good sources of practical information to help you get up to speed on anything .net...
TempData and DropDownList in ASP.Net MVC
TempData Sometimes while developing web applications, you have a need to keep certain data between web requests. In asp.Net MVC you can use TempData which will keep hold of any values you pass to it for that request and the next request when it is then...
Posted: Sep 29 2009, 11:15 AM by capgpilk | with 7 comment(s)
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Code Snippet Plugin for Live Writer
For anybody who regularly displays code using Live Writer, then this plugin by Leo Vildosola is a must to check out. When ever I do a rebuild of any of my computers this has to go on and I always have trouble remembering where I found it. So here are...
Complex Types in the Entity Framework
In this post I will describe the process you need to go through to get a stored procedure to return a complex type in the Entity Framework. It is very easy in the Entity Framework to quickly create crud functions that will manipulate data in your tables...
Do you test your private methods?
There is ample discussion on the blogosphere as to why you should or shouldn't test your private methods.  In the 'NO camp' http://www.redhillconsulting.com.au/blogs/simon/archives/000119.html , http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/chad_myers/archive...
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