Thinking in GIS

This is the second post of a serie started with this post about a MonoRail and ActiveRecord tutorial.Let's start developing our sample application. The first thing we need to do is to create a .NET project configured for using the CastleProject stuff. You can go in two ways:Create a Visual Studio project with the MonoRail project wizard.The wizard will create for you the MonoRail project structure, generate the configuration elements in the web.config file and add all the necessary references to the project. You will be prompted to choose a view engine (NVelocity, Brail or ASP .Net Web Forms), if...
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Cuyahoga is an impressive Open Source web site framework (and CMS) with many impressive features like:RDMBS indipendency via NhibernateEnterprise architecturePlug-in architectureDeployable, using Mono, to platforms different from Windows, like Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, unlike other popular .NET CMSSearch engine based on dotLuceneFull ASP .NET 2.0 enginelogging system via log4net (the same logging engine in zigGIS)People willing to deeply dig in Cuyahoga may download the latest release (1.5.0) source code and this basic tutorial for developing Cuyahoga modules.The problem with this tutorial is that is a bit out of date (is based on VS 2003 and on a old release...
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For .NET developers a very usefull and free framework for unit testing is NUnit, that is a .NET implementation of the popular JUnit for Java.I am using this for unit testing zigGIS, the Open Source ArcGis Desktop connector for PostGIS in which I am currently involved.I will show you in this post how easy and powerfull is to create, run and debug unit test for a .NET library or application.After installing NUnit, you can add a reference to it in your VS solution. After doing so you are ready to implement one or more classes (fixtures) for performing unit tests.moreIn...
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