.NET developer at Appyparking, Pluralsight Author and Microsoft MVP
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Unit tests become more valuable if they are expressive and flexible. A good unit test should not only test your code, but also document it. Creating expressive and flexible unit tests is not always easy however. The reason of this is that there’s an inherit di…
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In my previous post “Why choose DI Interception over Aspect Oriented Programming?” I explained my preference for DI interception over AOP. I received a lot of comments on this (especially on reddit) which pointed out some errors. In this article I want to reit…
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Note: I have posted a follow-up post with some corrections to this post, thanks to some comments made on Reddit: A brief comparison of AOP techniques Let me start with saying that in this post I will explain why I think Dependency Injection is a better way to…
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Dividing an application in N layers is considered a standard and a best practice. It is often thought that this automatically creates a decoupled application. However, just creating layers doesn’t make your code loosely coupled. A typical N-layer application L…
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Namespaces In most programming languages we know the concept of** namespaces (or packages)**.****Namespaces allow us to group code and help us to avoid name-collisions. In c# for example you have this declaration namespace MyNameSpace { public class MyClass {…
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Often I see problems arise when people try to tackle Javascript. Taking a certain behavior for granted can get them frustrated. Javascript has little differences but they can cause unexpected results if not taken into account. One of those differences is the…
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NuGet is awesome! There are so many packages though that it’s very difficult to know which ones are useful and which can be missed. Therefore I have created a list of the NuGet packages that I find most useful when developing for Windows Phone and Windows 8. S…
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Earlier I wrote a blog post on a specific method to implement code sharing between Windows Store and Windows Phone applications. In this post I want to zoom out a little bit and look at the different techniques available and explain what the differences and ad…
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Tombstoning your application data in Windows Phone can be tricky when you are using the MVVM pattern. In order to save your data you have to do it between the NavigatedTo and NavigatedFrom events of the page. In your ViewModel you don’t have access to these ev…
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Background With the latest batch of releases in Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 Microsoft has been trying to close the gap between both development platforms. (The old “write once, run everywhere”-idea) Although both platforms are based on the same Windows 8 ker…
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In my previous post I explained how you could use “Extract Interface” and “Subclass and override” as effective techniques for breaking dependencies and get existing code under test. In some situations there are other methods either more appropriate or easier t…