Posts Tagged ‘ASP.NET’


Unit Test Authorize Attribute

Technorati Tags: Unit Testing,ASP.NET,MVC,VS 2010
Story: I want to write a unit test to ensure that the Authorize attribute is applied to a controller ActionResult or ViewResult so that security is tested.
Here is the test:

Unit Test

[TestMethod]
public void PreviousSiteUserConversion_Authorization_Attributes_Have_Been_Applied()
{
    // Arrange
    MethodInfo varietalMethod = typeof(AdminController).GetMethod("PreviousSiteUserConversion", new Type[] { });
 
    // Act
    var attributes = varietalMethod.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AuthorizeAttribute), true);
 
    // Assert
    Assert.IsNotNull(attributes);
    Assert.AreEqual(1, attributes.Length);
    var authAttribute = (AuthorizeAttribute)attributes[0];
    string[] [...]

Impressed with CrystalTech for .NET 4.0

Technorati Tags: .NET 4.0,Hosting,ASP.NET
I’ve used CrystalTech for years. They seemed to be falling behind a bit when I started to work with the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern. That works MUCH better with IIS 7 than with IIS 6, but CrystalTech only had IIS 6 servers.
That’s all changed!
I now have no excuses for not upgrading my sites [...]

MVC – The Start

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET,MVC,Code Analysis,Unit Testing
This shows my initial setup of an MVC 2 RC 2 application. Using Visual Studio 2010 RC I selected File –> New –> Project… then under Visual C#, Web, I selected the ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application.

Then when I click OK I get the following dialog. Since I’m a very [...]

Testing HtmlHelper in MVC 2 RC 2

Technorati Tags: MVC,TDD,Mock,Moq
I strive to use TDD (Test Driven Development) so not having unit tests drives me crazy. I was so pleased to run across this post http://ox.no/posts/mocking-htmlhelper-in-aspnet-mvc-rc1-using-moq making it easy for me to unit test the Html Helper.
But then I downloaded the MVC 2 RC 2 and all my unit tests for HtmlHelper broke! [...]

Showing the Version for an MVC App

Technorati Tags: MVC,ASP.NET,VS 2010
The primary MVC (Model-View-Controller) application that I’m working on is called KarlZMvc resulting in a dll called KarlZMvc.dll. To get the version output on my Site.Master page I need to include the following line:

Code Snippet

<%= typeof(KarlZMvc.MvcApplication).Assembly.GetName().Version.ToString() %>

I tried all sorts of combinations with the GetExecutingAssembly, or calling, etc. But none seemed to [...]

Globalization in web.config

Technorati Tags: MVC,Globalization,ASP.NET
Headline: Putting the following code in the web config (at least for an ASP.NET MVC app) will cause your pages to honor the user’s browser settings.

Code Snippet

  <!–If culture and uiCulture are set to auto, ASP.NET can set the UI culture and culture for a Web page automatically, based on the values that are [...]

Forget the Colon as a Separator

Technorati Tags: MVC,ASP.NET
Headline: Only use a colon as a separator when there is no other visible means of separation. Stated differently, “Stop using a colon between a label and a text box!”
Back in DOS (Disc Operating System) when there was no graphical user interface we needed a way to let the user know what the [...]

Using AspNetSqlProvider on Your Database

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET
Headline: Run “aspnet_regsql.exe”.
User Story: As a web developer I want to use the AspNetSqlProviders for my website using an SQL Server database so that I can more easily host the site.
Take 1:
I was excited about the new ASP.NET MVC 2 being in the beta for 2010. So I created a new site. I [...]

Saturday Night Wrestling with MVC

Ok… It wasn’t really that bad, but it did take some effort. Here was my objective: Now that MVC (ASP.NET Model-View-Controller) 1.1 has been released (not sure how I missed that) to work with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 migrate my evolving website to use the .NET 4.0 beta.

I was able to get it [...]

Leveraging MVC ModelError Using Exceptions

Headline: A very simple change to the DefaultModelBinder will allow you to use default validation capabilities in Microsoft’s MVC (Model-View-Controller) Framework far more effectively.

The Problem – Please show my model exceptions to the user!

As Steven Sanderson stated in his book, you want to have the validation for your model in an MVC application in the [...]