Derik Whittaker

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• Setup up StructureMap 2.5 to Auto Configure your dependencies

  One of the great new features with StructureMap 2.5 is the ability to have the container auto-wire you dependencies. This means that if you want to you do not need to register all your types. Prior to this release if you wanted to map IFoo to Foo you... Posted Oct 13 2008, 12:47 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap, HowTo

• Partial Mocks with the StructureMap AutoMocker

  If you have not checked out the new AutoMocking Container that is part of StructureMap 2.5 I would highly suggest you do, it rocks. I thought I would show how simple it is to create a PartialMock on the Class under Test (CUT) when using the RhinoAutoMocker... Posted Oct 10 2008, 07:54 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks, HowTo

• Using the RhinoAutoMocker that is part of StructureMap 2.5

  One of the new features that is part of the next release of StructureMap 2.5 is a AutoMocking Container. What is an AutoMocking Container, well per Jacob over at Eleutian an AutoMocker is AutoMockingContainer is simply a IoCContainer with a custom facility... Posted Oct 05 2008, 01:58 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, TDD, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks

• StructureMap Automocker & FillDependencies Error(230)

  I have been giving the AutoMocker that is part of StructureMap 2.5 a go lately. Today I was trying to setup my test and I get running into the following error: failed: StructureMap.StructureMapException: StructureMap Exception Code: 230 Cannot call "FillDependencies"... Posted Sep 19 2008, 09:41 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap, HowTo

• Setting up IoC/DI for your Controllers in ASP.Net MVC

  One of the really great things about the ASP.Net MVC framework is how extendable it is. One area of extension is in the area of controller creation. The framework allows you to replace the default ControllerFactory with your own factory and because of... Posted Aug 15 2008, 07:48 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap, HowTo, ASP.Net MVC

• StructureMap Change to ObjectFactory.ResetDefaults()

  It appears that with the new release of StructureMap 2.4.9 (aka 2.5) the usage of ObjectFactory.ResetDefaults() has been replaced by ObjectFactory.Reset(). Now why is this important? I used .ResetDefaults() in my unit tests when I wanted to reset the... Posted Jul 30 2008, 06:52 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap

• Using your app.config (web.config) to store your StructureMap settings

  With the most recent drop of StrcutreMap (2.4.9 -- aka 2.5) you now have the ability to put your wiring information inside the app.config file. Prior to this you needed to either use the StructureMap.config file or wire your dependencies up in code. So... Posted Jul 24 2008, 11:51 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap, HowTo

• MSTest, why I hate you.... You cause me too much friction

  Yesterday I spent 4+ hours trying to tackle a bug that should not have been a bug in the first place, and the culprit was MSTest. Please keep in mind that I have never really used MSTest in any real form. I am a NUnit guy through and through. Here is... Posted Jul 23 2008, 09:28 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 16 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap, Rant

• Using Moq with StructureMap causing a 220 error

  While writing some code today I thought I would give Moq a shot in place of RhinoMocks.  One thing I was very happy about was that I found it very easy to pickup, which is a plus.  However, I did want to mention one small gotcha I ran into. ... Posted May 11 2008, 11:07 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: StructureMap, Moq

• Testing controller actions inside ASP.Net MVC

  ***** DISCLAIMER ***** The techniques and information here were not all thought up by me. I got a lot of this from Scott Hanselman's screencasts, and at looking at other MVC projects. I am only putting this into a post to have a single point of reference... Posted Mar 08 2008, 11:23 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: TDD, StructureMap, Rhino Mocks, ASP.Net MVC

• StructureMap 101 Error Gotcha

  Today I was putting together a test app for a few presentations I am doing in the coming weeks (announcements on these coming soon).  While doing this I kept getting a 101 exception when trying to build an object via StructureMap's ObjectFactory... Posted Feb 02 2008, 02:48 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, StructureMap, HowTo

• Reseting Defaults in StructureMap when Injecting Stubs

  This is just a short FYI post because this caused me some headache recently. One thing to keep in mind when you are using StrucutreMap and are Injecting Stubs into the ObjectFactory, you will want to reset the ObjectFactory engine after you done with... Posted Jul 26 2007, 07:05 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: StructureMap, HowTo

• 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

• What I'm Learning

  This post is in response to Sam Gentile's post over at code better I'm Learning Rhino Mocks NHibernate StructureMap Policy Injection Blocks Log4Ne t (yea I know, what took so long. Answer, last few apps use the Logging App Block) MonoRail (about to start... Posted Jun 08 2007, 05:18 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Development, Development Tools, Agile, TDD, StructureMap, NHibernate