OpenCover and ReportGenerator Unit Test Coverage in Visual Studio 2013 and 2015

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Phil Fresle

The usual choices for getting code coverage metrics in Visual Studio is to buy the Enterprise version of Visual Studio or buy the dotCover third party tool, both of which are costly, especially if you are developing small applications yourself and want to check the coverage of your unit tests.

There is a free NuGet package for generating code coverage metrics called OpenCover, and together with another free NuGet package, ReportGenerator, can give you code coverage reports for free.

The problem I found, however, was the documentation available to get the tool working was less than adequate for my purposes and it took several hours of faff to get it working for me. To save you time and money I have documented my experience here.
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Anti Forgery Tokens with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Phil Fresle

Single Page Applications using AngularJS with ASP.NET will by default leave our web api methods open to forgery abuse. A few simple steps will allow you to add anti forgery protection. Continue reading →

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Generic wrapper for calling ASP.NET WEB API REST service using HttpClient with optional HMAC authentication

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Phil Fresle

Wanting to implement my business rules in a separate tier running on a different server than the presentation tier I decided that I wanted the business tier to expose its functionality via REST methods using the web api. I then wanted a standard reusable generic way of calling the different controllers so I started on a proof of concept.

Whilst developing the proof of concept I also explored ways of securing the web api calls so that the controllers could not be used indiscriminately. I initially tried using a shared secret in the request headers and then extended this to use HMAC.

In addition to the wrapper for the HttpClient calls to the web api I also needed an ActionFilter to use with the web api controllers to check the shared secret or HMAC code. Continue reading →

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Unit Testing an ASP.NET MVC 4 Controller using MS Test, Rhino Mocks, AutoMapper and Dependency Injection

Posted on April 26, 2013 by Phil Fresle

I decided to put together a demo project to showcase unit testing an ASP.NET MVC controller. The MVC controller is part of a much larger n-tier solution that stores data in SQL Server, uses Entity Framework, has a data layer using the Repository and Unit of Work patterns, and a service layer on top, but you will see from the testing that all this complexity is hidden and the front end MVC application could be layered on top of mush as far as the MVC and Test projects are concerned. Continue reading →

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