Author Archives: Lee Rodgers

S#arp Architecture

By Lee Rodgers | June 20, 2010

I have been doing some work and research with ASP.NET MVC 2.0.  My first interest was to try to figure out how to get Dependency Injection working with ASP.NET.  I started doing investigating how to link in Springframework.net.  This direction led me down a track that required some manual configuration.  This is when i found [...]

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Interesting Links – RoR and MVC.NET

By Lee Rodgers | March 23, 2009

A couple topics I have been looking into lately are Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET MVC.
Here are some helfpul links I found along the way.
Visual Studio Add-ins – I have heard of quite a few of these. The link is kind of old but some of the tools are still relevant.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300778.aspx

Free Chapter on MVC in [...]

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Team Foundation Server Restore Headaches

By Lee Rodgers | September 14, 2008

I was in the process of trying to restore my TFS Server to a different machine until there was time for it to be rebuilt. This turned out to be quite a headache. Once all the querks were identified it wasn’t all that bad but it took much longer than it should have. Here are [...]

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Hartford Code Camp – Spring.NET Presentation Material

By Lee Rodgers | August 18, 2008

This Saturday was the first Hartford Code Camp. I presented on SpringFramework.NET specifically regarding Inversion of Control (IOC).
The presentation is in PowerPoint and discusses some of the basic concepts that need to be understood prior to understanding Spring.NET.
The source code is what was demonstrated during the presentation. It contains two solution folders.

TightlyCoupledClasses – Example of [...]

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Hartford Code Camp

By Lee Rodgers | August 18, 2008

This weekend was the first Hartford area Microsoft Code Camp. It was very successful with well over 150 attendees and over 22 presenters. We presented the following topics:

Lee Rodgers – Spring.NET & IOC
Reddy Kadasani – Silverlight – Lighting up the Web

Presentation content and demo content will be posted to this site in the next few [...]

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Testing BizTalk Applications

By Lee Rodgers | April 29, 2008

Found a great resource today for how to go about testing BizTalk applications.  It covers best practices on how to unit test various BizTalk artifacts such as schemas, maps, pipelines, orchestrations.  This covers how these should be covered with tests for integration testing as well as functional testing.  Very interesting read.
http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson/archive/2008/04/27/121687.aspx

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How to Easily Document BizTalk Applications

By Lee Rodgers | April 29, 2008

One of the tasks developers find most tedious is documentation.  It gets to the point that documentation never gets done in many cases.  This is where documentation tools comes in handy.  There is a documentation tool that is available that analyzes the BizTalk application and creates a CHM file containing:

Send & [...]

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Unit Testing BizTalk Applications

By Lee Rodgers | February 27, 2008

Unit testing is a best practice when it comes to application development.  BizTalk development falls into this realm of application development so it would be great to be able to unit test these applications as well. 
The most commonly used unit testing tool with BizTalk is BizUnit (http://www.codeplex.com/bizunit).   This is a step based test framework [...]

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