Yeah, it’s been more than a week already, but it is still worth mentioning. Our new site is up! We’re doing it like in our product – incrementally. So we’re adding pages on a weekly basis. So expect more pages to display the new look, and more information. For example, we have our ASP.Net page, …
Monthly Archive: March 2009
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Mar
29
Virtual Tech-Days Session: TDD with Typemock Isolator
On April 1st Microsoft is hosting a 24 hour event of technology learning. If you’re reading this blog you might be interested to listen to one specific session called "Starting TDD with Mock objects" presented by yours truly. So if you’re new to TDD or want to learn about Isolator (or both) you can listen …
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Mar
29
How to check Exception message using MS Test
In Typemock we use both NUnit and MSTest to run our unit tests. This practice enables us to check that Isolator works fine on both unit testing framework. Most of NUnit attributes can be translated fully into MSTest attributes (and vise-versa) there is one attribute we tend to use that works differently in MSTest – …
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Mar
25
Support Problems
We’ve been having an issue with the support emails server stopping communication in the past couple of days. The problem is fixed but we’d like to apologize to all the customers who’ve not gotten a support reply in the past two days. We’re catching up on the emails right now, so you should be getting …
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Mar
23
Typemock Isolator 5.3 Is Out!
Time has come for another Isolator release – this time we’ve put a lot of effort into providing features and bug fixes requested by many of you – hope you like it! The new version is available on our download page. Major features: Exact Argument Matching You now have the power to provide a fake …
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Mar
18
Why You Need an Isolation Framework
This brought me back about 4 years ago, when I was hand-writing mocks. I knew there were tools out there for dynamic mocking, but I figured, hey, I can write these myself, I have full control, I wouldn’t need to learn another framework. And I wasted time and money on it. Case in point. If …
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Mar
17
ReSharper 4.5 Beta
One of the reasons I heard not to use JetBrains ReSharper is its performance overhead. As a developer there is nothing more frustrating then having Visual Studio freeze and chock during coding. JetBrains decided to address this problem and did some work recently released ReSharper 4.5 Beta version. If you never tried ReSharper or tried …
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Mar
17
Quality Is Dead. Resuscitate It. II
James Bach came back with the second post of his "Quality is Dead" series. This time he’s talking about the myth of quality: That it can be built into the product by following practices. He’s discussing the problems with how we perceive quality, and finally gives his own view: "A product is a dynamic arrangement, …
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Mar
16
New site pages: ASP.NET, Silverlight Unit Testing
We have uploaded 3 new Learn pages to our site, 2 pages for ASP.NET unit testing: an ASP.NET page and an ASP.NET Article. And a page for Silverlight unit testing with SilverUnit. A big thanks goes to Artem Smirnov, creator of Ivonna, for writing the ASP.NET unit testing article. Moranmarketing department
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Mar
14
Using TestDriven.NET and Tyepmock Isolator on 64bit machine
In a previous blog post we suggested a workaround for users who run into trouble running TestDriven.NET with the Isolator on 64 bit machines. I want to clear up few things that can be misunderstood from that post: The problem occurs on Vista / Server 2008 OS. This looks like a problem is in the …
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