Service Locator: Integrating Unity and Mock Objects Testing in your Application Download Sample Code Wanted to cover an issue I ran into in a couple of projects when using Unity for resolving my interface implementations and Mock Objects for testing. First, I’m assuming you have some idea of what Unity and Mock Objects are but for those who may be a bit fuzzy I’ll briefly explain: Unity is a Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control Container, it’s very powerful and is capable of much more than...

ORM made easy with Linq to SQL and Extension Methods Download Sample Code Few things get developers as passionate, angry, or roused as ORM (Object Relational Mapping) strategies, short of dissing Mountain Dew. This is probably because there are so many ways to do it and doing it wrong can result in big, big headaches. Nevertheless, this is an area that is really pretty straight forward. I’ve got some stuff over here that is shaped one way and some stuff over there that looks (maybe very) different,...