Blogs and articles by Craig Dean
If you haven’t done so so already, start with – Simulating SQL Server (Part 1) Simulating SQL Server (Part 2) In the first two posts, I introduced the SqlTester library, which can be downloaded at the bottom of this post. I also showed a series of classes that implemented IDataRecord and IDataReade to allow the creation …
If you haven’t read it already, why not start with Simulating SQL Server (Part 1)? Last time we looked at creating a RecordSetDefinition as a collection of ColumnDefinition s. Once we had a way of defining what a recordset looks like, we then were able to create an ObjectRecord . The next step is to collect those …
In my last post, I talked about creating random values for all kinds of interesting types. One of the biggest complaints I get when encouraging developers to implement unit tests (or dare I say even start thinking about TDD as a development methodology) is that testing code that accesses databases is a huge pain. For …
My new year’s resolution for this year was to not only start blogging more frequently but also to Open Source some of our core libraries that I’ve worked on over the years. In preparation for that though it’s important I cover some of the basics and explain the reasoning behind some of the code we’ll …
The .NET framework is littered with the following code (e.g. from the System.Guid class): public static Guid ParseExact(String input, String format) { if (input == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(“input”); if (format == null) throw new ArgumentNullException(“format”); if (format.Length != 1) { // all acceptable format strings are of length 1 throw new FormatException(…); } … …
Anyone who knows me will tell you how important I take any opportunity to talk to young people before they enter the workforce, so when the University of Manchester invited me to give a guest lecture to their Advanced Computer Science masters students I jumped at the chance. So at 11AM on Wednesday the 18th …
So statics are generally considered evil, the enemy of TDD and IOC, and at odds with the purity of OO design. Shame they’re so incredibly fast! Whilst we’re talking about the TDD issue, I recommend you stop for a moment and go and take a look at the Fakes Framework added to VS11. Fakes is …