A friend of mine who is involved in a local start-up here in MPLS was talking to me about how his start up is building their web api. Their start-up is a mobile application that has a back end data store that they’re communicate with via a REST-esque API build using ASP.NET MVC, hosted on…
Tag Archive: MVC
Empty Folders: A git svn gotcha
I’ve been using git-svn for about 6 months at one particular client without any major issues (we’ve our fair share of small nuances here and there though). However, I did run into a weird problem recently.
A Poll: Web Api Calls
A couple of days ago I threw out a poll on twitter to see what people thought of a particular question I had in mind. Here it is: What I’m after is pretty simple … how should one handle exceptional cases in Web Api development. Namily JSON and XML. My take on it is pretty…
Desert Code Camp Tomorrow!
I’ll be presenting “Introduction to Android Development” and “ASP.NET MVC2 with the Spark View Engine”. Sign up for yopur sessions here: http://www.desertcodecamp.com If you’re in the area, I hope to see ya there!
MVC: Unit Testing Action Filters
Certain parts of ASP.NET MVC can be a real pain to test. Namely Model Binders, Action Filters and anything that relies on some magic “Context” that seems to derive from HttpContext, ControllerContext, RequestContext, etc. Below, I’ve outlined how I’ve unit tested a Action Filter. You could extrapolate some of this code into a base Test…
