One of things I am still learning about is the use of DI or Mocks in my coding toolbox. What's confusing me is how to avoid creating too much complexity in my application to achieve testability. What I would love to see is concrete examples of DI/Mocks in use against say business objects that show how...

I am a JavaLobby news letter subscriber and this weeks edition talks about the Spring framework . It's something I really know next to nothing about but it made me curious and I explored the site to find Spring.NET , check out this article on MSDN as well. Have other folks have experince with this?

I am a self confessed patterns junkie, I first got the patterns bug a few years back when developing software to component oriented design where you identify each pattern inside of the component. This lead me to research the GoF patterns, the MS patterns and others. Amongst these is the classic GoF patterm...

Just wanted to share some interesting finds... Frans is stirring the pot again... This is dissapointing... " Web 2.0" owned by O'Reilly Raymond is at it again (blogging GREAT STUFF!) This time, he's shared some common Patterns Posters for us to decorate our cube/office walls with Fellow User Group Leader...

Caching is one of the greatest strategies for improving the performance of our applications. Operations such as database access and web service calls can take time, require network hops and consume valuable server resources such as processor cycles. A common caching pattern is as follows: 1: public static...

One of the comments in Phil's post on using the MVP patten is mapping the Context object to a type that is based on a IContext pattern. For an example of what this does take a look at the interface here and its creation here (CreateContext method). It feels wrong me to though as your adding the request...

In my last post I pondered how a ORM and Sprocs fit in , for me a database that is in at least 4nf and has 1 to many relations with the data is going to need joins in it's queries and its really the issue of the mechs of a decent TSQL sproc that was chewing me the most (queries with joins, in's...

I have spent all day today coding a asp.net app to the MVP pattern and it's been an interesting exercise. It's a different way of thinking when developing in contract terms and can feel a little longer winded than normal, the ability to abstract the view and test the presenter makes it all the...

Dan Crevier has series of posts on the DM-V-VM pattern , including how to implement it and how ot test it. Porting to MbUnit or NUnit would be a change of referance and using statement and from [ TestClass ] public class StockModelTests [ TestMethod ] public void TestStockModelProviderGetsValue() to...

It was bound to happen sooner or later, someone comparing webforms to monorail . All of the pro's and con's make sense and from a webforms point of view it's cons like viewstate and pros like controls/vs support that stand out. For me monorails design is very important in that it follows...