Windows Support Number

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Friday, 30 March 2012

faking data in WP7 and other .Net platforms

Posted on 03:05 by Unknown
I needed to fake some data for a WP7 app yesterday and I was about to write a couple of classes when I thought why not check out what's available out there already...

There were already a couple of NuGet packages out there but I wanted to try out my forking skills on GitHub :) I had a quick conversation with Ben Smith about faker-cs and producing a NuGet package. 

Introducing Faker.Net on NuGet, with support for .Net 3.5 SP1, .Net 4.0, Silverlight & WP7.

Faker.Net support loads of different ways to fake data - addresses, names, phones numbers and more:


It's very simple to use, shown below is the code for the following WP7 apps:


It could be used anywhere you need fake data - proof of concept, testing, demo apps...


Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Posted in Development, testing, WP7 | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • MVVM anti-pattern: View code behind with no implementation
    I've seen rather a lot of this anti-pattern recently, to be explicit about what I mean, lets define this in terms of a WPF user control....
  • Showing a message box from a ViewModel in MVVM
    I was doing a code review with a client last week for a WPF app using MVVM and they asked ' How can I show a message from the ViewModel?...
  • Exception handling for an async method
    I've been unit testing a method which has a return type of Task<T> and I need to handle cases where  exceptions will be thrown. Sh...
  • WP7Contrib: Transient caching with In Memory Cache Provider
    Rich  and I are currently working on a WP7 application based around local content stored on the device.   This content consists of a databas...
  • Removing the 'Invalid Credentials... ' message from Bing Maps on WP7
    I got asked a question by @mrlacey today about how to remove the overlay message you can get when using the Bing Maps control on WP7. Now I...
  • Using IoC nested lifetime scopes with View Models in MVVM
    A common pattern you see when developing web services is the use of the Unit of Work applied to the HTTP request - anything that happens dur...
  • MVVM anti-pattern: Injecting the IoC container into a View Model
    This is another anti-pattern I've seen a lot recently, the dynamic use of the IoC container inside a view model to resolve child view mo...
  • Testing time based observable in Rx is so easy...
    If you've been doing Rx for a while it's very likely you're also be into testing with TDD. In which case you'll have come ac...
  • Azure - what a disappointing developer experience...
    Okay so I am new to Azure and it's way of thinking, but it seems certain developer tasks are just the biggest PITA I've experienced ...
  • SharpSerializer for Windows Phone 7
    There's a new binary serializer available for WP7 - SharpSerializer. It 's OSS and is currently hosted on CodePlex . Available via N...

Categories

  • .Net
  • .Net 4.5
  • Abstractions
  • Advertising
  • Agile
  • Agile Courage
  • AOP
  • Async
  • automated testing
  • Azure
  • Azure IIS RESTful development
  • BDD
  • Bing Maps
  • Bounded Context
  • C#
  • C# 5.0
  • Caching
  • Chocolatey
  • CLoud
  • CodePlex
  • Coding
  • Coding Building CI Testing
  • Coding C#
  • coding C# IoC StructureMap
  • Coding Functional-Programming
  • Coding REST Knowledge
  • Coding Services
  • Coding TDD Refactoring Agile
  • Command
  • continuous testing
  • coupling
  • CultureInfo
  • DAL
  • databases
  • DDD
  • DDD Coaching
  • DDD Domain Events Auditing nHibernate
  • DDD Entities Value Objects
  • Debugging
  • Design Patterns
  • Design Patterns Databases Auditing
  • Developement
  • Development
  • Development Coding
  • Development Process
  • Development unit testing
  • Development VS 2011
  • Diagnostics
  • Disposable
  • Exceptions
  • FINDaPAD
  • FindaPad Property Rental Windows Phone 7 Mobile Devices
  • Fun Coding Duct-Tape
  • Hotfixes
  • integration testing
  • IoC
  • jasmine
  • javascript
  • Jobs Development
  • LINQ
  • marketplace
  • Mobile Devices
  • Mocking
  • MSDN Coding
  • MSpec
  • Multilingual
  • MVC
  • MVVM
  • nCrunch
  • nHbiernate Repository Pattern Criteria
  • nHibernate Auditing Design Fluent
  • nHibnerate Entities Events Listeners
  • node.js
  • nodes.js
  • Nokia
  • NoSQL RavenDB Azure Development
  • Observations
  • OO
  • ORM
  • Performance
  • Portable Class Library
  • Portable Library
  • PostSharp
  • Process
  • Rants
  • RavenDB IIS 7.5 Development
  • Reactive
  • Reactive Extension
  • Reactive Extensions
  • ReadOnlyCollections
  • Resharper
  • REST Distributed-Systems
  • REST HTTP
  • rest web
  • RESTful
  • Rx
  • Serialization
  • Silverlight
  • Silverlight Installation
  • Task
  • TDD
  • TDD IoC DI
  • TDD Mocking
  • TDD Team Observation
  • Telerik
  • testing
  • threading
  • TPL
  • UI
  • Undo-Redo
  • unit testing
  • ViewModels
  • VS 2012
  • wcf
  • web api
  • Web Services
  • web services mobile devices data
  • WebAPI
  • Windows
  • Windows 8
  • windows phone
  • Windows Phone 7
  • WP7
  • WP7 Bing Maps Development Network HTTP
  • WP7 Bing Maps Development UK Crime
  • WP7 Bing Maps Development UK Crime Clustering
  • WP7 Bing Maps Development UK Polygons Clustering Performance
  • WP7 cryptography bouncy castle
  • WP7 Cultures C#
  • WP7 feedback development app store
  • WP7 Javascript web browser
  • WP7 MSBuild
  • WP7 ORM Databases performance
  • WP7 Serialisation
  • WP7 SilverlightSerializer C#
  • WP7 sqlite performance development
  • WP7 WP7Contrib Bing Maps Development
  • WP7 WP7Contrib Bing Maps Polygon Development
  • WP7 WP7Contrib CodePlex
  • WP7 WP7Contrib CodePlex Bing Maps Development
  • WP7 WP7Contrib CodePlex ObservableCollection
  • WP7 WP7Contrib ILMerge .Net
  • WP7 WP7Contrib Phone Maps
  • WP7 WP7Contrib SilverlightSerializer C#
  • WP7Contrib
  • WP7Contrib Bing Maps WP7
  • WP7Contrib WP7 Geo-Location development C#
  • WP7Contrib WP7 HTTP Compression
  • WP7Contrib WP7 Url Development Rx
  • WP7Dev
  • WPF
  • WPF Cultures
  • WuApi
  • XAML

Blog Archive

  • ►  2013 (16)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  September (3)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (1)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ▼  2012 (44)
    • ►  November (2)
    • ►  October (8)
    • ►  September (5)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  June (3)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ▼  March (13)
      • faking data in WP7 and other .Net platforms
      • Coupling and cohesion
      • Integrating jasmine into Visual Studio 2010/2011 beta
      • Playing around with jasmine
      • Building a multilingual MVVM app
      • Getting NLog working with Azure is as easy as 1, 2...
      • Showing a message box from a ViewModel in MVVM
      • Removing the 'Invalid Credentials... ' message fro...
      • Azure - RoleEnvironmentException in OnStart
      • Azure - what a disappointing developer experience...
      • "Configuration system failed to initialize" when u...
      • How fast is CallerInfoAttributes for INotifyProper...
      • Affects of caching on UI service layer
    • ►  February (4)
  • ►  2011 (52)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (5)
    • ►  October (7)
    • ►  September (7)
    • ►  August (11)
    • ►  July (4)
    • ►  May (2)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (5)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2010 (1)
    • ►  August (1)
  • ►  2009 (32)
    • ►  December (3)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (6)
    • ►  September (11)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (4)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile