Foundations of Programming - Karl Seguin

Foundations of Programming
What is a Unit Test ........................................................................................................................38
Mocking .......................................................................................................................................38
More on nUnit and RhinoMocks.....................................................................................................41
UI and Database Testing ................................................................................................................42
In This Chapter..............................................................................................................................42
Object Relational Mappers ................................................................................................................43
Infamous Inline SQL vs. Stored Procedure Debate ...........................................................................43
NHibernate ...................................................................................................................................46
Configuration............................................................................................................................46
Relationships ............................................................................................................................49
Querying ..................................................................................................................................50
Lazy Loading .............................................................................................................................51
Download .....................................................................................................................................52
In This Chapter..............................................................................................................................52
Back to Basics: Memory ....................................................................................................................53
Memory Allocation........................................................................................................................53
The Stack ..................................................................................................................................53
The Heap ..................................................................................................................................54
Pointers ....................................................................................................................................55
Memory Model in Practice.............................................................................................................57
Boxing ......................................................................................................................................57
ByRef........................................................................................................................................58
Managed Memory Leaks ...........................................................................................................61
Fragmentation ..........................................................................................................................61
Pinning .....................................................................................................................................62
Setting things to null .................................................................................................................63
Deterministic Finalization ..............................................................................................................63
In This Chapter..............................................................................................................................63
Back to Basics: Exceptions .................................................................................................................64
Handling Exceptions ......................................................................................................................64
Logging.....................................................................................................................................65
Cleaning Up ..............................................................................................................................65
Throwing Exceptions .....................................................................................................................67
Throwing Mechanics .................................................................................................................67
When To Throw Exceptions .......................................................................................................68
Creating Custom Exceptions ..........................................................................................................69
In This Chapter..............................................................................................................................72
Back to Basics: Proxy This and Proxy That...........................................................................................73
Proxy Domain Pattern ...................................................................................................................74
Interception..................................................................................................................................75
In This Chapter..............................................................................................................................77
Wrapping It Up .................................................................................................................................78
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