Derik Whittaker

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• Unit Tests to the rescue

  Today started off in a bad, bad way. Because of some issues I had earlier in the week with my source control repository (SCR) I was doing a ton of work offline. Today I was able to regain access to my SCR I decided to do a full get. I was fully expecting... Posted Oct 02 2008, 09:44 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, Humor

• Testing your IoC Bindings

  One thing I like to do when I am using a IoC (Inversion of Control) container is to create simple test that ensure that my objects have been wired up correctly and can be created via the IoC container. I know this may seem like overkill, but I feel that... Posted Sep 10 2008, 06:53 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Development, TDD, Best Practice

• Unused code is the worst of the 7 Wastes of Software

  Today I was having another round of conversations with a buddy of mine about the concept of waste and unused code. In agile there is a concept called YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It) that basically states that you should not add code that is not immediately... Posted Aug 06 2008, 04:21 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 32 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Methodology, Opinion

• Remote Pair Coding Idea

  Yesterday Kyle Baley mentioned ( here ) that he had given some thought about doing remote pairing with various people as a learning exercise. I know he has mentioned this to me in the past and I always thought it was a great idea. However, I was never... Posted Jul 29 2008, 12:50 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Announcement

• Upgrading DimeCasts.net to MVC Preview 4

  Today I decided to sit down and upgrade the Dimecasts.net code to run on MVC preview 4. To be honest I did not know exactly what to expect, and I have to say, it was kinda painful but not too bad. Let me first start off by saying this. Anyone that decides... Posted Jul 26 2008, 01:30 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC, DimeCasts.Net

• RhinoMocks new Arrange, Act, Assert does not seem to work under MSTest....odd

  -- UPDATE See text in red below -- Ok, I am in NO way trying to say that this is either Rhino's issue or MSTest. I am simply blogging this with the intent that someone can shed some insight as to what may be going on. Although, since I know that the... Posted Jul 23 2008, 10:38 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• How to have a Single Config File for multiple developers

  In my last post I talked about how you can share a single config file among multiple project in a solution.  One of the feedback comments I got was how to have a single config file for multiple developers or even multiple environments.  So,... Posted Apr 16 2008, 08:13 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, .Net, HowTo

• 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

• Simple extension methods to help with Asserting values

  In the past I have written about the Fail Fast principle.  This is a principle I try to live my development life by.  I would rather explicitly check for possible failure points then have a runtime error crop up.  In the past when writing... Posted Apr 10 2008, 07:49 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, Opinion, Featured

• Sorting List's the .Net 3.5 Way

  This post is another in the recent string of How-to's. But it is just so hard to resist. .Net 3.5 has so many cool features, it is just fun to explore them all. Ok, so here is the issue we are going to solve today. We have a list of entities and we... Posted Mar 28 2008, 09:09 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, Opinion, HowTo, Linq, Lambda

• Simple way to Convert IEnumerable<Entity> to List<IEntity>

  Today I ran into a case where I needed to convert a result set of IEnumerable<Entity> from a Linq2Sql command to a List<IEntity> in order to return the data back to the caller.    We all know that giving the following code public... Posted Mar 28 2008, 12:04 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 12 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net, Lambda

• App.Config issues when running NUnit via Resharper

  ***** Update ***** This issue is directly related to a #R 4 EAP issue. I was using build 755 and this was an issue. As of build 762, this is no longer an issue. ******************** Today I encountered some odd behavior when trying to run some tests against... Posted Mar 25 2008, 08:43 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Agile, TDD

• [OT] Where Do Automatic Properties go in your class file?

  Ok, so I know this is a odd question but I am stumped. Normally when I have a private instance level variable that is exposed via a property I format my class file as such. { ..... all instance variables ..... any constructors ..... any public/private... Posted Feb 02 2008, 08:37 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development, Feedback, Opinion, Best Practice

• Using System.ComponentModel Attributes to your advantage

  The System.ComponentModel namespace (more information here ) in .Net contains an array of various attributes that every .Net developer should know about.  These attributes provide a way for the developer to implement design-time and run-time behavior... Posted Jan 30 2008, 07:03 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Development, .Net IDE, .Net, UI, WinForms, HowTo

• Debugging .Net Framework Source from VS 2008

  As you may have heard, Microsoft has released the .Net framework source to the world.  No, you cannot make changes or additions, in fact it is being released under the Microsoft Reference License .  If you would like more information about the... Posted Jan 17 2008, 06:33 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Development Tools, .Net IDE