Tonight I updated the Dimecasts codebase from the 2.4.9 version of StructureMap to 2.5.0 and ran into few scenarios where some 'hefty' changes were required. I thought I would share the 2 major areas that needed change. Adding named concrete instances for a given interface: Was AddInstanceOf<IAddin>...

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 needed to do something like this: StructureMapConfiguration...

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. Our Class we want to mock public class VisitReassignmentRule...

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 and dependency resolver that supplies a Mock...

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" on type IGatheringPipeline...

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 this we can incorporate Inversion of Control/Dependency...

It appears that with the new release of StructureMap 2.4.9 (aka 2.5) the usage of ObjectFactory.ResetDefaults() has been replaced by ObjectFactory.Reset().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 plugin graph (is that the correct term?) because I...

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 today I thought I would simply review how to use...

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 some background on what I was trying to do (keep in...

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.  I was trying to inject a mock into StructureMap...