There are a lot of HowTos in the web talking about PXE boot and how to configure it. But most of them are applied to a particular Linux/Unix distribution or a particular Thin-Client Boot framework.

The goal of this HowTo is to show which components are needed in an PXE boot environment and how they are related to each other. No particular linux distribution and no particular framework.
After this article you will be able to set up a little PXE boot environment in your private (home)network for backup/recovery purpose or just for fun.

This article is not going to explain how to create a “net-bootable” recovery image. This will be discussed in the next article.

Administration dhcp, nfs, PXE, recovery, tftp

NMock2 is a library for assisting test driven development of .NET code by providing a dynamic mock object creation framework.

In this article, I’m going to show you the basics of the new stub feature in NMock2. Note that this feature is currently only available on the development trunk in the subversion repository at https://nmock2.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nmock2/trunk. Therefore, the features discussed here may change for the next official release.

Stubs can be used in scenarios where you have to test an instance of a class (let’s call this object testee) and this testee makes calls to another object (dependency) but you simply do not care what the testee calls on the dependency because it is not relevant for your test case.

Stubs will simply ignore any calls to it and if the call has a return value then the stub provides a default value.

.NET, Software, Testing .NET, Mocking, mocking framework, mocks, NMock2, stubs, unit testing