In my last post I am going to cover the last two topics I set out to address. The first topic is UI testing. What unit test frameworks lack sometime is the actually UI testing. What I mean by that is for example, click on a button, then see what happens. In case of Silverlight, …
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In this post I will explore ability to mock various Silverlight classes in order to enable mocking in your unit tests. There is a variety of mocking frameworks available, but I will pick one for my testing – Moq. You can download the framework here, Once this is done, I need to add some references …
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In this post I will describe how to create asynchronous unit tests for Silverlight applications. First of all, I’d like to point out that any communication with a server component in Silverlight must be asynchronous. Reason being is that if communication was synchronous and the remote service was not responding, browser which host Silverlight application …
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I am starting a short series of posts on unit testing of Silverlight applications. I will be using the following set of technologies. Microsoft Silverlight Unit testing framework that ships with Silverlight tool kit Moq – mocking framework that supports Silverlight 4 StatLight – unit testing automation framework that will allow for unattended / automated …
Today I am continuing exploring WCF RIA Services. I am going to discuss validation in RIA Services. Any business application needs to validate user input. I am going to start with a simple case. In my sample application a user can enter a company information. I would like to setup RIA Services to force the …
In this post I will cover the update process. I am going to recap where I left off in the last post on RIA Services. The last step was to retrieved based on ID from a read only company object. Once this object is obtained in the VIewModel, we can create a screen to edit …
I am going to continue exploring the topic of RIA services and Silverlight. I thought I was going to get into updates in this post, but there are a few topics I would like to cover first. I am going to try to get to updates in the next post. Today, I am going to …
I know many posts have been written on this subject by many people, but I am writing this one mostly for myself. I find it very useful to type my thoughts on any subject and create a sample project to help me commit more information to memory. So, here it goes. What you need to …