Razor Added to the F#/C# ASP.NET MVC 3 Internet Project Template

There's a new version of the F#/C# ASP.NET MVC 3 internet Project Template. This version allows you to choose between the ASPX and Razor view engines.

Here's how to use it:

1. Install version 1.6+ of the project template by searching for it on Visual Studio Gallery and/or updating a version that you had previously installed.

2. Create a new project.

3. You will now see a dialog box similar to what is shown below:

While it's certainly not required in order to use this template, you can see the full source on my GitHub.

ExpectThat with CoffeeScript, Zombie, Mocha, and Node

A few posts ago, I showed how to use ExpectThat with Mocha and Node.js. Today, I'll show a simple example of using ExpectThat with Zombie.js--a full-stack testing framework.

Zombie.js

Zombie.js is a fast, headless testing framework that provides various functionality to write tests that hit your full technology stack. While I generally prefer to write more fine-grained, isolated tests, it's important to also have a few smoke tests and/or integration tests to verify end-to-end functionality. Zombie makes these kinds of tests easy, while allowing me to still use ExpectThat and Mocha.

The Example

Here's a simple example that populates two input elements and then verifies that the values of those input fields contain the expected text.


You can find the full example here.

After a few commands such as " coffee --output lib/ specs/ " and " mocha 'lib/example.spec.js' --reporter spec ", you should see an output that looks something like this:


To learn more about ExpectThat, visit https://github.com/dmohl/expectThat.

Another Way To Kick-start F# WPF Apps

Over the last few years I've announced a number of project templates that are available on Visual Studio Gallery. A few of these have provided ways to kick-start F# WPF apps. I talked about one of these templates here. While these are nice for getting acquainted with building WPF apps in F# and/or F#+C#, the files needed for the included sample app may become a bother once you have a few of these apps under your belt. Because of this, I've released an F# only Empty WPF project template (an F#/C# Empty WPF template will likely be coming soon).

To get the new template, do the following:

1. In Visual Studio 2010 or 11, navigate to File -> New and select Online Templates (or just Online if using VS11).

2. Search for "Daniel Mohl" or "F# Empty Windows App" as shown below:

3. Select the template, click OK, and agree to the install.

While it's certainly not required to use the template, you can find the full source on my GitHub.