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TDD Step by Step, Part 2: The Database

Welcome to part two of our series on building a Windows application using test-driven development (TDD). In the previous article we drove the design of our entity classes and data access layer by means of unit tests. The unit tests acted more as specifications...

Published 11-24-2008 11:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, database, agile practices, development tools, unit testing
TDD Step by Step, Part 1

In a hot discussion thread in msforums.ph about the value of unit testing and adopting test-driven development (TDD), a suggestion was made to illustrate how TDD is used in creating a simple application, specifically Keith's October code challenge...

Published 11-24-2008 8:37 AM by cruizer

Filed under: DotNET, TDD, C#, .NET, code, agile practices, unit testing
Data Access with LINQ

I discussed LINQ (LINQ to objects, XML, then SQL) during the Microsoft TechFEST event here in Singapore, and the slides are here . You can download the sample code as well.

Published 11-04-2008 7:25 AM by cruizer

Filed under: .NET, code, presentation, LINQ, data, access
WCF: Shifting from HTTP to TCP

We've decided to shift our project's WCF services from HTTP to TCP. Why? We've got a few reasons: Performance is important. We all know the TCP-based protocol (used by NetTcpBinding) is faster and has lower latency than the HTTP-based protocol...

Published 11-01-2008 4:23 PM by cruizer