ASP.NET 2 articles

Jul 18, 2004

This is a list of ASP.NET 2 articles (more to come):

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100% Managed Wizard Framework from Patterns & Practices

Jul 16, 2004

Interesting description of a 100% Managed Wizard Framework from Patterns & Practices by Daniel Cazzuline: "The Shadowfax Visual Studio Wizards are built on top of a managed framework for constructing wizards automatically from configuration files. When the source code for the wizards is released, you'll see that there's minimum code in them, mostly for those parts of the wizard that actually need to modify information on the current solution, called Commands. The whole wizard UI is built from the configuration file."

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sun flowers

Jul 14, 2004

My friend Didier got some nice pictures about sun flowers he got from France-Anne :-) Nice with those rainy days :-(

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A good article to read about ways to update your code to make it more testable

Jul 14, 2004

It is about ways to change your coding so that your code is more testable but it is also a good reminder about good design. I really liked the article, nice work Justin.

  • Use Interfaces
  • Define a base test class
  • As much as feasible, make everything return a value
  • Separate data access from business logic
  • Make use of configuration
  • Make Your Classes Do Only One Thing
  • Have Domain Object Factories
  • Think carefully about packaging, assemblies and namespaces
  • Pick a logging strategy early

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