Paulo Morgado

Isolator 4.3 Released!

Today Typemock released version 4.3 of Typemock Isolator . Download it from here . What’s new? Support for Ivonna . For those of you who develop ASP.Net applications, Ivonna is a great tool, built on top of Isolator’s platform, to simplify writing tests...

Why Use Random Values For Unit Testing

On a previous post I introduced a library for generating random values for purposes of unit testing. I received a few comments and questions on my blogs [ ^ ][ ^ ][ ^ ][ ^ ]. Simon says that he’d “generally want every instance of the test I run to be...

Replacing Loaded Assemblies

Recently I’ve been asked if it would be possible to replace the assemblies loaded by a .NET Windows Service application while it was running like with ASP.NET . Like with ASP.NET, an application start and end events where needed. The solution is quite...

Using Random Values For Unit Testing

When writing my unit tests I don’t like to use hard coded fixed values because I either end up using the same values or, because of that, tests may succeed by coincidence. Over time, I have developed an helper class to generate random values for testing...

More On ASP.NET Validators And Validation Summary Rendering of Properties

On previous posts [ ^ ][ ^ ] I mentioned the size of ASP.NET validators and validation summary rendering and the fact that expando attributes are being used to add properties. Mohamed also mentions this issue. Besides the fact that custom attributes aren...

Testing With Multiple Versions Of Internet Explorer

On a previous post I mentioned IETester . Jorge Moura mentioned TredoSoft ’s MultipleIEs and a list of web browsers .

DebugBar, Companion.JS And IETester

Some days ago a colleague of mine pointed out to me this tool ( IETester ) that allows testing the different rendering and JavaScript engines of Internet Explorer (5.5, 6, 7 and 8beta1) side by side with the installed version. I haven’t tested IETester...

Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (aka StyleCop)

I’ve learned from a fellow GASP er of the release of Microsoft Source Analysis for C# (aka StyleCop) . It’s still a work in progress but it’s already very useful.

Pedro Félix Is Blogging

Pedro Félix is blogging about WCF .

Getting .NET 1.1 CLR String Hash Codes In The .NET 2.0 CLR

Everyone knows (or, should know) that values values retrieved from the GetHashCode method should not be persisted for later use, specially with strings , because: The behavior of GetHashCode is dependent on its implementation, which might change from...