During these days, I’ve been wondering a lot about the Software Engineer role. According to Wikipedia “A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to the design, development, maintenance, testing, and evaluation of computer software“. This role is relatively young, compared to more ancient ones like Architects or Mechanical Engineers …
In this article I’ll quickly show you an easy way to test a web application, written in any language you like, using .NET Core and Selenium. With “testing the application” I mean to simulate an interaction with the website just like a human user would do. This way it is possible to automatically replicate almost …
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What’s AutoMapper AutoMapper is a powerful tool for .NET developers used for object mapping, created by Jimmy Bogard. It is used to map different objects (classes or structs in our case) without having to manually copy each object’s member one by one. How many times have you found yourself in this situation: What if your …
WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) is a set of libraries relying on the .NET Framework (also available from .NET Core 3) which allows you to build graphical desktop applications. On December 2018, Microsoft announced releasing WPF as open source project on GitHub. File Dialog When building desktop applications, you’ll likely find yourself in the need of asking the …
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In this tutorial I will show you how to integrate one of the most complete and easy to use authentication system in your aspnet core web application. This is called ASP.NET Identity Core and it allows your application to handle user identification and management almost out of the box. Prerequisites This tutorial is for anyone …
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In the last couple of years, it happened quite often that I had to build a web application to serve as a backoffice administration panel. So I took a fresh asp.net core application plus a static admin template and I made them working together with a database connection, a bunch of models/controllers and some JavaScript. …
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Intro Dependency injection is a programming technique where an object (the client) gets a dependency (i.e. a service) supplied by another object (the injector). This way the client delegates the “burden” of knowing how to implement a certain service to another class, actually decoupling itself from the service. Dependency Injection is also a design pattern …
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Sometimes we find ourselves in the need of handling various types of objects (or entities) while using Entity Framework as ORM for our projects. The situation can be a bit more struggling when the project is not big enough to justify the use of a Repository Pattern but it’s big enough to cause lots of …
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In the previous article we’ve seen how to use the [Theory] attribute with [InlineData], which allow us to have static elements to feed our tests methods. This particular approach can bring lots of noise inside our code, especially when dealing with 10 or more test methods in the same class. In this article we’ll see how to use [ClassData] and [MemberData] attributes …
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In the last article we introduced xUnit.net and talked about the very basic way to write tests with the [Fact] attribute. Today will we’ll add some spicy to our tests with the [Theory] attribute. The [Theory] attribute allows you to dynamically pass a set of data to your test method and to execute a test for every given set. This way …
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