The Devlineator

So I found a problem that the project I am working on had a bunch of nUnit tests that needed converted to MSTest and I really didn’t want to do a find replace on all the keywords so I did the following.

using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using TestFixture = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestClassAttribute;
using Test = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestMethodAttribute;
using TearDown = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestCleanupAttribute;
using SetUp = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.TestInitializeAttribute;
using TestFixtureTearDown = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.ClassCleanupAttribute;
using TestFixtureSetUp = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.ClassInitializeAttribute;
using Explicit = Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.IgnoreAttribute;

Then you just paste this into the using of your test file, and remove your nUnit references. Bob’s your uncle converted.

Productivity, Testing unit tests, nunit, mstest

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Directions:

Here is the Bing Map

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Look Forward to seeing you there.

Community

When running Resharper against legacy code I have found that I would like to turn off code analysis for certain files, folders, or code blocks so I went hunting in Resharper options land and found the nugget that I was hunting for.

Open Resharper Options:

Then go to Code Inspection Settings ?>

If you add a Generated Code Region Resharper will ignore everything in that region. You can name it something subtle like ?Resharper Ignore this please? like so.

You also have that advanced button that allows you to add entire files and folders to be skipped.

Enjoy the increased performance of Resharper with all your legacy code.

Productivity, Resharper resharper

I have come across something in the project that I am working on that is weird. Resharper marks a using directive as unused because we use it through reflection. When we do a clean up it is removed. So I went hunting and found that you can tell Resharper to never removed certain namespaces. You can also tell it to add certain namespaces by default.

Open your Resharper Options Menu.

Then go to language ?> Namespace Import

Just click add on the should not be removed for the ones you don?t want deleted and add on the right for the ones that you want to add by default.

Enjoy.

Productivity, Resharper

When serializing object to a client through WCF you often have reference objects that are needing to be serialized. This becomes a problem if the 
reference parent and reference child are both of the same type. This causes 
WCF to barf over cyclic references. There are two fixes. If you are using 
.NET 3.5 or previous you can do this (Thanks to Chabster):

namespace MetroServer.Infrastructure
{
    [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Interface | AttributeTargets.Method)]
    public class CyclicReferencesAwareAttribute : Attribute, IContractBehavior,                                                  IOperationBehavior
    {
        private readonly bool _on;

        public CyclicReferencesAwareAttribute(bool on)
        {
            _on = on;
        }

        public bool On
        {
            get { return (_on); }
        }

        #region IOperationBehavior Members

        void IOperationBehavior.AddBindingParameters(OperationDescription operationDescription, System.ServiceModel.Channels.BindingParameterCollection bindingParameters)
        {
        }

        void IOperationBehavior.ApplyClientBehavior(OperationDescription operationDescription, System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ClientOperation clientOperation)
        {
            CyclicReferencesAwareContractBehavior.ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior(operationDescription, On);
        }

        void IOperationBehavior.ApplyDispatchBehavior(OperationDescription operationDescription, System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchOperation dispatchOperation)
        {
            CyclicReferencesAwareContractBehavior.ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior(operationDescription, On);
        }

        void IOperationBehavior.Validate(OperationDescription operationDescription)
        {
        }

        #endregion

        #region IContractBehavior Members

        void IContractBehavior.AddBindingParameters(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint, System.ServiceModel.Channels.BindingParameterCollection bindingParameters)
        {
        }

        void IContractBehavior.ApplyClientBehavior(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint, System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.ClientRuntime clientRuntime)
        {
            CyclicReferencesAwareContractBehavior.ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehaviors(contractDescription, On);
        }

        void IContractBehavior.ApplyDispatchBehavior(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint, System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DispatchRuntime dispatchRuntime)
        {
            CyclicReferencesAwareContractBehavior.ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehaviors(contractDescription, On);
        }

        void IContractBehavior.Validate(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint)
        {
        }

        #endregion
    }

    public class CyclicReferencesAwareContractBehavior : IContractBehavior
    {
        private const Int32 maxItemsInObjectGraph = 0xFFFF;
        private const bool ignoreExtensionDataObject = false;

        private bool _on;

        public CyclicReferencesAwareContractBehavior(bool on)
        {
            _on = on;
        }

        #region IContractBehavior Members

        public void AddBindingParameters(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint, BindingParameterCollection bindingParameters)
        {
        }

        public void ApplyClientBehavior(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint, ClientRuntime clientRuntime)
        {
            ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehaviors(contractDescription, _on);
        }

        public void ApplyDispatchBehavior(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint, DispatchRuntime dispatchRuntime)
        {
            ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehaviors(contractDescription, _on);
        }

        internal static void ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehaviors(ContractDescription contractDescription, bool on)
        {
            foreach (var operation in contractDescription.Operations)
            {
                ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior(operation, on);
            }
        }

        internal static void ReplaceDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior(OperationDescription operation, bool on)
        {
            if (operation.Behaviors.Remove(typeof(DataContractSerializerOperationBehavior)) || operation.Behaviors.Remove(typeof(ApplyCyclicDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior)))
            {
                operation.Behaviors.Add(new ApplyCyclicDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior(operation, maxItemsInObjectGraph, ignoreExtensionDataObject, on));
            }
        }

        public void Validate(ContractDescription contractDescription, ServiceEndpoint endpoint)
        {
        }

        #endregion
    }

    internal class ApplyCyclicDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior : DataContractSerializerOperationBehavior
    {
        private readonly Int32 _maxItemsInObjectGraph;
        private readonly bool _ignoreExtensionDataObject;
        private readonly bool _preserveObjectReferences;

        public ApplyCyclicDataContractSerializerOperationBehavior(OperationDescription operationDescription, Int32 maxItemsInObjectGraph, bool ignoreExtensionDataObject, bool preserveObjectReferences)
            : base(operationDescription)
        {
            _maxItemsInObjectGraph = maxItemsInObjectGraph;
            _ignoreExtensionDataObject = ignoreExtensionDataObject;
            _preserveObjectReferences = preserveObjectReferences;
        }

        public override XmlObjectSerializer CreateSerializer(Type type, String name, String ns, IList<Type> knownTypes)
        {
            return (new DataContractSerializer(type, name, ns, knownTypes, _maxItemsInObjectGraph, _ignoreExtensionDataObject, _preserveObjectReferences, null /*dataContractSurrogate*/));
        }

        public override XmlObjectSerializer CreateSerializer(Type type, XmlDictionaryString name, XmlDictionaryString ns, IList<Type> knownTypes)
        {
            return (new DataContractSerializer(type, name, ns, knownTypes, _maxItemsInObjectGraph, _ignoreExtensionDataObject, _preserveObjectReferences, null /*dataContractSurrogate*/));
        }

    }

Usage:

[OperationContract]
[CyclicReferenceAware(true)]
Object MyMethod(int number); 

Or if you use .NET 3.5 SP1 you can do this:

[DataContract(IsReference = true)]
public class MyClass
  {
        [DataMember]
        public string MyProperty{ get; set;}
  }

I think you will agree .NET 3.5 SP1 is better.

.NET, C#