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Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing In C# with NUnit (2nd Edition)

Posted on May 18, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I’ve written hundreds of tests, read dozens of articles and listened to several presentations on unit testing, but until recently had never actually read a book dedicated to the subject. In reviewing my options, I was told repeatedly that I … Continue reading →

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Lazy PowerShell Coalesce-Args

Posted on April 3, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

A while back I posted a coalesce function for PowerShell that would try to return the first non-null argument passed to it. One drawback of this function is that each argument expression will be evaluated before being passed into the … Continue reading →

Posted in posh-git, powershell | 1 Comment

posh-git Release v0.1

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I’ve made a bit of progress on posh-git since my last post and figured now is as good a time as any to tag a v0.1 release, which you can download here. In this release… Git Branch in PowerShell Prompt … Continue reading →

Posted in git, posh-git, powershell | 3 Comments

posh-git: A PowerShell Environment for Git

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

I’ve been meaning to put together a post about this for a few days, but Mark Embling beat me to it. I’m a big fan of PowerShell and Git, but had never bothered using them together until Jeremy Skinner’s post … Continue reading →

Posted in git, posh-git, powershell | 2 Comments

SPWeb.AssociatedGroups.Contains Lies

Posted on January 27, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

While working on SPExLib (several months ago), I revisited this post, which presented a functional approach to a solution Adam describes here. Both posts include logic to add an SPWeb group association, which most simply could look something like this: … Continue reading →

Posted in Extension Methods, SharePoint, SPExLib | 1 Comment

Extension Methods on Types You Own?

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

It’s no secret that I’m a fan of using extension methods to make code more concise and expressive. This is particularly handy for enhancing APIs outside of your control, from the base class library to ASP.NET MVC and SharePoint. However, … Continue reading →

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Quick Tip: Parse String to Nullable Value

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

When you’re dealing with a system like SharePoint that returns most data as strings, it’s common to want to parse the data back into a useful numeric format. The .NET framework offers several options to achieve this, namely the static … Continue reading →

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Selecting Static Results with Dynamic LINQ

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

Dynamic LINQ (DLINQ) is a LINQ extension provided in the VS 2008 Samples. Scott Guthrie provides a good overview here: Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library), but the executive summary is that it implements certain query … Continue reading →

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HTTP Error Codes in WatiN 1.3

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

One of the biggest surprises when I started working with WatiN was the omission of a mechanism to check for error conditions. A partial solution using a subclass has been posted before, but it doesn’t quite cover all the bases. … Continue reading →

Posted in testing, WatiN | 3 Comments

Script to Enable HTTP Compression (Gzip/Deflate) in IIS 6

Posted on January 8, 2010 by Keith Dahlby

One of the easiest ways to improve web site performance is to enable HTTP compression (often referred to as GZIP compression), which trades CPU time to compress content for a reduced payload delivered over the wire. In the vast majority … Continue reading →

Posted in HTTP Compression, IIS, Performance | 3 Comments