Got back from holiday today to find my DDDSW (26th May) session on unit testing in Visual Studio 11 has been accepted.
I see the event is already full, but hope to see some of you there
Read MoreA blogged a while ago about a problem faking multiple SPList with Typemock Isolator in a single test. With the release of Typemock Isolator 7.0.4.0 you no longer have to use the workaround I documented.
You can now use the code if the originally planned, and it works as expected
1 1: public partial class TestPage : …
Read MoreAs part of the on-going effort in documentation I have recently published more documentation for the TFS build extension project activities
- AssemblyInfo
- CodeMetric (updated) and CodeMetricHistory
- File
Read MoreOne of my favourite new features in VS11 is that the unit testing is pluggable. You don’t have to use MSTest, you can use any test framework that an adaptor is available for (at the release of the beta this meant the list of framworks on Peter Provost’s blog, but I am sure this will grow).
So what does this mean and …
Read More- I have just added a page to the blog that lists some of the podcasts I try to listen to, in an attempt to keep up to date.
Read More Ours is a fast moving industry and as times goes on I find the need to specialise more and more. However, I believe there is a great value in at least having a passing knowledge of as much of our field as possible, IT pros can learn from developers and .NET team from Java and of course the other way around.
I find the …
Read More- Whilst writing documentation for TFS community build extensions (just published the Zip activity documentation) I hit upon a problem working with TFS11. The TFS community build extensions support both TFS2010 and TFS11beta, unfortunately the two versions need to be built separately (once against TFS2010 DLLs and once …
Read More - I posted yesterday on using Typemock and Microsoft Fakes with SharePoint. After a bit more thought I realised the key thing in using Typemock I found easier was the construction of my SPListItem dataset. Typemock allowed me to fake SPListItems and put them in a generic List
then just make this the return value for the …
Read More Updated 5 May 2012 Also see my follow up post, this corrects some of the information of faking SharePoint
I have done posts in the past about how you can use Typemock Isolator to fake out SharePoint to speed design and testing. The reason you need special tooling, beyond standard mocking frameworks like Rhino or MOQ, …
Read MoreWhilst travelling I had neglected to post about the new release of Typemock Isolator Version 7. This new release extends the range of the product to provide a variety of ‘test support tools’ that help you track down bugs sooner.
However, the best new feature for me is that it allows support of historic versions of …
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