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Recently while creating a unit test (MSTest VS2015) to test my repository pattern, I hit a snag. Despite having defined the database in my app.config of the Test project, I could not locate my newly created database. Turns out I needed to initialise my db in the test class , like so: <pre class="wp-code-highlight prettyprint linenums:1">// Declare this property - this is set by MSTest public TestContext TestContext { get; set; } // In test initialization [ClassInitialize] public static void SetUp(TestContext context) { AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetData("DataDirectory", Path.Combine(context.TestDeploymentDir, string.Empty)); }</pre> Saw this useful tip at Stackoverflow, which also talks about the differences between sdf (Server Explorer does not show table schema) and mdf (Server Explorer displays table schema). ...

I am still coming to grips with the power of SignalR. In this demo (from PluralSight.com “ASP.NET MVC 5 Fundamentals ” by Scott Allen), performance monitoring data is streamed to a browser client. SignalR is used in ASP.Net with MVC5. In this case windows authentication was used to authenticate the user on the client (understandably so). http://smoothiecharts.org/ javascript was used to display the graphs. All very nice.

From http to https. Today I went from here (http): to (https:) Thanks to Troy Hunt in providing the instructions. That post was written in Sep 2013. I had to conduct a few trial and errors to get https working for my site. Background: My blog ( richardborges.net ) is hosted on Azure site (richardborgesblog.azurewebsites.net). I have pointed richardborgesblog.azurewebsites.net to richardborges.net. Visit the excellent PluralSight course by Troy Hunt on how to do this. ...

Troy Hunt very informative article on how to load a free SSL certificate onto your Azure website. Thank you Troy. Written in 2013, but still relevant.