It doesn’t take much unit testing before you come across a dependency in the class you are testing for another object. Hopefully your classes are loosely coupled and you are able to make a substitution for this other object. It seems most people call these substitute objects mocks but a mock is a specific thing. […]
I want my entity classes to rely on their ID when checking equality, the ID is populated from the repository when I retrieve an object and automatically generated when I save a new entity. This poses the problem of how I compare two entities before they have been saved while working with them in my […]
While it may seem easier to throw all code into one project, it is good practise to separate areas of code into different projects within a solution. This helps promote good design with principles like loose coupling and high cohesion. A solution layout I like is: Domain – contains the domain layer and data interfaces […]
Just installed Visual Studio 2010. The first thing I tried was creating an new Cloud project. The whole process was surprisingly painless. After creating the solution, I was prompted to download and install the Azure tools. Once they were installed, I deleted and recreated the solution and was prompted for which Roles I wanted: After […]