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Did you ever wanted to mock a sealed class or non-virtual methods? Unless you are using TypeMock you are in for some coding as there is no easy way to mock them just like that (I am fiddling with MOQ but AFAIK no mock framework is capable of mocking sealed classes with exception of TypeMock). The general pattern I see is to create a wrapper class ...

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Sahil ''SharePoint dude'' Malik will be doing advanced SharePoint 2007 training in Norway. Yep, that's the same Sahil that blogs like mad about SharePoint. So if you are into SharePoint development you are having a great opportunity to learn from the expert.

My Entity Framework presentation from NTKonferenca 2008.

Developer Express, my favorite 3rd party .net component vendor, has just made its first public step into Windows Presentation Foundation world. They released a beta version of their charting product DXCharts for WPF (hey, where are those Xtra, Xpress, Express prefixes - ''DX for WPF'', shhh, boring ;-)). Anyway, everything is as one would expected ...

If you use Developer Express ASPxGridView within MS Ajax' UpdatePanel (ASPxGridView.EnableCallBacks="False") you should be aware that you should perform DataBind() method within OnInit method (Init event). Otherwise editing just won't work, or better, it works, just the modifications aren't persisted. It took me some time to ...

asp.netPRO started voting process for asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards 2008 as they do every year. And all of the 3rd party component vendors are asking for your vote, as usual. Nothing wrong there. But there are two things that I noticed during my voting. First, immediately on the top of first page, I saw this product: This refactor tool was ...

Looks like telerik is going to support Mono. This news is certainly interesting for Mono guys as it might give wings to Mono. Which is a good thing, indeed. However, the support (if it is going to happen) will probably be limited to asp.net components - they don't even mention WinForms at this point. I assume that running WinForms controls on ...

As we all know, an open connection to database server might drop for a reason or another whenever. And a dead connection is one of the reasons that our command against database server might not succeed - instead we'll get an exception. I mean, you can't know in advance if the command will succeed and connection will hold for the lifetime of the ...

As a (late) new year gift I've removed annoying expiration restriction from my dataset debugger visualizer. Find the 0.9.12 update here. I've also rebuilt it for Visual Studio 2008 version which will be the only one supported from now on. Find the 0.9.12 version for 2008 here. Read more about Righthand Dataset Debugger Visualizer.