Mocking DependencyResolver

This may be known to some of you, but I’d never had to do this before, so I thought I’d share. I had some MVC 4 code that explicitly calls the System DependencyResolver (the application uses Unity for dependency injection) to retrieve a service: https://gist.github.com/williamhallatt/751e26ee1ed64b51ea1648eff776c56a Mocking (in this case) the ISomeOtherService is obviously a trivial matter … Continue reading Mocking DependencyResolver →

Adding Docker Terminal to cmder on Windows

I've recently started playing with Docker on Windows 10 and, as an avid supporter of the cmder console emulator, I obviously prefer having all my console options in one place. A couple of things to note before we start: My Docker installation directory is I go under the assumption that you already have git for Windows installed somewhere on … Continue reading Adding Docker Terminal to cmder on Windows →

Mocking multipart/form-data HttpRequestMessage for testing ASP.NET ApiController

I recently had a problem where I needed to unit test an ApiController action that read data off of the controller’s request object, in other words, something that looks like this: https://gist.github.com/williamhallatt/c66ace1c849d9b52696b5f121481f1ad The real-world action receives a multipart/form-data request (a form), which contains an uploaded file as one of its fields. Reading the form fields and … Continue reading Mocking multipart/form-data HttpRequestMessage for testing ASP.NET ApiController →

Copying non-resource files with QMake for easier debugging

When it comes to Qt Quick and QML based apps, the standard seems to be to compile all QML and, e.g., image files into a Qt Resource (qrc) file. This works great (and not just for Qt Quick apps), but what if you need to be able to swap out, e.g. .png's without recompiling? I … Continue reading Copying non-resource files with QMake for easier debugging →

Uncrustify, Windows Shell Script and Visual Studio Build Events

If you're here, you probably know this already, but Uncrustify is a "code beautifier" with 454 configurable options at the time of writing (in short, you can pretty much set up any any code style convention you can imagine). Since I am a massive supporter of "anything that can be automated should be automated" I decided … Continue reading Uncrustify, Windows Shell Script and Visual Studio Build Events →