We are about to be audited here where I work. That is the IT department, not the company as a whole. As part of this we have to get all our IT documentation up to scratch. One problem being we don't know when they are coming and what exactly they are wanting to look at. So as far as we can see we have...

This major version adds static method support and non-public method faking to the AAA API. Check out the release notes . I don’t like the reflective approach to testing private methods. With the new additions to the AAA API, testing this class: public class MyClass { public string Public() { return this...

Some time ago I was asked if it was possible to fake output parameters with Typemock Isolator . It’s actually very easy using any of the APIs. Given this class: public class MyClass { public bool MyMethod( string input, out int output1, out double output2) { throw new NotImplementedException (); } }...

This is a post that I had written a while back and never committed to it, I think it's because the title has the potential to kick up a storm. Well I have been reading the new http://stackoverflow.com web site for the past couple of hours (I know I should be doing some real work, but I would put it down...

The StyleCop team announced the release of a version 4.3 of the StyleCop tool . You can get it from here . On this version there are some bug fixes, new rules and documentation. Also in this version, the list of errors and warnings goes to the Errors List window like with the compilers. I whish that...

Let’s face it, if you don’t know .NET Reflector, you can never claim to be a .NET developer. Today Red Gate announced the acquisition of Lutz Roeder’s .NET Reflector. On .NET Reflector ’s page, Red Gate states that “will continue to maintain a free version for the benefit of the community ”. You can...

Typemock has released version 5.0 of its unit testing tool: Isolator . Check out the release notes . This new version comes with a new API: A rrange A ct A ssert: Isolator AAA API - The Basics Isolator AAA: Creating Fakes I’ll have to say that I liked Isolator better over Isolate . Also new in this version...

Since I have been reading the book "The Pragmatic Programmer", I see the importance of using the available tools that you can find online. I have a requirement to add to a installer a zipped folder of the GlassFish (Java App Server) and then unzip it to process some files there and have GF running as...

I'm using WPF these days, and so reading and writing a lot of XAML markup. As with any code or text, reading and navigation are made easier with a clean format. In my XAML files, I've been putting the XML attributes aligned vertically, below their XML element. It looks like this: <ListBox Name="EntitiesListBox...

Typemock has updated its Developers Community Site with new sections. Besides the forums , there's a new add-ons page where anyone can share her/his tools or snippets (I guess I'll have to brush up my Typemock Snippets For Visual Studio to add there) and an experts page (guess who's there).