Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC

In this tip, I show you how you can create a Visual Studio 2008 macro that creates a new MVC controller, view folder, and controller unit test with a single command.

In this tip, I demonstrate how you can pass browser cookies and HTTP server variables to controller action methods in the same way as you can pass form and query string parameters.

In this tip, you learn how to create and use templates in the MVC framework that you can use to display database data. I show you how to create a new MVC Helper method named the RenderTemplate() method.

In this tip, I demonstrate how you can create unit tests for the routes in your ASP.NET MVC applications. I show how to test whether a URL is being mapped to the right controller, controller action, and action parameters.

In this tip, I show you how to test ASP.NET intrinsics when building unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC application. I show you how to create a standard set of fake objects that enables you to fake the current user, the current user roles, the request parameters, session state, and cookies.

The purpose of this blog entry is to provide you with an introduction to the xUnit.net unit testing framework, the newest unit testing framework for the .NET framework. I want to demonstrate how you can use the xUnit.net framework when practicing test-driven development. In particular, I focus on using xUnit.net when building an ASP.NET MVC application.

In this tip, I recommend that you use standard names for your controller actions in order to make your code more transparent to other developers.

In this tip, I explain how hackers can steal sensitive information from an ASP.NET MVC website by manipulating URLs. I also discuss how you can build unit tests to prevent this type of attack.