Coding in .NET !

Choose the best WCF Binding

Morgan — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:18:02 +0000

A really quick post just to share a MSDN page I found after some research. I see a lot of questions on StackOverflow about what type of WCF binding is the best. Of course there is no quick answer. You will choose your WCF binding for feature, performance, compatbility and transport type reasons … And [...]

Book Review : “The Clean Coder” by Robert C. Martin

Morgan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:24:31 +0000

I love books. And particularly books which talk about my job and one of my favorite activities: Development. In the “Book” section of this blog, you will find some books I really loved. Today, I’d like to talk about a book I highly recommend to every developer. “The Clean Coder : A Code of Conduct for Professional [...]

Everything you wanted to know about Unit Testing in .NET

Morgan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:31:57 +0000

Part One – Questions about Unit Test What is a unit test? In theory … “Unit testing is a method by which individual units of source code are tested to determine if they are fit for use. A unit is the smallest testable part of an application. Wikipedia“ When you write code, you can write a bug. Even if [...]

ASP.NET MVC4 : Create a Mobile Application

Morgan — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:21:48 +0000

If you’re not using (yet) ASP.NET MVC4 (Preview), please read this post and install MVC4. In this post, I will show you three new functionalities brought by MVC4 for mobile websites. The mobile Application Template The View Switcher The Display mode by Browser type Smartphone and tablet are able to read websites not optimized for tiny [...]

Microsoft BUILD : Windows 8, Visual Studio 11 and ASP.NET MVC4

Morgan — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 08:02:12 +0000

Last week, Microsoft has presented Windows 8 during the BUILD event,. I will not explain all the new functionalities presented in the event. A lot of people and website have published articles about Windows 8.You can watch a lot of video about Windows 8 on the Channel9 website You can watch a lot of video [...]

MVC 3 – Organize your partial views

Morgan — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:57:46 +0000

MVC 3 is amazing. I love how it’s working and how developpers are able to enhance its behavior. When you’re building an ASP.NET MVC3 project, you work with views. To organize and share view’s part, you can use partial view. (Or Editor Template but it’s not today’s subject). Often, partial’s views are placed into the [...]

Clean Code by Robert C.Martin : Exercice in C#

Morgan — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:11:59 +0000

Few weeks ago, I posted about Clean and Meaning code. One of my favorite programming book is “Clean Code – A Handbook of Agile Sofware Craftsmanship” by Robert C.Martin (or “Uncle Bob”). In case you didn’t heard about him, it’s the CEO of Object Mentor and he initiated a group that created Agile software development. You [...]

MVC 3 and Extension method : How to bind an Enum to a DropDownList

Morgan — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:07:00 +0000

ASP.NET MVC 3 is delivered with a lot of « Helpers ». These methods help the developer to improve his productivity and the quality of his Html code. If you don’t know yet the MVC Html Helper, you can read the MSDN page about HtmlHelper or read this article with plenty of examples. Before reading this [...]

ASP.NET MVC 3 – How to use EditorTemplates

Morgan — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:54:57 +0000

There are a lot of fabulous functionalities in ASP.NET MVC. One of my favorite is the EditorTemplates. With these templates, it is possible to say “Okay, I’m gonna make an html template for this type of object and when I want to display this type, Razor will uses my template”. WPF and Silverlight Developers already [...]

Code smells: How to produce clean and meaning code

Morgan — Sun, 08 May 2011 11:09:27 +0000

Today, I would like to start a new series of article about one field I appreciate a lot and which concerns (I hope that) all developers: Clean and meaning code. Did you ever see a piece of code and said “Hum there is a problem here … I can’t put a word on it but [...]