I was recently working on a project where there was an option to export data from the database. The export function simply exported 2 hard-coded columns that were returned by a stored procedure into a tab-delimited text file. The sproc looked something like select id, name from mytable (I am over simplifying of course). I [...]
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 [...]
I was writing a small utility for Outlook 2007 and was using LINQ to query Outlook Tasks. This query was nested within another query. While debugging, I realized that looping though the query results in my For Each loop was taking too long. If you have read anything about LINQ, I am sure you already [...]
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Here is the scenario, I have collection of books and I want to get a book with a specific ISBN. In the old ways, you will probably have to create a custom collection and inherit a generic collection of books, then add a method to get by ISBN. Thanks to LINQ and extension methods, you [...]