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 > Dictionary { get { throw new NotImplementedException...

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...

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 be run inside a recording block without confusing...

Typemock is having a special Webcast on Wednesday March 12, 16:00 GMT The live demo will include: The Support of the new .NET 3.5 framework and specifically how to mock LINQ statements. The improved IDE based on using colors to emphasize mocked methods. Seamless integration with  Microsoft’s...

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...

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).

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...