Search Engine Optimization guides, recommends to have one version of a URL of the same content. Search engines may pickup www and non-www versions of URL as 2 separate URLs, i.e. http://xyz.com/page1 may be considered different to http://www.xyz.com/page1. It is a good idea to pick on of these [...]

Recently I have started playing with the Moq (pronounced "Mock-you" or just "Mock") a Mocking Library for .NET Developers, that takes full advantage of .NET 3.5 (i.e. Linq expression trees) and C# 3.0 features. Here in this post I will discuss how I have used the TryUpdateModel method in [...]

Routing Library resides in the System.Web.Routing Namespace of the .NET Framework 3.5, which provides us the flexibility to use URLs that has no mapping to a physical file. This means ASP.NET MVC framework provides flexible URL mapping engine and enables us to write SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly URLs [...]

I normally do not use DataSet and prefer Objects instead generated by the ORM frameworks, but recently I had to produce a ASP.NET page that displayed a list of records from multiple DataTables. Lets look at a similar example.

Lets assume we consume this DataSet which has two DataTables [...]

All our ASP.NET pages must derive from System.Web.UI.Page class, but we can take the advantage of inheritance and create a Custom Base Class to manage Security, Session, Error Handling and other repetitive custom codes elegantly. We normally go and create a custom base class that derives from System.Web.UI.Page class which [...]

Now Microsoft Chart controls Add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 can be used for charting needs.

Prerequisite: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.

For sample Environment for Microsoft Chart Controls check here. The sample [...]

Lets say we want to use reflection to generate a mock test case for this following Nested Class ClientAddress.

When we load an assembly from a disk dynamically, we can use GetType to look up a type defined in the assembly.[...]

Problem
I was facing the following Exception when I was programmatically assigning Selected Value of a DropDownList with the following piece of code.

ListItem item = DropDownListTest.Items.FindByValue("Test");
  if (item != null)
     item.Selected = true;

Exception

Cannot have multiple items selected in a DropDownList.

Description: An unhandled [...]

Filling up Mock objects with random data is possibly one of the most time consuming and boring chapter of writing test cases. Let say we have the following classes and we want to write some mock objects.

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