Mocking expected behaviour of SQL functions for Unit Testing with SQLite

While unit testing, I came across a method in an SQL repository class that was using a raw SQL query, and along with that, SQL Server’s newid() function. Since the complicated reason behind this decision was out of scope, I had to find a way to unit test that method…

SQLite was -of course- the first approach, but any attempt to actually test the method would nevertheless fail with the exception Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteException: 'SQLite Error 1: 'no such function: newid'.'.

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Simple website stress tool with C# and Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool

To be honest, I got bored trying to remember all switches and combinations of Apache’s benchmarking tool! Since I use it sort of rarely, I just wrapped it in a convenient -for me at least- app that I can use without having to remember or read anything!

This is my simple implementation of a website stress tool that uses Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool to get results for any request. Just follow the link for my github account, download, build, and use 🙂

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ASP.NET MVC 5 with Razor Kendo UI: Dynamic Grid Creation – Columns, Ordering, Grouping and Paging

The requirements were simple! A grid that will load a whatever query, grouped by whatever columns, with filters enabled, paging and everything. Easy task with ASP.NET Telerik grids but not easy at all with Kendo UI!

Since we can’t have a ViewModel or Model for the grid (we don’t know what columns a whatever query has!), I came up with a rather different ViewModel that holds descriptions for columns, groups etc…:

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ASP.NET MVC 5: Custom AuthorizeAttribute for custom authentication

In a previous post I wrote about how you can should protect your web app from human errors made by developers, by enforcing authentication by default.

Since adding the AuthorizeAttribute to every action involves global filters, we can use that to add our own custom authentication, by inheriting AuthorizeAttributeand overriding the AuthorizeCore and HandleUnauthorizeRequest methods.

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