Derik Whittaker

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• StructureMap and Loaded Plugins Gotcha

  One of the really great things about the latest release of StructureMap is that I do not need to register objects by default if they follow a standard convention (i.e. if I want to register a controller called ‘AuthorController’ and accessed via ‘AuthorController... Posted Dec 18 2008, 08:33 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, .Net, StructureMap, ASP.Net MVC

• Foundations of Programming EBook - Great Read & ITS FREE

  If you have not hear, Karl Seguin has authored a great, short eBook which he is giving away free to the world.  This book is based of his blog series of the same title. Do yourself a favor and go download this book, it is pretty short and is a great... Posted Jul 10 2008, 08:38 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Agile, .Net, Shout-Out, Featured, Announcement

• Thoughts on Testing an API

  Over the past few weeks I have worked on a few products for my client that will be used as API's.  These API's will be used by either their own (external) clients or other internal departments.  Working on these projects made me think... Posted Apr 14 2008, 07:32 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net, TDD

• NUnit, Class Assertions or Constraint Assertions

  I finally got around to upgrading to the most recent version of NUnit recently (Yea I know, bout time) and found out that there is a new way of doing assertions.  The new model is referred to as the 'constraint' model and follows a more fluent... Posted Jan 09 2008, 06:44 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, .Net, TDD

• Using RhinoMocks with StructureMap to mock expected calls

  What do you do when you are writing a test for a piece of code that calls out to an ‘out of your control’ service such as a web service or email server? If you are like most of us, you simply allow your test to make the call and ‘hope’ that the service... Posted Jul 24 2007, 09:32 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks

• StructureMap Tip: Using Concrete classes as a PluginFamily

  Have ever wanted to use a concrete class as both the the PluginFamily and Plugable (information on StructureMap's attributes here ) type in StructureMap ? I know I have, just today in fact (not the first time, but thought I would post about it this time... Posted Jul 23 2007, 05:43 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Development Tools, Agile, .Net, TDD, StructureMap

• Mocking a Web Service Proxy

  Today I finally had to create a mock of a web service proxy, what fun. Of course the first go at it failed because I did not think about the fact that the web service proxy is NOT serializable. This sucked, so what was I to do. Well, fortunately for me... Posted Jul 05 2007, 08:09 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, .Net, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• Rhino Mocks vs NMock: Part 1, Stubs

  Over the past few months I have really started to believe in the use of Mocks. When I first started using mocks, I started with NMock (mostly because that is what we had at work). Shortly after that I started playing around with Rhino Mocks at home. Since... Posted Jun 13 2007, 08:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, .Net, TDD, NMock, Rhino Mocks

• InternalsVisibleTo: Testing internal methods in .Net 2.0

  Ok, so maybe I am the last person on the planet to learn about this new attribute, but oh well. Last week a co-worker of mine came across this attribute when doing some research and both of us just kinda looked at each other and smiled. See, for a long... Posted Apr 09 2007, 06:33 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, .Net