I just had an email from a friend asking where business logic should go when using MVC - the controller or the model. I thought I'd share my reply: I think asking whether the business logic should go in the
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Testing IoC Registrations
When I first started writing automated unit tests for my code, I remember getting carried away writing lots of tiny little tests, each with a single Assert. It felt good initially to see all those green ticks, but rapidly became
WCF - Logging Before and After Operation Invocation
Here’s another custom WCF EndpointBehavior I found useful recently. Not content with logging all unhandled errors, I wanted to output a DEBUG level log message before and after every operation invocation. As before, I’m using the Castle Windsor
WCF - NHibernate Unit Of Work Endpoint Behavior
OK, my last WCF-related code snippet of the day, I promise. This is quite similar to the last one. I required that the WCF service I was developing started a new NHibernate Session for each invocation, and closed it after
WCF - Global Exception Handling
I’ve done a fair bit of WCF development recently (and amazingly I came out of it relatively unscathed, both psychologically and emotionally). Using Castle Windsor’s WCF Facility helped a great deal, but I still found myself writing a
Testing LINQ Queries
I’ve been asked “How do you test LINQ queries?” a couple of times in the past few months, so I thought I’d blog my answer for the benefit of all you lovely people. Firstly I should explain how
An MVC Gotcha and the PRG Pattern
If you’ve recently moved across to ASP.NET MVC development following years of wrangling with the leaky abstraction that was WebForms, you may have encountered some seemingly curious behaviour when posting back to the same URL. Suppose we have
MoreLINQ - IEnumerable Extension From Jon Skeet
I’ve just become aware of this MoreLINQ project containing some neat IEnumerable extensions authored by the inimitable Jon Skeet. I particularly like the look of DistinctBy – that’s gotta be a lot easier than passing custom instances of IEqualityComparer