Derik Whittaker

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• 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

• My first impressions with Rhino Mocks 3.5 (beta)

  I finally got around to downloading and playing with the forthcoming release of Rhino Mocks v3.5 (more info here from Ayende). The major changes to this version is that the syntax has been revamped to allow for the new language features in .Net 3.5. ... Posted Jun 27 2008, 08:23 AM by Derik Whittaker with | with 13 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, TDD, Rhino Mocks

• 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 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development Tools, Agile, .Net, TDD

• NUnit 3.0, comments by Charlie Poole

  I came across some comments by Charlie Poole today (via the alt.net news group) about the future of NUnit. As devoted user of NUnit, I am always interested in the direction of the product. Here is the posting, give it a read - here Till next time, Posted Dec 13 2007, 05:19 PM by Derik Whittaker with | with no comments Filed under: Development Tools, TDD

• 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