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When writing ODATA controllers for our projects we spend quite some time on writing boilerplate code and input parameter validation. In addition, for our error handling we would like detailed information for internal troubleshooting but not so detailed information sent back to the client (i.e. no stack traces). In order to achieve this without extra work we started looking at […]
In case you are still using LightSwitch and are not entirely relying on its internal features, you might have started using ODATA services as LightSwitch data sources. This comes in especially handy when combined with the Microsoft Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) which lets you create decoupled components that can be easily plugged into your core application. However, as soon your […]
Instead of entering the username and password for every VCS root registered on JetBrains TeamCity it’s better to register an SSH Key for the communication with the VCS (Version Control […]
Todays blog post shows how to set up a build configuration on a JetBrains TeamCity 9.1 server that creates and publishes a NuGet package of a C#/.NET-Project. Build Configuration Setup […]
While working with OData controllers I came accross a challenge concerning authentication. The used authentication mode is Windows Authentication. I wanted to invoke an OData controller through a service reference from another OData controller with the user of the original call. The user of the original call has to be impersonated because the controller encapsulated as a service reference checks, […]
We decided setting up TeamCity 9.1 for d-fens GmbH on an Amazon EC2 micro instance. Because the server will be accessible from the internet I had to configure TeamCity using […]
To etablish the principle of Behaviour Driven Development in our development process we searched for a possibility to verify, if an acceptance criteria is fullfilled or not. Because we usually host our repositories at GitHub we decided to use the GitHub issue tracker to describe our features and acceptance criterias. Setup Issues As a first step the following two additional […]
You might have heard of the recently added support for PowerShell development inside Visual Studio. This extension provides several features, with support for the Pester testing framework being one of them. However, it seems that sometimes the Visual Studio 2013 just does not recognise your test scripts (even when they are named like SomeScript.Tests.ps1). As a quick workaround you can […]
Today I would like to quickly present you how to unit test Web.API based OData Controllers the easy way. On biz.dfch.CS.Examples.Odata you find a complete code example and some accompanying information. The idea is based on the following information (and slightly enhanced): * Unit Testing Web API OData Services – Part 1 * Unit Testing Web API OData Services – […]
While searching for a mocking framework for C# .NET we of d-fens stumbled over JustMock. JustMock is a mocking framework for unit testing developed and maintained by Telerik. Besides JustMock Telerik provides a huge palette of development tools. The probably most popular tool developed by them is Fiddler. Now let’s go back to JustMock. There are two versions of JustMock […]
Import-CliXml is a rather convenient way to import (configuration) data from serialized XML files which then can be easily processed as hashtables. But unfortunately, there seem to be some subtle […]
For evaluation purposes I wanted to run Activiti BPM Platform on an Apache Tomcat 7 which is connected to IIS 8 using ajp13. I decided to use the Apache Tomcat […]
When I was writing unit tests for an ODataController I needed the references to the Microsoft.Lightswitch.dll and to the Microsoft.LightSwitch.Server.dll in the unit test project. I tried to add them with the Reference Manager in Microsoft Visual Studio (Solution Explorer: Right click on references -> Add reference…) but couldn’t find the references. The Reference Manager allows you to browse for […]
In one of my last posts I wrote about setting up a C# build job on JetBrains TeamCity 9. Today I’ll show you how to set up a java build […]
While playing around with the docker image eternnoir/activiti I had some troubles accessing deployments, process instances and other data created in activiti explorer over the REST endpoint. It took me some time to find out why the data from explorer was not accessible over REST. If nothing else specified activiti runs with an embedded H2 database. For playing around and […]
I was asked, if it’s possible to integrate pylint into JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA 14. After having a quick look at Google I found a blog post about the integration of […]
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