Mainly CSharp, ASP.NET and MVC
Whilst the previous post (BDD with SpecFlow, NUnit and MVC3–More View a List Of Products) got the job done, it could have done it a lot better. After a conversation on Twitter and in the comments on the previous post with Darren Cauthon (@darrencauthon, http://www.cauthon.com) and Marcus Hammarberg (@marcusoftnet, http://www.marcusoft.net), there are three areas where […]
Following on from this post where it looked like BDD was a spectacularly inefficient way to drive out code, I’ll add a new feature to the scenario: Scenario: Display 10 products Given There are 10 products When the product controller is told to display the default view Then the view should contain […]
In the last post I set up an MVC project and Specs project and added various assembly references to the Specs project. In this post I’ll write my first feature which is to view a list of products. The First Feature Add a features folder to the Specs project then add a new item. If […]
Up to now I have been using Test Driven Development (and occasionally just Unit Testing after the fact) but I want to start using Behaviour Driven Development as it seems a more natural way to flesh out an application. When using TDD, code is tested one unit (class or method) at a time, any dependencies […]
Currently there are two ways to add an assemblies namespace to MVC3 views,either in the web.config or with @using. When adding to the web.config, add the namespace to the web.config in the Veiws/Shared directory. Adding to the web.config in the project root doesn’t work, not sure if this is a bug or working as intended. […]
I like the code first model of Entity Framework 4 (CTP2 at time of writing). A Domain Entity can be decorated with data annotations which can then be used by the Entity Framework when constructing the database. I have no concerns adding the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations reference to my Domain; I have no intention of changing my […]
There are already plenty of good walk through for using Code First with EF 4 CTP so this a mop of of some odds and ends I found useful. I’l update this post as further releases are made / I stumble across discover new features. Adding the NuPack package EF4 (currently at CTP2) is available […]
When I create a new MVC project I normally compile and run it before making any changes. The first change I make after this is normally to the assembly name and namespace. After amending the namespaces of the default controllers and model and also the global.asax markup (which I invariably forget) I re run. […]
This seems to be a somewhat moving target with ASP.Net MVC moving up the versions as well as Ninject. This particular target will be ASP.Net MVC 2.0 and Ninject 2.0. First set up the references: Download Ninject.Web.Mvc (If not using git, there is a download source link on the page). Open the mvc2/Ninject.Web.Mvc.sln and compile […]
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 […]