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The Illusion of Persistence: Saving Test Data
I recently introduced the BookRepository, which is a set of a few classes designed generated fake data. The idea is that if you are writing a test or a demo and just need some data objects and don’t want to have to worry about the ins and outs of a real persistence layer – then the BookRepository is just for you.
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Productive Writing
A while back Scott Hanselman wrote about DarkRoom, a distraction-free writing environment. I tried DarkRoom for a while a number of years back, but quickly put it down in favor of all the features of Word.
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Silverlight: Live Mesh Integration, Surviving the Olympics and Future Expectations – Interview with Scott Guthrie
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Using jQuery to Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods – By Example
A commenter recently requested a more in-depth sample demonstrating the technique I used in my Using jQuery to Call ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods post. He wanted to see how you could use jQuery to send the contents of a GridView row to a WebMethod page.
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Poor Man’s Client Templates
Today I posted an article to my blog on the Infragistics site: Building an Ajax Master/Detail Page with the WebDataGrid.
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BookRepository: The Mock Data Repository for Testing and Demos
My schedule is packed lately with writing test beds and sample code for presentations. One of the problems developers face when creating code that is turned over to a third party is to answer the question: what do you do about a data source? Over the years we’ve seen efforts like Northwind, AdventureWorks and even recently the NotNorthwind movement crop up in order to create an easy-to-use relational database tests and demos. Often, however, developers just need data and shouldn’t be bothered with connection strings and other sorts of database setup.