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Izindaba #19
23 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! - Just in case you missed the announcement Any idea on how long we will have to wait for our MSDN Subscriber DVD's? Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 - The top 10 new features according to the Visual Basic Team. Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - Scott Guthrie...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Ajax, Silverlight, Dsl, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, VB.NET, SQL

Izindaba #1
20 July 07 12:34 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

I try to publish a short, weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content internally to the .NET community within my company . I've decided to publish this on my blog as well. I'll call these posts Izindaba ( Zulu for news) to give it a local SA flavour Here is the first public issue: VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging - Scott Guthrie on the excellent VS 2008 Javascript debugging features. C# 3.0 language features - Jeremy Miller links to some articles that shows...

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Using a DSL to create a fluent interface for unit testing your domain model
09 January 07 08:52 AM | cjlotz | 10 comment(s)

Martin Fowler's recent post on ExpressionBuilders had me smiling as we ran into a similar problem at work last year. It is great to see that our solution closely mirrors the ExpressionBuilder solution he writes about. We even named our classes Builders as well Anyway, I've been wanting to blog about it for quite a while now. Problem The problem we needed to solve was how to effectively unit test our domain model that we created using the principles highlighted in Domain Driven Design . The...

Filed under: TDD, Dsl