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 (); } }...

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...

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 yet, but I found two other tools in the site that...

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).

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...

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...