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For the last 6 months I’ve been leading a small team to deliver a “best of breed” ecommerce retail site, based on ASP.NET MVC, Sharp Architecture, NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, Spark View Engine, N2CMS, Castle Windsor, xVal Framework, AutoMapper, PostSharp, Gallio / MBUnit / DevelopWithPassion.bdd, Solr and SolrNet. We delivered it in 10 x 2 week ...

This is part 3 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

This is part 2 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

This is part 1 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows: Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the AccountController Asp.Net MVC ...

  One of the benefits of Asp.Net MVC is that it allows you to write easily testable code. One thing that has always been notoriously difficult to test is the HttpContext object and its associated values – the Request and Response etc. This is why I didn’t like it when dependencies on HttpContext started to creep into our Controller actions, ...

On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Visual Studio, the solution looks like: Solution ‘MyApp’ +---Data |   ...

  As I mentioned in my first post (and will probably continue to do so for the unforeseeable future), I recently attended JP Boodhoo's Nothin' But Dot Net training 'boot camp' which has motivated me to start to write about some of the stuff that I learnt and am still trying to make sense of... The main focus of the course was using ...