I am working on a feature that will let me import twitter messages to yonkly and wanted to write a test for it.  The method is private and I couldn’t get the unit test to see it.  I also didn’t want to use the private accessor class generate by Visual Studio because I was mocking […]

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Tags: mstest, tdd, testing private methods, unit testing, vsts

I have a method that handles sending of emails.  I wrote it so that it would run asynchronously, so that it won’t slow down the web app.  It looks like this:

protected static void SendMail(string to, string subject, string body)
{
try
{
using […]

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I just spent this morning upgrading the Yonkly code to work with the newly released ASP.NET MVC Framework Preview 3.  I thought I would document what I did here, so that it might help others trying to upgrade their projects.  Note: I haven’t deployed the upgraded version to yonkly.com but released the source code.
Setup
Yonkly was […]

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I apologize for the delay of releasing the source code for Yonkly (the twitter clone). 
The code is still not 100% ready but I have received so many requests for the source code and figured it is better to put something online until I clean it up than wait until I reach perfection (a moving […]

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Tags: asp.net mvc, Open Source, source code, twitter clone, yonkly

Yesterday, I gave a talk at CMAP Code Camp about the asp.net mvc framework and AJAX using JQuery. This is my first time speaking, so I was a little nervous. I think I did ok but I can’t really tell. Of course, the talk didn’t go as planned, because Visual Studio didn’t […]

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Tags: AJAX, asp.net, cmap, codecamp, jquery, mvc, talks

[update: Yonkly source code is now public]
Asp.net MVC framework rocks. I wanted to play with it more and decided why not build an open source twitter. Unfortunately, I couldn’t come up with a better name for it that had an available domain so Yonkly it is. Come to think of it Yonkly […]

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Tags: asp.net, mvc, projects, yonkly

I am working on an asp.net mvc application and I wanted to make the user’s main page (profile) be www.domain.com/username.  This is a problem because the routing engine in MVC treats the first item after the domain as a controller.  Ofcourse I could do a {*catchall} and do my own parsing but why re-invent the […]

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Tags: asp.net, mvc, tips, url rewriting

I have just spent the entire day playing with Moq to unit test an asp.net mvc application I am working with. All I wanted to do is test a “create” method that simply adds a record to the database. So here it goes.
1. I created a Mock Http context to be used by my controller. […]

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Tags: asp.net, LINQ, mocking, moq, mvc, Testing, unit testing