Mocking IDispossible with “Using”

Mocking objects is integral part of Unit Testing. The nucleus of Mocking is Dependency Injection, which allows us to inject Mock object into the code. But what happens when programmer has used the "Using" keyword ? For Example, This makes it difficult to mock DbCommand. The solution lies in deploying Factory Pattern to create our CustomDbCommand. For … Continue reading Mocking IDispossible with “Using”

Batch Execution in Firebird

Executing a .sql file on Firebird Database can be quite a messy job. The lack of proper documentation and support would hurt you more when encountered issues and that is what I faced when I required to do execute contends of a .Sql File. Having understood that FbBatchExecution is the command I would required, I went to … Continue reading Batch Execution in Firebird

Exception Handling in Web API (Part 2): Exception Filter (Extended)

The Exception Filter implementation mentioned in the Part1 of the article is fairly simple and straightforward.  But as you start supporting more and more Exceptions, the Cyclomatic Complexity of the "OnException" method would increase because of the "if" condition nature. A cleaner implementation of the Filter is shown below using Dictionary. Isn't that cleaner ?  

Exception Handling in Web API (Part 1): Exception Filter

The Web World, especially Web Services is fast moving towards the more abstract simpler Web API. This article is not focused on comparing Web Service and Web API, but rather it focuses on Exception Handling in Web API. By default,  the most common exception that an API Controller raises are translated into an HTTP Status … Continue reading Exception Handling in Web API (Part 1): Exception Filter

Hello World in Ext JS and ASP.Net MVC4

Javascript based frameworks has been evolving of late and one of the prominent among them is External Javascript, better known as Ext JS. Unlike some of its competitors like Angular JS, Ext JS distinguishes itself with a rich suite of UI components. It is cross browser compatible. I am delving more into details of Ext … Continue reading Hello World in Ext JS and ASP.Net MVC4

Specifying singular table names

Entity Framework usually generates Tables with plural names. For example, a Student class would generate a table Students. This could be a little inconvenience for teams who insists on plural names. The solution is to override the 'OnModelCreating' Method to remove the plural features. This would ensure plural names are used in every concerned Context. … Continue reading Specifying singular table names