James Broome

This is part 1 in a series of posts on using Behaviour Driven Development to build and test your MVC controllers. The full series is as follows:

Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 1: The HomeController
Asp.Net MVC Controllers + BDD = The perfect match? Part 2: Log On and Off with the [...]

One of the benefits of Asp.Net MVC is that it allows you to write easily testable code. One thing that has always been notoriously difficult to test is the HttpContext object and its associated values – the Request and Response etc. This is why I didn’t like it when dependencies on HttpContext started to creep [...]

One of the clear advantages of using the MVC pattern is that it encourages separation of concerns – it doesn’t enforce it by any means, but following the pattern results in a nice clean, maintainable, flexible solution. The architectural advantages of this are documented everywhere, but I also believe that it aids separation of concerns [...]

My current project requires both e-commerce and content management features at the core of its solution. Whilst this would seem to be a fairly obvious and common requirement, the current offerings in the .Net world seem to be lacking when you try to consider both requirements. Sure, there are some great .Net CMS tools (Umbraco [...]