Just a few more examples, kind of a follow up to my Simian Satasin Asynchronous Calls Entry. Keep in mind, I’m providing these as examples, I do NOT suggest writing tests with Thread.Wait calls in them. Very very bad practice. [TestClass] public class GetRestServices { private XDocument doc; [TestMethod] public void TestSynchronousCallWithHttpWebRequest() { … Continue reading →

All I wanted was an asynchronous WebClient call. What do I get? Tons of dead links in MSDN, tons of pure crap of non working code all over the net. Then I realized I needed to search for silverlight AND asynchronous instead of just asynchronous. Anyway I finally found some legit code snippets and put... Continue reading →

While checking out more ideas for my data generation tool/app/libraries I stumbled on this video of a presentation by Ben Hall. The presentation “DDD7 Session Video – Microsoft Pex – The Future of unit testing?” is a great introduction to the PEX framework/toolset. If you write unit tests, or are trying to get started writing... Continue reading →

On the tail of my recent additions to the data generator app I?ve been building I fell right into a need for the middle name to be generated along with standard names. Here?s how I went about fixing this situation up with a sling at TDD & such. The first thing I did was a... Continue reading →

I jumped in head first to get things updated. Went after the ASP.NET MVC Engine, grabbed the toolkit for Silverlight, made sure the Silverlight SDK was updated, got the Deep Zoom Composer, Blend installed, made sure SP1 was installed, grabbed the WPF toolkit, and? ok, at this point I lost track. I think my home... Continue reading →