With the power of an IoC engine, you can inject your repositories, services, etc. when building applications using ASP.NET MVC framework. Since one of the best IoC engines out there IMHO is Castle Windsor using it has become natural more than ever, but as soon as I did, strange problems occurred when testing very simple scenarios. Continue reading

For a site I’m working on using ASP.NET MVC, I intended to place a Date badge beside the blog and news posts I’m writing. Since in ASP.NET MVC there’s no notion of custom controls (well, at least not like in WebForms) you’ll have to do this manually, but as it turned out it was pretty easy to do. Continue reading

With total control over html rendering in ASP.NET MVC there are a lot of things you can do, and this actually is correct the other way around, meaning you have to do a lot of things yourself: No fancy ASP.NET Custom Controls. It somehow reminds me of the old days, when you had to do everything to display a list of data. Back then, everything seemed manual. Continue reading

I’m preparing my website, which benefits NHibernate and ASP.NET MVC so I finally got a chance to actually do something with this nice pair. Since the pattern of SessionPerRequest and TransactionPerRequest is useful, I intended to automagically create a new session upon activating my Controller’s action, where necessary, since this cross-cutting of concerns will make your session management code separate from your controller’s code and you no longer need to worry about it. Continue reading

You all know that .NET generated application convert the high-level codes from source language (e.g. C#) and converts them to IL. Basically, if you could convert the IL code back to the high-level language, you’d have the original source code of the application, and to some extent, you can do this, but this is the story for another post. Continue reading

Great guys at JetBrains have release next version of their productivity tool, Resharper. It seems this release fixes performance and memory usage issues and performance is tuned for big projects. Continue reading

I’ve been using Windows 7 for a while now and my test experience is nearly great, with some exceptions like for occasional NVidia driver crashing the kernel and a few restarts because of it. The other day, I found something new: my sidebar gadget was missing completely! Continue reading

Finally the 2.1 version of FarsiLibrary is released. Here are the changes made into this version Continue reading

I proposed a poll to CodeProject web site a while ago to see how community is embracing the TDD and agile. There are a lot of talks in .NET community regarding writing tests (Unit Tests, Acceptance Tests, etc.) and even Microsoft is taking this seriously by providing new frameworks and tools to support the idea and encourage the developers. Continue reading

Ever wanted to have a Designer-Only properties, whose only purpose is to do something in Visual Studio? I guess you already almost know how to do this. Simply create a property with Getters / Setters and assign an Editor to it, but there are a few things you can do to enhance it. Continue reading