Category Archives: C#

Mocking HtmlHelper in ASP.NET MVC RC1 using Moq

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Håvard

For those of you trying to mock HtmlHelper, but finding it difficult, here’s a mock that works in ASP.NET MVC RC1.

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Why cripple the .NET RSA implementation?

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Håvard

I just found out that RSACryptoServiceProvider, the RSA implementation in .NET, does not allow you to use a private key to encrypt data. I’m no cryptographic expert, but I do know how asymmetric key algorithms like RSA work, and that … Continue reading →

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Strongly typed data binding in Windows Forms

Posted on September 28, 2008 by Håvard

Windows Forms data binding is a great tool for model-view-style applications, where the connection between the model and its view is easily declared. However, data binding is also an error-prone and tedious process with no IntelliSense support where properties are … Continue reading →

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Extension methods for copying or cloning objects

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Håvard

C# 3.0 includes a new feature known as extension methods, and fiddling with it triggered the idea of creating a mechanism for copying or cloning (virtually) any .NET object or graph of objects. The manifestation of that idea has become … Continue reading →

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