Testing
Simple Tool to Run Visual Studio Unit Tests without MsTest
Here is a simple tool to run Visual Studio Unit Tests outside of mstest. First the program outputs some basic banner information static void Main(string[] args) { Console.WriteLine(“N8test - {0}”, Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version); Console.WriteLine(“Implementation by Nate Bachmeier”); Console.WriteLine(“//wasntnate.com”); Console.WriteLine(“Running tests..”); Next it will load any assemblies that have been specified as arguments. Note that this requires the full path; with using some additional calls to File, [...]
Email Privacy Testing
Spammers are always trying to confirm that an address is valid. There are plenty of tricks such as simply requesting a mail reciept or more 31337 tricks such as getting you to request data from some point they control. The most classic version of getting you to request data is to include a hidden image [...]
Evil U+202E Sourcery for Hiding Extensions
I found an interesting video on youtube, which shows a trick to hide file extensions. Please watch the 45 second video before continuing on. There were two points of the video that were interesting, one the picking of this magic character and that afterward I needed to type things backward? It turns out that the reason [...]
Chinese Windows Boot Options
Here is the translations of the Chinese Windows XP Boot option. To load this up just press F8 bunch of times as the OS is starting.
Who tested leap year?
Yesterday was Feb 29th, the day that software breaks. After the outage at Azure, I got to thinking of Date testing. Here are a few other no brainers that seem to keep coming up. Feb 29th I’ve had to hexedit 3rd party libraries because they they screwed up Feb 29th so here is the official rule: year [...]