aspnet
I often find the need to set values in ViewData when calling partials that are reused across the website. It might not make sense always to make that value part of the Model. You can do so currently by doing… <partial name="_ProfileImage" model="image"
dotnet
I’ve been writing some chef cookbooks recently. And you often see tests in chef that looks something like expect(chef_run).to(create_template('/opt/xyz.yml') .with_cookbook('other_cookbook')) And, when I came back to writing C# again, a Fluent Assertions statement seemed
asp.net
Kamal previously known as MRSK, is a deployment tool that makes it easy to build your website as docker image and deploy them on to a bare metal or a virtual machine. It takes care of making sure there are no down time while a new release is created. Follow
stripe
I am trying to avoid using any auto mocking library. And instead trying to rely on Fakes when writing unit tests. There is an alternative approach to writing unit test using mock available elsewhere. When it comes to creating a stripe webhook controller on asp.net MVC, we need to
dotnet
This blog post is only applicable if you have Mac development machine and wants to develop against .NET framework. The solution involves spinning up a windows 11 virtual machine on virtual box. But will require minimal manual steps. Only revert to this approach after you’ve tried other approaches such
blazor
I’ve been a fan of testing library when I was working with react about 2 years ago. Since then, I’ve started working on a project that’s using Blazor Web Assembly for front end. However, haven’t come across a similar framework for testing Blazor component that’s
dotnet
When it comes to developing an ASP.NET MVC application for .NET Framework on your non Windows dev machine, you can make use of Mono Framework. A word of caution that Mono is no longer developed since .NET 5 was released. However, if your application targets .NET Framework version 4.
dotnet
Hopefully not a lot of people are facing the issue of having to work and maintain an application thats written in .NET Framework. If you are having to, hopefully you’ve got plans to get it migrated and running on one of the latest .NET versions. But, in the mean
dotnet
StructureMap allows you to replace an already registered type mapping by clearing all previous registrations for the type and adding new one. The example in the documentation clears all previous registration for the type within a registry. What if you want to replace the registration from the Container after mapping
dotnet
MassTransit is an open source library that is an abstraction over some of the popular messaging/bus technologies. I have used it for interacting with RabbitMQ bus and have found the experience very pleasant. There is a pitfall that most developers fall into (myself including) when writing a test for
dotnet
I first came across MiniProfiler when I started a new ruby on rails project. It came built in and I found it very useful to see the time requests spend and a breakdown of it. I think it was only visible on development environment. I found myself asking the question
testing
Many are now familiar with using typed configuration that’s available in .net core and .net 5 with the help from Options pattern. However, if you are working on a projects targeting .NET Framework, you will know ConfigurationSection from System.Configuration assembly. ConfigurationSection allows you to group related configurations together