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How to Test RavenDB Indexes

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tdupont 22 days, 17 hours, 25 minutes ago

RavenDB offers an EmbeddableDocumentStore NuGet Package that allows you to create a complete in memory instance of RavenDB. This makes writing integration tests for your custom Indexes extremely easy. (more)

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Alphanumeric Lucene Analyzer for RavenDB

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tdupont 37 days, 9 hours, 29 minutes ago

RavenDB allows you to save typeless documents into a data store, but the only way to query them is by indexes that are built with Lucene.Net. I found myself in need of an Alphanumeric analyzer; this analyzer is similar to the SimpleAnalyzer, but still respects numeric values. Fortunately Lucene.Net's base classes made this easy to build... (more)

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Understanding .NET Garbage Collection

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Every program needs memory. Unfortunately, memory is finite. (more)

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SQL Server NOLOCK Hint

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Where locking causes problems with queries it can be useful to execute those queries with the NOLOCK hint. This specifies that a query should ignore existing locks and create no data locks. However, the hint introduces the potential of data corruption. (more)

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MVC JSON Model Binder Attribute

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tdupont 40 days, 6 hours, 45 minutes ago

Moving complex data structures from client to server used to be difficult, but not anymore! Just add the JsonBinder attribute to your action parameters, and this Custom ModelBinder will automatically detect the type and parameter name, and deserialize your complex JSON object to the data structure of your choice. (more)

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.NET String Extensions: Split Qualified

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tdupont 40 days, 7 hours, 12 minutes ago

Split a string and take qualified and escaped values into account. For example, split on commas outside of quoted substrings. (more)

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Report Unhandled Errors from JavaScript

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Logging and aggregating error reports is one of the most important things you can do when building software. If you are like the vast majority of websites out there, then you don't know about JavaScript errors, and it's time to fix that! This article talks about reporting unhandled JavaScript errors using the window.onerror event handler with StackTrace.js, and gives solutions for projects built in jQuery and ASP.NET MVC. (more)

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Run Multiple Tasks in a Windows Service

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Run multiple tasks in a single WindowsService, and let the base library do all of the work setup and tear down for you. The WindowsServiceTasks NuGet package is simple, flexible, and extremely light weight. (more)

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Running a Windows Service as a Console App

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tdupont 108 days, 17 hours, 45 minutes ago

How do you test windows services? You could install your service into windows and then attach your debugger to it's process, but that is a lot of work. Why not just run your service as a console application? Then you can test it by just pressing play in Visual Studio! (more)

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Cache Repository for MVC

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tdupont 121 days, 14 hours, 46 minutes ago

CacheRepository is generic, thread safe, and it's features include lazy loaded GetOrSet methods, single set locking, configurable expiration enums, transparent cache key management by type, and more. The CacheRepository library can be implemented by any caching system that you choose, but comes with a web implementation that leverages System.Web.Caching.Cache (more)

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Form Extensions for Selenium 2.0 (WebDriver)

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tdupont 121 days, 14 hours, 54 minutes ago

These are a series of extension methods for WebElements in WebDriver. These helpers (IsSelected, IsChecked, SetChecked, GetOptionByValue) make it easier to work with form data in Selenium 2.0. (more)

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jQuery Refresh Page Extension

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tdupont 169 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes ago

There are three scenarios when a web page refreshes: Honors your cache, verifies your cache, or ignores your cache. For a simple page refresh you want your webpage to generate as few server requests as possible. There any many ways to refresh a page in JavaScript, however they can all have different and sometimes undesirable results. (more)

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CookieContainer for HttpWebRequest

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tdupont 169 days, 19 hours, 43 minutes ago

Are you making a series of HttpWebRequests where you need to persist cookies? For example, perhaps you are experiencing an infinite series of authentication hops. Don't worry, this is very easy to resolve by using the System.Net.CookieContainer class. (more)

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xUnit Visual Studio Integration

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tdupont 213 days, 15 hours, 18 minutes ago

Good news, everyone! It is actually very easy to get xUnit completely integrated with Visual Studio. You only need to install two plugins: 1) xUnit Test Runner Extension, and 2) xUnit Contrib Plugin (more)

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Why You Should Not Estimate in Hours or Days

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martinig 246 days, 23 hours, 34 minutes ago

Developers don’t like to provide time estimates for implementing a software feature. Management, on the other hand, has a legitimate need for project management estimates. This article explains how the Scrum Agile Project Management framework provides a solution to this conflict. (more)

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How to Unlock a Configuration Section from IIS Manager

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tdupont 239 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes ago

HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error: This configuration section cannot be used at this path. This happens when the section is locked at a parent level. ...did you know that you can unlock configuration sections from IIS Manager? It's easy! (more)

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Func Injection in Unity

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tdupont 266 days, 9 hours, 27 minutes ago

If you are using LinqToSql and dependency injection, then you have probably created a factory with which you create DataContexts. But what if you could just let your IOC Container do that work for you? You can! If you are using Unity then you can inject a Func (more)

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Running WebDrivers in Parallel

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tdupont 288 days, 8 hours, 23 minutes ago

A WebDriver is not thread safe, but it is not required to be a singleton either. If you instantiate multiple drivers, they can all be run at the same time. If you cast a series of drivers into a collection of the IWebDriver interface, and then throw that into a Parallel ForEach, you have yourself one fun toy to play with! (more)

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Batched Future Queries for LinqToSql, available via NuGet

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tdupont 295 days, 9 hours, 41 minutes ago

Future queries are an unobtrusive and easy to use way of batching database queries into a lazy loaded data structures. Future queries were originally a feature of NHibernate, and have since been ported to other ORMs. To batch queries together, simply call the ToFuture extension method on your IQueryables, this will return a Lazy collection of entities. The first time that one of the Lazy collections is accessed, all of the pending queries will be batched and executed together. (more)

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Lazy Unity Injection

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One way to trim a deep or expensive dependency tree is to inject Lazy types of your services. Lazy injection will prevent an optional resource from being instantiated until it is actually needed; this can often be a crucial performance optimization. (more)

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tdupont

How to Test RavenDB Indexes

Alphanumeric Lucene Analyzer for RavenDB

Understanding .NET Garbage Collection

SQL Server NOLOCK Hint

MVC JSON Model Binder Attribute

.NET String Extensions: Split Qualified

Report Unhandled Errors from JavaScript

Run Multiple Tasks in a Windows Service

Running a Windows Service as a Console App

Cache Repository for MVC

Form Extensions for Selenium 2.0 (WebDriver)

jQuery Refresh Page Extension

CookieContainer for HttpWebRequest

xUnit Visual Studio Integration

Why You Should Not Estimate in Hours or Days

How to Unlock a Configuration Section from IIS Manager

Func Injection in Unity

Running WebDrivers in Parallel

Batched Future Queries for LinqToSql, available via NuGet

Lazy Unity Injection

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