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Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Death of a Singleton-Testability He’s Liked, But He’s Not Well Liked If the current code works, why do we need to get rid of the singleton? What harm is it doing? After all, there’s a reason the pattern has a name. It must be useful. We have a few issues with…

Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Death of a Singleton-Overview Let’s review one of the changes we made to the code in part 6. In that discussion, we refactored the authorization checking into a separate class, AuthorizationServices. To do that, we moved a lot of code from the Page_Load method of our…

Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Separation of Concerns – The Big Picture   Let’s summarize what we’ve done. We removed code from Page_Load using cut and paste, and we created two new classes. It doesn’t seem like much as far as refactoring is concerned. But that’s because we aren’t actually…

Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Separation of Concerns – Principles to Practice   When looking at the code, the first thing that our attention was drawn to was the repetitive nature of the authorization code.  As you can see in the code in Figure 1, there are a large number of calls to…

Extreme ASP.NET Makeover: Separation of Concerns - Overview   Separation of concerns is a concept that, when applied to software development, deals with creating distance between dissimilar aspects of your code. This may seem like a complicated statement, but we all have dealt with it in…

Take a look at the final result, shown below, of switching the selected theme to UI Lightness and UI Darkness, which are the unmodified jQuery UI Themes added to ScrewTurn Wiki’s /Themes folder. The layout could use a little tweaking here and there and I haven’t updated all the pages to use…

So I got to thinking. It is hard to create ScrewTurn Wiki Themes. It is dead easy to create jQuery UI Themes. Could jQuery UI Themes be adapted to theme ScrewTurn Wiki? I decided to find out and it turned out to be a lot easier than I ever expected. jQuery UI Themes are designed to style…

Re-Theming ScrewTurn Wiki ScrewTurn Wiki ships with two themes – Default and Elegant, as shown above. The themes reside in the Theme folder and consist of a set of Cascading Style Sheets and images. As we saw in Part 3 , the CSS for a theme is quite long and involved. The two…

Integrating jQuery UI into ScrewTurn Wiki You’ve probably already guessed that ScrewTurn Wiki has an ugly confirmation dialog somewhere. The place to find it is in Edit.aspx. Simply log in as the admin (the default username/password is admin/password) and click the “Edit this Page” link. Click…

Improving User Interaction Imagine the following scenario: With the assistance of the CSS Refactoring Helper, we have created an aesthetically pleasing XHTML/CSS-based site. We have spent days—nay, weeks—toiling away to get the site layout and images just right. We’re working on an edit page…