Improving security with unit tests and reflection
Back in November of 2014, Phil Haack published his Avoid async void methods blog post—it contained two useful things: a warning about an antipattern (I have ...
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Building and Testing ASP.NET 5 Projects in TeamCity
We’ve been using TeamCity for a long time due to its widespread use in the .NET community—generally, if it can be done, someone’s already done it and blogged...
Combining EF6 with ASP.NET 5
For some upcoming work my team is doing, we wanted to use Entity Framework as our base DAL (with a micro-mapper like Dapper overlaid on top) and ASP.NET 5 as...
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Code Coverage for SQL Server 2012 LocalDB-driven Tests With TeamCity and dotCover
I started working on improving a codebase recently and one of the best ways to do that is to start writing tests. The site is heavily database driven, so a n...