Introduction to Unit Testing Unit Testing The primary goal of unit testing is to take the smallest piece of testable software in the application, isolate it from the remainder of the code, and determine whether it behaves exactly as you expect under various conditions. Benefits Unit testing has proven its value in that a large […]
How to automate trimming strings in Entity Framework
May 19, 2016 by 2 Comments
When working with legacy data where the data being loaded into SQL server tables contains trailing spaces, the trailing spaces will remain in the fields regardless of whether the fields are varchar This poses problems when doing compares or extracting data to files as you may not get the results you are looking for. One […]
Application Configuration Settings
September 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
One of the most common ways to store application setting is in the config file. Below I will show examples of how to store configurations and their retrieval. AppSettings and ConnectionString Sections Include the appSettings and/or connectionStrings sections in .config file for retrieval from your application. <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <configuration> <appSettings> <add key=”MySampleKey” value=”Sample value” /> […]
Global Data
June 14, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Global data is accessible anywhere in a program. Using global data is riskier than using local data. Here are some common problems with using Global Data: Problems with Global Data Unexpected changes to global data. Since global data can be accessed anywhere, it can also be changed anywhere without the intent of doing so. Cannot concentrate on […]
