Author: Andreas Plahn

Awesome Visual Testing with Percy

One type of testing that’s incredibly important but often overlooked is visual testing. Functional testing is incredibly important but the truth is that users expectthings to work but the first thing they’ll notice is things that look broken. Oftentimes your selenium and unit tests will pass despite a hideous visual regression. That’s where a service like Percy comes in — Percy makes visual regression testing easy!
davidwalsh.name/awesome-visual-testing-with-percy

Using Renderer2 in Angular

The Renderer2 class is an abstraction provided by Angular in the form of a service that allows to manipulate elements of your app without having to touch the DOM directly. This is the recommended approach because it then makes it easier to develop apps that can be rendered in environments that don’t have DOM access, like on the server, in a web worker or on native mobile.

Source: Using Renderer2 in Angular

ScottGu’s Blog – Dynamic LINQ (Part 1: Using the LINQ Dynamic Query Library)

…Both the VB and C# DynamicQuery samples include a source implementation of a helper library that allows you to express LINQ queries using extension methods that take string arguments instead of type-safe language operators. You can copy/paste either the C# or VB implementations of the DynamicQuery library into your own projects and then use it where appropriate to more dynamically construct LINQ queries based on end-user input.
weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/dynamic-linq-part-1-using-the-linq-dynamic-query-library

Mouse Navigation – Visual Studio Marketplace

Add support for mouse navigation buttons (back and forward).

This is an extremely simple and lightweight extension that adds support for using the back/forward buttons on the mouse for navigating back/forward in code. Pressing these buttons simply executes the Navigate Backward (default Ctrl+-) or Navigate Forward (default Ctrl+Shift+-) as appropriate.

Source: Mouse Navigation – Visual Studio Marketplace