A Blog About Random Computer Subjects
Introduction There are a lot of articles on how to use Moq, but I’m going to bring out my die roller game example to show how to use Moq to roll a sequence of predetermined results. I’m also going to do this using .Net Core. The Setup My sample program is a game. The game … Read moreUnit Testing with Moq
Summary I’ve done quite a few posts on unit testing in the past. I keep a list of subjects that I would like to blog about so I have a ready list to choose from. My list of unit testing subjects is getting large and it’s time to clear the spindle. So in this post … Read moreDependency Injection and IOC Containers
Summary The Stack Exchange Redis client for C# is fast and reliable. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to find quality information on the details of this client. In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate how to setup a Redis connection in C# using the Stack Exchange Redis client. This connection technique will reuse connections instead of … Read moreStack Exchange Redis Connection Pooling
Summary Let’s do something different. I’m going to install the latest version of MySQL, which is version 5.7, which is advertised to be 3x faster. I’m going to compare some basic database operations between the 32 bit version of MySQL, with the 64 bit version of Microsoft SQL Server 2014 (unfortunately, the MySQL msi is … Read moreMySQL
Summary In this blog post I’m going to demonstrate how to generate an error that is difficult to find. The Error The error message that I’m going to show can be caused by a lot of different things. The cause of this error will be the use of an “&” symbol inside the app.config file. … Read moreSide by Side Error
Summary In this blog post I’m going to talk about some tricky problems with serializing and deserializing data. In particular, I’m going to demonstrate a problem with the BinaryFormatter used in C# to turn an object into a byte array of data. Using the BinaryFormatter Serializer If you are serializing an object inside your project … Read moreSerializing Data
Summary In previous programming projects, I have used the ISessionStateItemCollection object to override the session state collection object built into HttpContext.Current. In this blog post I’m going to demo a bug in Microsoft’s sample code used to show how to create a custom SessionStateItemCollection. Where to Find the Sample Code Microsoft provides a lot of … Read moreISessionStateItemCollection interface
Summary In one of my previous posts (See: Mocking HttpContext), I created a HttpContext factory and a mocked HttpContext object that can be used to simulate the HttpContext.Current object used by methods under a unit test. In this post, I’m going to add the Session capabilities to this object so you can unit test your … Read moreMocking HttpContext – Adding Sessions
Summary In my last post, I talked about how to override the id generator of the HttpContext.Current.Session. In this post I’m going to show how to override the methods that affect the cookie itself. The ISessionIDManager Interface In order to get at the methods required to manipulate the cookie, you’ll need to implement the ISessionIDManager … Read moreCreating Your Own Custom Session ID (Part 2)
Summary In this blog post I’m going to talk about the ID manager used by the .Net HttpContext.Current.Session and how to customize the ID that is generated to create a more secure ID. Session ID The session ID that is created when you use the Session object is contained in a cookie named ASP.NET_SessionId by … Read moreCreating Your Own Custom Session ID