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 [...]
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 (var bgw = new BackgroundWorker()) { bgw.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(delegate { [...]
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 [...]
[UPDATE] Source code is now available in codeplex at http://www.codeplex.com/yonkly 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 [...]
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 cooperate. Thankfully, I [...]