Mocking HtmlHelper in ASP.NET MVC RC1 using Moq
For those of you trying to mock HtmlHelper, but finding it difficult, here’s a mock that works in ASP.NET MVC RC1.
Object-Relational Mappings Considered Harmful
Creating an Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) has become the de facto way of handling persistence in the object-oriented programming paradigm. Almost all systems require some form of persistent state, and relational databases have become the de facto place to put that state. Relational databases are proven, scale well, and organize data in a tabular manner suitable for many of the real world problems that we try to solve, so they are an obvious choice. Choosing them, however, means we have a new problem at our hands, known as the object-relational impedance mismatch.
LINQ vs Loop – A performance test
I just installed Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 to see what the future holds for C#. The addition of LINQ has brought a variety of query keywords to the language. “Anything” can be queried; SQL databases (naturally), XML documents, and regular collections. Custom queryable objects can also be created by implementing IQueryable. Sadly, like every abstraction, these goodies all come at a cost. The question is how much?
