Rhino Mocks and mocking Out/Ref params

Today I was in the process of mocking out a service call for an application I was working on.  But the method I wanted to mock took a out parameter in its signature.  Normally this is not an issue, but since this out parameter result was used in my code, I needed to setup an expectation on that value.

Fortunately for us, Rhino handles this pretty easily.  In order to set expectations on an Our or Ref all I need to do is add a call to the OutRef() method on my Expect call.

_findTask.Stub(
  a => a.TryFind(somePoint, out coordinates, out coordinatesSuggestions))
.Return(results)
.OutRef(coordinates = new List(), 
       coordinatesSuggestions  new List());

Windy — jQuery slider plugin with a cool effect

Here are the demonstration and sources.

For proper work you need to create an UL element with the wi-container class.

<ul id="wi-el" class="wi-container"> <li> <img src="images/demo1/1.jpg" alt="image1"/> <h4>Coco Loko</h4> <p>Total bicycle rights in blog four loko raw denim ex.</p> </li> <li> <!-- ... --> </li> <li> <!-- ... --> </li> <li> <!-- ... --> </li> <!-- ... --> </ul>

Browser without support of CSS 3D transition and transform will render the standart slider animation.

Unit testing code that uses HttpContext.Current.Session

Use can simply use this class to set up a fake one :)

private static void SetFakeHttpContext()
{
    var httpRequest = new HttpRequest("", "http://yoursite/", "");
    var stringWriter = new StringWriter();
    var httpResponce = new HttpResponse(stringWriter);
    var httpContext = new HttpContext(httpRequest, httpResponce);

    var sessionContainer = new HttpSessionStateContainer("id", 
                            new SessionStateItemCollection(),
                            new HttpStaticObjectsCollection(), 
                            10, 
                            true,
                            HttpCookieMode.AutoDetect,
                            SessionStateMode.InProc, 
                            false);

    httpContext.Items["AspSession"] = typeof (HttpSessionState).GetConstructor(
                BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance,
                null, CallingConventions.Standard,
                new[] {typeof (HttpSessionStateContainer)},
                null)
                .Invoke(new object[] {sessionContainer});

    HttpContext.Current = httpContext;
}