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Recently I had a need to create an entity model from an existing database so started adding an edmx as I had done so many times before in this scenario. Then I remembered reading on the Entity Framework documentation website that its actually possible to reverse engineer a code first model .

Selenium and SpecFlow are pretty straight forward to get to grips with individually, but on larger projects when the page object pattern is used things start to get a little more complicated. I find it useful to think about three layers when organizing the code that runs the tests...

The documentation  for the Entity Framework provides thorough introduction, in this post I start with the basic tutorial for code first with a view to setting up an application I can use to practice some technologies and techniques on in the future.

When I first started learning to use mocking frameworks I was lucky enough to start on Moq which was nice and simple. Whenever I needed to know something there was one single google code page which told everything. Nice! Rhino Mock by example I find hard work, so I put this cheat sheet together to help get up and running quickly.

At work we have started moving towards a standard .NET application architecture for most of our apps.  This uses MVC 5 website with a REST client talking to a Web API 5. When you open a visual studio solution, as a minimum you see the following projects...

Uploading files is pretty straight forward with ASP.NET MVC 5, but there are few things to be aware of to make things go a bit smoother.

When using ASP.NET MVC 5, its easy to write unit tests around the framework due to the various abstractions provided.