Integration tests written in .Net using locally hosted node.js server

I've blogged before about hosting web services created with Web API inside a test fixture in .Net, what follows is the same idea but in this case hosting a node.js implemented web service, this is using the node.js server I created in this previous post.Jumping straight to the solution this is what I came up with:As you can I've managed to reduce the amount required to be specified for each test fixture to 3 parameters:working directory for node.js...

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Building mock web service in node.js instead of Web API

I needed to build a mock back-end web service this week because the middle-ware team wasn't ready (they're useless standard Java 'enterprise' developers) and @Jason challenged me to write it in node.js. He showed me an example of how this was done before and said it shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to have something up and running, I've done this kind of requirement previously in Web API and thought it would be interesting to finally do 'something'...

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Suspending & resuming property notifications when using INotifyPropertyChanged

Currently I'm working with some UI code which has a 'domino effect' when a property changes on a view model - the data is being rendered in a tree view, and the reason for the 'domino effect' is because the value of a node in the tree view is an aggregation of multiple child nodes (leaf nodes hold the actual values which are aggregated up). The dataset is dynamic, it can be updated during it's visualization and when this happens we want the ability...

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