Jeff Makes Software

I'm having such a grand old time with all this new junk that it's a real buzz kill to hit a roadblock. I'm trying to run some unit tests against some DAL classes and they aren't seeing the appSettings keys in my config file at all. As far as I can tell, everything is as it should be. The config file is the same name as the assembly with .config on the end, and it's in the same directory. Do you think NUnit is doing something odd? Is it some weird symptom of using this alpha software?

I've become a real fan of unit testing, though I was somewhat skeptical about its use in Web apps. NUnitASP is pretty cool for testing UI, but what I really needed was a way to test classes running in the context of a Web app, not actual requests for pages.

Just out of curiosity, how do you handle a database record not found?

As I've been musing lately about how to integrate POP Forums with the new security features of ASP.NET v2, I have to say that I really, really dig the new provider model. Since I had to come up with all of the plumbing once upon a time to set roles and such, this is much easier having to just write the plumbing code to the data store.

Thought I'd toss this out to the “blogosphere” (I hate that term)... Has anyone been able to make NUnit work with the May build of .NET v2? I was able to get the source to compile, but running it throws errors I'm too dense to understand. Not sure if it's being configured right either.

Wow... I couldn't believe it when I read that Rob Howard was going solo. Didn't see that coming.

Last week I posed the question on whether or not I should write my own Membership provider for use in POP Forums. As I mentioned in that post, I already have my People class that does so much of what Membership does, but it might be convenient for users including the forum in their app to use the familiar (well, it'll be familiar someday!) Membership class instead of my own.

While uninstalling .NET Framework v2.0...