I need to use an embedded DB in a project. Naturally, I turned to my old friend, SQLite. It has served me well in the past, and I am well versed in all its tricks. Except... SQLite really fall apart when you are talking about even moderately multi threaded applications. By that I mean, it works just as advertised, for sure. It just lock the entire DB when used, which tend to kill other threads who...

I mentioned before that Rhino Mocks is a very powerful framework. This can be a problem at times, because it make it hard to notice that you cross the line into mock abuse. Let us look at this test for example: [Test] public void Will_raise_message_arrived_event_for_each_message_in_batch_and_across_batches() { var stubbedIncomingMessageRepository = MockRepository.GenerateStub<IIncomingMessageRep...

Here is why I love Rhino Mocks. This is a test that utilize quite a bit of the underlying power of Rhino Mocks. Check this out: [Test] public void For_each_batch_from_repository_will_create_and_execute_command() { var stubbedCommand = MockRepository.GenerateMock<ICommand>(); var mocks = new MockRepository(); var queueProcessor = mocks.PartialMock<QueueProcessor>( stubbedQueueFactory, st...

One of the major pain points for me in Rhino Mocks has always been the Callback() and Do() delegates. I designed them at the 1.1 days, when we didn't have such things as anonymous delegates or lambda. As a result, they required you to explicitly pass a delegate type, where a pain to use and major eye sore. For a long time, I accepted that there is nothing to do. The fault was with the annoying comp...

Let us assume that we have the following piece of code. It has a big problem in it. The kind of problem that you get called at 2 AM to solve. Can you find it? (more below) public static void Main() { while(true) { srv.ProcessMessages(); Thread.Sleep(5000); } } public void ProcessMessages() { try { var msgs = GetMessages(); byte[] data = Serialize(msgs); var req = WebRequest.Create("http://some.remo...