Paulo Morgado

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...

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.

Typemock Isolator v4.2.4 Released

Typemock released version 4.2.4 of its Isolator mock framework . You can check out the release notes in The Typemock Insider blog and download it from the Typemock Isolator Download page .

Stretching Type Inference

Note: Code in italics is not actual C# 3.0 syntax. Local Variable Type Inference C# 3.0 brought us local variable type inference mainly because of LINQ . The output of a query can vary from an IEnumerable<T> or an IQueryable<T> to a single...

Web Authoring Component install fails when installing Visual Studio 2008

While trying to install Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite in my Windows XP Professional system it kept failing when installing Visual Studio because it couldn't find the Web Authoring Component (after installing having just successfully installed it). I've...

TypeMock Isolator 4.2 Released

TypeMock has released version 4.2 of its mocking framework: TypeMock Insulator. Check out the release notes . My four favorite new features in this release are: Improved mock chaining Debugger evaluation doesn't change the test behavior The debugger can...

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 shipped

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 February 2008 Release Resources MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf About the Deliverable The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance...

Techdays Portugal 2008 - For A World 2.0

Microsoft Portugal will be hosting Techdays 2008 from Mars 12 nd to 14 th , right after the Portuguese launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 , Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 on Mars 11 th . This is the biggest and greatest...

Typemock Insulator Is Typemock Isolator

Yesterday I made a mistake with the name of the next version of TypeMock . The real name is TypeMock Isolator. Whatever the name is, you should try it out.

TypeMock Insulator 4.2 Beta Publicly Available

TypeMock (now called) Insulator 4.2 Beta is publicly available. Check out the release notes . One of my favorite new features is the improved mock chaining. Take this class to be tested: public class TestedClass1 { public IDictionary < string , object...