{"id":304,"date":"2011-03-11T21:48:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T21:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/?p=304"},"modified":"2011-03-14T08:46:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T08:46:27","slug":"part-4sharepoint-retreattdd-and-unit-testing-the-methodology-used-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myfatblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/03\/part-4sharepoint-retreattdd-and-unit-testing-the-methodology-used-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 4–SharePoint Retreat–TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont.."},"content":{"rendered":"

The other parts of this series can be found here\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

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  1. SPRetreat TDD \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a retrospective (See what I did there? -)<\/a> <\/li>\n
  2. Part 1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d SharePoint Retreat\u00e2\u20ac\u201cTDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used<\/a> <\/li>\n
  3. Part 2 — SharePoint Retreat\u00e2\u20ac\u201cTDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont..<\/a> <\/li>\n
  4. Part 3 -\u00e2\u20ac\u201c SharePoint Retreat-TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont..<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Part 4 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c- SharePoint Retreat-TDD and Unit Testing, the methodology used cont.. (This post)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Putting it all together..<\/h2>\n

    Over the last few parts, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve created and tested our Magic8Ball, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve extended it to become SharePoint aware and now we just need to wrap it up in a WebPart to finish this piece! For this we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to use the new SharePoint visual web part project template and aim to finish with this:-<\/p>\n

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    We won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be using any of our Unit testing tools now, But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth just re-running all the tests again if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve closed Visual Studio since your last visit, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Confidence booster isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Right click the solution and choose Add\/New project.<\/p>\n

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    One down side of the visual Web Part project is the fact that we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use the Sandbox, so we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll deploy as a farm solution to our chosen test farm.<\/p>\n

    You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll now have a new project in your solution explorer.<\/p>\n

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    Right click the References tag and add a project reference to the Magic8Ball assembly.<\/p>\n

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    One thing we forgot to do is Strong name the Magic8Ball assembly. We have to do this if we want to deploy and reference that assembly in a SharePoint project, so go do that now!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    We want to add a nice image of the magic 8 ball and we can let the deployment process handle that for us too. Right click the web part project and choose Add\/SharePoint mapped \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcImages\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 folder. This adds a new folder to the project and more importantly adds it to our feature, ready for deployment. Find yourself a nice picture of a magic 8 Ball. I used one from a free clip art site found on Bing. Drop this file into the sub folder that Visual Studio added to the mapped image folder.<\/p>\n

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    That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all the additional content and references we need, so now we can drop into the designer and build our web part visually. I added the following in this order (top to bottom):-<\/p>\n

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    1. An asp panel (to hold everything)<\/li>\n
    2. An image control. (Use the browse function on the ImageUrl property to brose to the mapped folder. This will set the URL correctly for the mapped folder.)<\/li>\n
    3. A label (for the answer to our all important question)<\/li>\n
    4. A textbox (So we can ask our question)<\/li>\n
    5. A button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll leave you to work out how to lay them out as I have done below..<\/p>\n

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      Double click on the button and visual studio will switch to the code view where you can add the action needed to make the ball function.<\/p>\n

      Add the code below to your click event (Varying the textbox and label ID\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for your own of course!)<\/p>\n

                  SharePoint8Ball spBall = new<\/span> SharePoint8Ball("8BallAnswers"<\/span>);\r\n            TheAnswer.Text = spBall.AskQuestion(QuestionBox.Text);<\/pre>\n