I'm having this odd problem when I use Visual Studio 2008 in a multi-monitor situation. Should anyone have any stories on how they could fix this issue or prevent it from happening, I’m all ears. I’ve got two monitors. One of them is my laptop screen, another is a monitor connected via ... [More]

I’ve been using [hacking at] NHibernate as my main ORM choice for just over a year and I’ve been exceptionally happy with the growing number of projects to augment it’s functionality, especially the Fluent NHibernate and LINQ-to-NHibernate contributions. NH isn’t exactly a si... [More]

In Part 1 of this series I demonstrated how QUnit can be used to test JsonResult action methods in ASP.NET MVC applications. Part 2 will take the idea a little further by showing an example of how QUnit can be used to inspect potential user-input areas on your MVC forms and to use those values in te... [More]

One of the problems that face any web developer is their ability to properly test the GUI components of their sites. A few options exist, specifically Watin, with varying degrees of success. Now that I've been experimenting with the ASP.NET MVC framework I've modified a good deal of my GUI work in s... [More]

I think there exists some value in a direct mapping between your software's system roles, the functions provided to each role, and the tests one writes to verify that each type of user can perform each task with the same desired outcome. Albeit a simplistic (or trite) view of the process of creating... [More]

My good friend Scott Cate has launched a really helpful blog called VSTricks.com. Each post has video demonstrations of how to accomplish various helpful functions using Visual Studio. Super-helpful site. You should check it out.

I've been creating a few extension methods here and there recently and figured I'd share one of the ones I'm using in a lot of places. This one is an extension method named Append that you can use with a generic IDictionary implementor to do quick-and-dirty creations of the object. I've found this t... [More]

Scott does an excellent job in his introduction blog post to the new features in the ASP.NET MVC beta release. The Model Binder support is an excellent feature for which I wanted to put forth a simple example.  In essence, Model Binding allows you to pass an object into your controller methods... [More]

A few days ago a collegaue of mine blogged about performing DI on the cheap. His post got me to thinking about the various IoC containers and DI frameworks that have sprung up (no pun intended, sorry for that heinous attempt at geek humor). As I've been working through the Social Timeline architectu... [More]

Made some improvements in the GUI for the Social Timeline and fixed a few bugs in the XML retrieval. Next step is to add additional provider support. I think I might use Unity for this to learn a little more about implementing IoC using it. I've been using Spring so far and love it but I'd like to t... [More]