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First Impressions of Resharper 4.5

Well, I broke down and installed the new beta of Resharper a few minutes ago.  This was motivated by the fact that I was working with our gigantic DAL, and 4.1 was really slowing me down (like it...

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Simplified unit testing for ASP.NET MVC JsonResult

There are quitea fewexamples floating around on the web that describe how to test your JsonResult objects to make sure the data was correctly packaged.  They all follow the same basic pattern: mock out...

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Two things missing from C#

While building some ugly code to walk the Lucene.NET Query graph, I found myself needing two bits of functionality from C# that it sadly doesn’t provide.  There are arguments for and against each of...

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Want to be a better developer?

I've been trying to put together a link list of things that have helped me improve as a developer over the last couple of years.  This is far from complete, but it's a start.  I'm not saying this is an...

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Heavy controller actions? The Message Bus Pattern to the rescue!

I recently derailed (badly) while working on a simple requirement for RageFeed: new user registration.  We decided to use the baked-in ASP.NET membership and profile providers, and I found myself...

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RageFeed’s Message Bus

In my recent post about heavy controller actions in RageFeed, I promised to show more details about how the Message Bus pattern was being employed within RageFeed to facilitate the creation of simple,...

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Test-Driven Development – From Painful to (Near) Zero Friction

I don’t like development friction.  I especially don’t like testing friction.   Over the last several years, my approach to test-driven development and the style of test cases I create has changed...

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The Application Bus

The Message Bus pattern is a pattern of enterprise application architecture that deals with the integration of systems.  It consists of several components that facilitate the exchange of messages...

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Using An Application Bus To Raise Events

I’ve been writing recently about the Application Bus pattern and how it’s used in RageFeed.  So far, I’ve shown you how it can be used to send both one-way commands as well as synchronous request-reply...

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Things Every Senior .NET Developer Should Know–Introduction

.NET will officially turn 10 years old in February.  Our platform and our community have matured and grown in that time, and today it is virtually impossible for a developer to truly be an expert in...

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Random Link Roundup

Happy Friday!  Here are some random, useful links I have come across over the last couple of weeks.  If you follow the standard of using ViewBag.Title to set page titles in ASP.NET MVC, you have...

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Random Link Roundup–8/22/2014

Happy Friday again!  Here are more random, useful links I’ve come across over the last week.Typ.io– nifty little tool for picking complimentary fonts!Just Say No to Justification– Design for Hackers...

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Random Link Roundup–9/19/2014

It’s Friday, which means another round-up of useful links.  Oh, and a cat picture!There's some really cool stuff coming with C# 6.0.  Check out some of the enhancements! Be sure to check out...

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Intro to AngularJS for ASP.NET Developers–Tomorrow night @ Nashville .NET!

I’ll be presenting at the Nashville .NET User Group tomorrow night.  It looks to be almost full already (thanks, NashDotNet peeps!), so if you’re interested, please RSVP immediately!So, you're an...

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