Integration Testing in a Development Environment With SpecFlow — Part 1: Cassini

When developing web applications on anything other than a
trivial scale, anybody who is anybody in the community will likely tell you
that testing is an absolute must. Their rationales will be…

Regular Expressions in .NET C#

Whilst the topic is fresh in my mind, I’m going to take
stock and solidify what I have so far learned about Regex — a groovy
abbreviation for ‘Regular Expressions’. Essentially Regex’s are a template for
matching sequences of characters in data. In this blog entry, I will be…

Zip-Me-Quick — Rapid Zip File Creation In C#

Intro

Many scenarios in the life of a .NET developer may require the compression of files into a zip. If you want to do it rapidly, if you want to add multiple files, if you want to include directories — then out-of-the-box…

Code First with Generic Repositories and BDD (“that’s exciting” eh, Rob Conery?)

Intro

I’m writing this blog entry to review my initial use of Entity Framework 4 Code First in combination with generic repositories (via a repository factory) and…

Found My Spark — The Spark View Engine

The super customisable ASP.NET MVC framework gives us the choice when it comes to many things. View engine being just one of them. Having used the default Web Forms view engine on personal projects, the NVelocity view engine at work, I was exposed to the Spark…

Get The First Date In A Week, Given The Week’s Number — With Help From BDD

Intro

This week I had an interesting task which was to calculate the
first and last day in a week given the week number. In the wider context, this
was part of a filtering…