Posts Tagged ‘MVC’


Unit Testing a Very Simple ViewResult in MVC

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I have a view that really only provides content, is there a quick way to test that it exists? What’s the Assert?
There’s really not much to unit test if you have a page that has only HTML in a MVC (Model-View-Controller) project. And to some extent, if you had a test [...]

Unit Testing CodeSmith Insight

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As anyone that knows me knows, I use test driven development. So when I put together a Feedback page in my MVC (Model-View-Controller) site I started with my test. What should the test be?
Let’s start with the User Story : As a site user (anonymous or logged in) I want to submit [...]

Unit Test Authorize Attribute

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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

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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

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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 [...]

MVC Overview

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What’s different about Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller)?
There are some very good books about MVC (such as Steven Sanderson’s book), but here are the features I enjoy the most:
Routing – The routing model in MVC makes you really think about what you want your URLs to look like. In EVERY instance my application ended [...]

MVC – Upcoming Series

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I’ve been playing with Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC (Model-View-Controller) application on and off for about a year now. It’s been moving at such a fast pace that it seemed I was always starting over with another install – CTPs, V1 Visual Studio 2008, previews for Visual Studio 2010… And now I’m currently on [...]

Testing HtmlHelper in MVC 2 RC 2

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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! [...]

Error Check for MaxLength in Entity Framework

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HEADLINE: edmProperty.TypeUsage.Facets[“MaxLength”].Value comes in handy.
I don’t make a habit of making a post when someone else has done some work… I might point it out, and in that spirit here is the post that finally sent me in the right direction: http://soci.hu/blog/. However, the post is not in English (fortunately, C# is [...]

Showing the Version for an MVC App

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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 [...]