I just got a license for NDepend to get an opportunity to test it with VS 2019 Community. My first impression is positive. The intro video is quite useful to know how to start as first what I was trying to do after installation is to look after option in SLN context menu to run …
Category: .NET
Fluent Assertions in unit tests
As a continouation of the article about unit test frameworks I would like to introduce Fluent Assertions. This framework simplifies testing by BDD style syntax. Let’s start from basic assertion. As you noticed, first is going the result, then the keyword (or rather extension method) Should() and at the end the condition (so in case …
.NET unit test frameworks comparison
In .NET we have 3 dominant unit test frameworks: MS Test (v2) NUnit (3.x) xUnit (2.x) First one comes with Visual Studio, two other requires additional components installation. Initialize First difference we will find in initialization approach. In MS Test there several initialization available (by attributes): AssemblyInitialize, ClassInitialize and TestInitialize. The disadvantage is that initialization …
Install .NET Core on Debian Linux
Microsoft prepared quite good instruction how to install dotnet runtime on Linux. I’ve been interested in Debian distro. So I went pretty smooth through the first part of the manual (system setup). However installing dotnet I had constinously an error that package cannot be found. First comment: the package name has been changed and it …
How to get iPhone X front camera depth data in Xamarin iOS?
How to get iPhone X front camera depth data in Xamarin iOS? This question has been raised in many places across the web. However I did not found any good description of this problem including Apple site. They have only quite generic description of required classes without tutorial. As one of the first step, we …
Pro .NET Memory Management For Better Code, Performance, and Scalability
Pro .NET Memory Management For Better Code, Performance, and Scalability by Konrad Kokosa is the best technical book I’ve ever read. It is very deep dive into .NET memory management. For me, the only one missing part was Mono description. Except that, the book is awsome. It describes history of memory management, helpful tools, memory …
Xamarin.iOS – Dropbox API v2 integration tips
Xamarin.iOS is not very popular platform. As shows Dropbox, for their API v2 they even do not provide even good SDK (in .NET, only for web based). If we consider any mobile development in Xamarin, the best examples which I found were dedicated to Windows Phone 8.1 and Xamarin.Android, so completly different approach. For iOS …
AWS Cognito – Identity Pool usage in .NET Core
Some time ago I had to implement authorization and authentication for REST (.NET Core 2.1, the latest stable nuget package version is 2.1.3) web service using JWT tokens (bearer) using AWS Cognito Identity Pools. It was pretty hard to find the updated tutorials or materials (even on AWS most of the data is about old …
Xamarin Live Player
Today I started playing with Xamarin Live Player. This tool allows to see the Xamarin.Forms live on device while you designing UI. It has beta version available on Test Flight. You need to register to get access to it. Unfortunately first experience was bad. I was waiting for a longer while to get information from …
Flurl.Http – HTTP unit testable client for .NET
So far the first choice of many people was RestSharp. Since few months new player is getting a piece of market – Flurl. In this post I would like to introduce this library, show how to use with .NET Core 2.0 and unit test the code. Code! Let’s start coding part with getting it – …