Monthly Archives: November 2009

Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Projecting Projections

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Howard Dierking

The big idea behind ADO.NET Data Services is that it enables a data source (generally a relational data source) to be exposed via a RESTful service.  In the context of fetching data – which is the principle concern of our … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Class Design

Posted on November 18, 2009 by Howard Dierking

In the process of writing a post about one specific feature of the design, I realized that I hadn’t actually described the moving parts in the solution.  There are 3 projects in the VS solution: the SSIS-specific code, the core … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – On BDD and MSpec

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Howard Dierking

Let me preface this post by saying that it is about my (early) experiences practicing BDD in the context of a specific specification framework – MSpec.  There are plenty of folks out there who are much more authoritative on this … Continue reading →

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Using Latest NUnit Version With MSpec

Posted on November 8, 2009 by Howard Dierking

As I’ve been working another blog post about my adventures in learning BDD ala MSpec, I ran into something that I wanted to share as the problem wasn’t immediately obvious (to me anyway). The problem is that MSpec has a … Continue reading →

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Astoria, SSIS Adapters and BDD – Code

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Howard Dierking

I’m currently working on the post talking about how, in the course of writing my SSIS data source for ADO.NET Data Services, I stumbled into replacing my unit tests with specifications.  However, in advance of that, I wanted to go … Continue reading →

Posted in ADO.NET Data Services, SSIS | 3 Comments