Monthly Archives: May 2010

Testing assumptions with preconditions

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

While driving design with unit tests, I often break behaviors out into separate classes, both to increase cohesion, and as a side effect, increase testability.  Occasionally, I run into situations where I have some sort of environmental variable that never … Continue reading →

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The religion of dependency injection

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

A quick way to explain a set of differing opinions is to label it as “a religious argument”.  In a post about using MEF on NerdDinner, Scott Hanselman showed an example on using poor man’s DI versus regular DI.  Now, … Continue reading →

Posted in Dependency Injection, Rant | 21 Comments

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Views

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

Other posts in this series: Controllers Contextual controller injection Filters Action Results And now for a bit more controversial shift.  While most folks doing DI in ASP.NET MVC see the benefit of the ability to provide injection around the controller-side … Continue reading →

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Caveats of C# 4.0 optional parameters

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

C# 4.0 includes lots of shiny new hammers for us to bang away at every new and existing development problem we face.  One of the more interesting features is the concept of named and optional parameters.  Consider this rather cryptic … Continue reading →

Posted in C# | 12 Comments

Teaching ASP.NET MVC Boot Camp on May 26th

Posted on May 13, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

A lot of what I try to do on this blog, user group presentations, and other community events is to try and share the knowledge and experience that I and my teammates have built up over the years.  I’ve hosted … Continue reading →

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Starting and using Git successfully

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

It took quite a while (around 2 months) for me to finally become comfortable with Git.  Why so long?  One of the benefits of Git is that it’s very powerful.  It’s also one of the drawbacks.  It was a bit … Continue reading →

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AutoMapper 1.1 released

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

Today I pushed out the 1.1 release of AutoMapper.  From the release notes: Features Adding support for Silverlight 3.0 Auto-implementing INotifyPropertyChanged Conditional member mapping Destination member prefixes, postfixes and naming transformers Enhancements Nullable destination types more obvious Late binding configuration … Continue reading →

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Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Action Results

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

On a recent, very large project, we started to notice a distinct trend in our controllers.  All of our “POST” actions started to look very similar.  Check form validation, run business rule validation.  If validation succeeds, execute the actual business … Continue reading →

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Dependency Injection in ASP.NET MVC: Filters

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Jimmy Bogard

So far, we’ve looked at extending the advantages of dependency injection to our controllers and its various services.  We started with a basic controller factory that merely instantiates controllers to one that takes advantage of the modern container feature of … Continue reading →

Posted in ASP.NET MVC, Dependency Injection | 20 Comments