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EasyMock.NETFans of NUnit should find this a useful package. Unit tests are typically easy to write until you start testing the bowels of a more complex system, where an object depends on many other collaborators or services to perform its task. Providing a non-mutating version of these related objects can be quickly become a tiresome task, which is where EasyMock comes in. Provided the objects to mock out under test implement an Interface (and they should, right?) EasyMock auto-generates an implementation which can assert the number of times methods are called, provide specified return values, check the order of method calls and simulate exceptions. Last Updated: 25 April 2004 |
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Lutz Roeder's Programming.NETA short site including some interesting downloads with source code including nice utilities for examining assemblies, creating ResX packages, working with matrices and a some controls. The .NET Reflector is an particularly useful tool which I would recommend to anyone using .NET. Last Updated: 23 January 2004 |
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IDesignJuval Lowy's .NET consulting/training site has a number of good articles to read through. There's also the IDesign C# coding standards guide that looks pretty good to me. One bitch though: if you want to suggest a coding standard then it would be nice to know the reason for it. Just knowing the answer, even if it's right, isn't always helpful. But then again, I hadn't published my coding standards standards guide until now... Last Updated: 23 January 2004 |
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divil.co.ukIncludes .NET code articles and some very high quality controls for docking and command bar support, which are free to use for non-commercial projects; although unfortunately source code for the controls is not available. Articles about designers, collections and scripting make good reading though. Last Updated: 23 January 2004 |
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ARsT DesignExcellent .NET site published by Stephane Rodriguez with (startlingly) a good blog too. Code covers C#, C++, XML and some very interesting IE samples. There is also a nice diff tool with HTML output available which I've found to be pretty useful. Last Updated: 23 January 2004 |
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Win32 to .NET Framework API MapUseful MSDN article mapping the Win32 API to the .NET Framework API. Functions are categorised alphabetically and in groups and the list is pretty comprehensive. Sadly no sample code though; and some of the mappings whilst apparently correct don't mention the hoops you need to jump through to achieve the same functionality. Last Updated: 23 January 2004 |
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C# CornerLike CodeProject, this is a submission-based site and has some high quality publishers so therefore some worthwhile articles. I particularly enjoyed some of the code in the Algorithms and GDI+ and Graphics sections; look out particularly for articles from Mike Gold. Last Updated: 7 November 2003 |
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SQL BuddyNice open source IDE for MSDE and SQL Server providing similar functionality to Microsoft's venerable Isql/w with the addition of a Tree browser for the database objects and a nicer looking UI. Developed in C#, it reuses the SharpDevelop editor, so you get syntax highlighting and auto-complete, and DotNetMagic for menus and docking bars, so you get a VS.NET style interface (and a few bugs too :). Last Updated: 27 September 2003 |
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Microsoft FXCopMust download tool - similar to Java CheckStyle but more useful. Checks compiled assemblies for some coding style elements (such as use of CamelCase and method and field capitalisation), common OO errors (like default constructors in Abstract classes) and Framework errors and omissions (such as failing to declare Permissions and other attribute related errors). Very instructive - I learnt at least ten things the first time I used it. As a side note, I'm not sure how people do it but this application has an icon that displays poorly at every single possible size and colour depth in Windows. Not bad going, but isn't the first... Last Updated: 27 September 2003 |
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Sharp Vector Graphics (.NET SVG Processor)SVG is an extremely good idea. Imagine being able to create graphs on a server of any platform and represent them using a reasonably sized easily readable SVG file. Then deliver them to any browser anywhere and have them render beautifully at any scale or DPI setting? Sadly that isn't quite the reality, since you need to download the nasty Adobe plugin to view SVG in the browser (anyone want to check if there's a new version of the plugin available before showing a single image? I didn't think so) and of course most XML formats are hardly reasonably sized. But as bandwidth gets cheaper at least we're getting closer to being able to generate the SVG in the first place with packages like this great SVG rendering implementation in C# - whilst not complete it includes a fairly comprehensive implementation of the SVG 1.0 DOM and worked well in my admittedly trivial initial tests. Last Updated: 8 June 2003 |
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