Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.
Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers.
The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit testing solution, and offers both Typemock Isolator, a unit test tool and Ivonna, the Isolator add-on for ASP.NET unit testing, for a bargain price.
Typemock Isolator is a leading .NET unit testing tool (C# and VB.NET) for many ‘hard to test’ technologies such as SharePoint, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, Silverlight and more. Note that for unit testing Silverlight there is an open source Isolator add-on called SilverUnit.
The first 60 bloggers who will blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Free Isolator ASP.NET Bundle license (Typemock Isolator + Ivonna). If you post this in an ASP.NET dedicated blog, you'll get a license automatically (even if more than 60 submit) during the first week of this announcement.
Also 8 bloggers will get an additional 2 licenses (each) to give away to their readers / friends.
Go ahead, click the following link for more information on how to get your free license.
I've heard a few people saying they couldn't find the link to the public Windows 7 Beta link, so if you are one of these people, please visit the following page:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx
At LessThanDot, we've decided to release a series of articles, tips and tricks which will be known as the "Hacks" series. The first installment was the popular SQL Server Programming Hacks and this week sees the release of the ASP.NET Hacks. These hacks have been split up into the following categories:
1 Applications
2 Caching
3 Controls
4 Database
5 Dates
6 Debugging
7 Email
8 Encryption
9 Files
10 Images
11 Javascript
12 Objects and Classes
13 Pages
14 Sessions
15 Strings
16 Validation
17 Visual Studio
18 Web
We've decided to release these in the wiki so that anyone can contribute to them, so feel free to add anything else that you find useful.
LessThanDot ASP.NET Hacks: http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/ASP.NET_Hacks
I just wanted to say a big congratulations to a friend of mine, Denis Gobo, on becoming a SQL Server MVP. Denis has taught me many things over the last few years with regards to SQL Server and he continues to be a fountain of knowledge on the subject. If you don't already know Denis, I'd highly recommend subscribing to his blog and check out some of his posts and blog entries at LessThanDot.
Congratulations Denis!
First of all, thank you to everyone who took part in the Friday The Thirteenths puzzle at LessThanDot. We had some great entries from all types of different languages such as .NET, SQL Server, VB6, VBA, ASP, VBScript, Javascript, Java, Perl, Ruby and Python! It was a great response from everyone and it was a very nice introduction to our first weekly puzzle so once again thank you to all contributors.
This week, the puzzle is entitled "Regular Pentagon" and the rules are:
Given a grid co-ordinate (x,y) as the centre point of a regular
pentagon, and the sum of the length of the sides, return the
co-ordinates of each point as: "Top", "MidLeft", "MidRight",
"BottomLeft", "BottomRight" and the distance from the centre to each of
the points.
This should work for any possible position of the centre point, and any length of the sides.
- All Sides are equal length in a Regular Pentagon
- x = horizontal scale, y=vertical
- scale increments can be anything you wish.. mm, cm, inches, feet, etc (doesn't matter) - though only whole units can be used
For added points, make it work for any regular polygon (and even further added points for calculating the area)
Again, any programming language is acceptable and we are looking for interesting methods that you can come up with to solve the puzzle. Remember, it's just a bit of fun and we'd like to think it will enjoyable for you to come up with a great way to solve it!
We've decided to do a recurring feature at LessThanDot and
have a "Programmer Puzzles" section with interesting puzzles published.
This week the challenge has been set to "identify all friday the
thirteenths for a given timeframe". You can use any programming language you like, just please let people know which one you have decided to use!
LessThanDot - Friday the Thirteenths
Microsoft have announce details of project "Velocity", a distributed caching mechanism for .NET. The Velocity team describe it as:
"Velocity is intended to provide distributed caching (in memory) for all .NET applications – from enterprise scale to web-scale. We believe that there are many applications that need a distributed caching mechanism, and that there is, therefore, a need for distributed caching as a core part of the .NET platform. We expect to have more integrated support for this functionality with other parts of the .NET platform in our upcoming releases."
Velocity download details
Denis Gobo has just gathered a great selection of what he calls "a collection of frequently asked questions" and posted them in a new collection called SQL Server Programming Hacks. These include hacks from various categories such as:
* 1 NULLS
* 2 Dates
* 3 Sorting, Limiting Ranking, Transposing and Pivoting
* 4 Handy tricks
* 5 Pitfalls
* 6 Query Optimization
* 7 Undocumented but handy
* 8 Useful Admin stuff For The Developer
Check out the full list here:
This morning saw the official launch of LessThanDot, a new IT Community.
For more info on the site, please read my previous blog post on LessThanDot or come and visit us directly at LessThanDot.
The IT Community of the 21st Century: http://www.lessthandot.com
What have I been up to?
It's been a while since I last wrote a blog on here, so what have I been up to? Well, it's been a very busy time for me as along with the birth of our first child, I've been working on a few startup projects. One of these that I've been working on with some friends of mine is a new IT community site aimed at providing forums, wikis and blogs for the community to discuss ideas, share knowledge and learn from the experts. This project is named LessThanDot.
What's The Difference ?
There are lots of places on the Internet that you can find that already have forums, wikis and/or blogs, so what makes this project different? Well, it's all about bringing together all of those ideas into a consistent environment that promotes the creation and sharing of knowledge. What makes LessThanDot really interesting and promising is the fact that the co-founders are experts from many of the top forums around the Internet. You'll find that you may already know some of us as we also blog on professional blogs, such as http://sqlblog.com/ and http://weblogs.asp.net. If you're even a semi-regular user of places like Tek-Tips, Google Groups, Microsoft Forums, Experts Exchange, LinuxQuestions and many others, you are likely to have been helped by one of the 30+ co-founders of LessThanDot - many of whom are top MVP's in their fields.
The Point of LessThanDot
What we aspire to do with LessThanDot is to do is deliver a quality experience for everyone (that includes professionals, students, researchers and anyone else with an interest in learning) to improve their IT knowledge and skills and raise the level for everybody. This involves more than just answering questions, but also inspiring interesting debate and discussion on best practices, methodologies and standards and continually improving the shared, community editable knowledge base of answers. Because of the many experts present of the site, we also have a blog that provides constant insight into new and interesting technologies, standards and solutions.
LessThanDot intends to cover all aspects of IT - from Web Developers to System Admins, from Architects to Data Management, IT Professionals (e.g. Project & Service management) to IT Students and Researchers, Desktop Developers to Enterprise Developers. And if you have an area that isn't there, just ask us to add it for you.
Coming Soon
We have set 1st June 2008 as our launch date, so we hope to see you join the community soon and start to share your knowledge and if you would like to learn something, feel free to ask or just browse the growing knowledge base.
The IT Community of the 21st Century: http://www.lessthandot.com
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