Unit tests that rely on URLHelper

This looks like it will be useful. http://weblogs.asp.net/cibrax/archive/2012/10/10/unit-testing-asp-net-web-api-controllers-that-rely-on-the-urlhelper.aspx

Get the value of an adjacent cell with jQuery

   1:   var row = $(this).closest('tr');

   2:   var description = row.find('td:eq(1)').text();

   3:   var code = row.find('td:eq(0)').text();

Using IMappingEngine with Castle Windsor

I must remember this

container.Register(Component.For<IMappingEngine>().UsingFactoryMethod(()=> Mapper.Engine));

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1719725/inject-automapper

Stop EF looking for migration tables

I keep forgetting how to do this should I’ll post it here.

Database.SetInitializer<DataContext>(null);

Localisation of built in MVC validation messages

While working on web site for a client in Belgium I was wondering why the Required attribute error message wasn’t being localised based on the CurrentUICulture of the thread.

This was bugging me, so I downloaded the MVC 3 source code from CodePlex and found the Required attribute unit test.  Even after changing the thread to use Flemish the below test still passed.

 

After talking to Damian we found that there are Language Packs for .NET 4.  These can be obtained from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=3324. 

These packs will install the required resources in you .Net 4 framework directory.

As soon as I installed the Dutch language pack the above test failed as expected.

I still need to test what gets stored in the logs when these packs are installed and an exception is thrown.  It won’t help us much if errors in the logs start getting stored in the language of the user that is logged in.

Dynamically add required attribute for MVC3 jQuery unobtrusive

 

While you can add the data-val attributes for MVC client side validation by default MVC unobtrusive validation won’t process them.

What you have to do is remove the validators and re-add them.

   1:  $("#Password").attr("data-val-required", "Password is required");

   2:  $("form").removeData("validator");

   3:  $("form").removeData("unobtrusiveValidation");

   4:  $.validator.unobtrusive.parse("form");