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We all know that in the ideal world, our web apps would have "sufficient" automated tests. But how? I'm not an expert here, but I've come across four general strategies: Description Example PRO CON Send web requests, and then parse the correspondi...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
1/28/2010
C# let’s you call another constructor from a given constructor, but only before the body of the calling constructor runs: public C(int x) : this(x, null) {  // … } public C(int x, string y) {  // … } Why can you call another constructor at the b...
[ In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] This is the fourteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post c...
Charlie Calvert
1/27/2010
Welcome to the sixtieth community convergence. I’m going to continue to keep this short, but I plan to update more frequently. Eric Lippert: Why are unused using directives not a warning? Sam Ng: The Pain of deploying Primary Interop Assemblies Sc...
ADO.NET Team Blog
1/27/2010
Do you want to help define the future of the Entity Framework? We are actively looking for Software Developer Engineers in Test (SDE/T). With the successful release of Visual Studio 2010 and the team moving to the next release, we could use your h...
A couple of days ago I accidentally derailed the comments on Eric Lippert's blog post about unused "using" directives . The reason that redundant code doesn't generate a warning in Visual Studio is that it's what you get to start with in Visual St...
Scott Hanselman
1/27/2010
NOTE: An alternative title to this post might be: " The Weekly Source Code 48: Making The Weekly Source Code 47 Suck Incrementally Less. " Last week I wrote a post about Dynamic Linq Query Generation in order to solve a kind of meta-programming pr...
This morning, while checking out an email I'd received about my brain-teasers page , I discovered an interesting change to the CLR in .NET 4.0. At least, I think it's interesting. It's possible that different builds of the CLR have exhibited diffe...
I’m currently playing around with ASP.NET 4.0 Beta 2. There are lots of bugs to fight with, but I’m looking forward to RC1, which should be available soon. It’s coming with a GoLive Licence, so when you put your ASP.NET v4.0 bits on IIS7, don’t fo...
MSDN: Visual C# Headlines
1/26/2010
Microsoft's Alexandra Rusina explains the subtle difference between the “dynamic†and “object†keywords.