Like I said before , this as been on the back of my mind for a while. A while back I introduced a way to get the MethodInfo of a method in a strongly typed way using LINQ , and that's how I'm going to make Reflective Mocks more Natural . Well, it's as easy as this: public static class MockExtender {...

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 for architects and developers building enterprise...

If you want to download IE8 Beta 1 and test it, it's here . Read the Release notes and the IE8 Readiness Toolkit which will give a detailed description of the features. If you have any feedback, use the feedback form , which allows you to submit bugs directly to the IE team! Several updates have been...

While preparing the demos for my session at TechDays Portugal 2008 , I've noticed some changes in the Web Client Software Factory 2.0 that prevented the EventBroker Extension from compiling and running. The problem ended out just being a little change in the WebClientApplication class. The virtual methods...

I just came across this today: Framework Design Studio is a set of tools for reusable library designers. The package contains a GUI tool for viewing, reviewing, and comparing versions of managed APIs. It also contains a command line tool for generating API diff reports. This seems to be a great tool...

The tool space for software architecture has been growing. There are new tools and continuous improvement in the existing ones. Framework Design Studio Last month Krzysztof Cwalina from Microsoft released the Framework Design Studio at MSDN Code Gallery . The tool allows comparing two versions of an...

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 one version of the common language runtime to another...

Yesterday I blogged about the cause of ASP.NET validators and validation summary slowness . At that point I wasn't aware of the existence of the XHTML conformance configuration (thanks Nuno ). With the XHTML conformance configuration set to Legacy , the rendering of controls works like it worked in ASP...

When building ASP.NET pages, if you use too many validators and validation summaries your pages can become very slow. Have you ever wondered why? Lets build a simple page web page with a few validators. Something like this: The page is composed of: 2 TextBox es 1 RequiredFieldValidator for each TextBox...

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't XHTML conformant, Firefox differs from Internet...