As software creation processes continue to become more complicated, development teams are taking a more all-encompassing approach that involves agile testing methodologies. Like agile software development, agile testing involves running test cases that assess the overall integrity of a solution, rather than simply ensuring that each part and piece are technically sound. Viewed as an analogy, agile testing methodologies ensure that software is a well-oiled machine, whereas a linear approach to testing just ensures that each of the gears is in good order. Herein lies the difference between unit tests and test automation. 

wkhtmltopdf and wkhtmltoimage are open source (LGPLv3) command line tools to render HTML into PDF and various image formats using the Qt WebKit rendering engine. These run entirely "headless" and do not require a display or display service. 

The first minor release of Bootstrap 5 is here! v5.1.0 has arrived and is packed with exciting new features and improvements. There’s experimental support for CSS Grid, offcanvas in the navbar, a new placeholders component, horizontal collapse support, new helpers, new CSS variables in our utilities, refactored JavaScript, and more. 

In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I’ll describe what needs to be done different for WPF as we go. I will also show how you can keep using the WinForms designer in Visual Studio even though it is under development and is not yet available for .NET Core projects. 

 Top 3 Open Source ASP.NET Core based e-commerce web applications

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grandnode ( Powered By nopCommerce) :It’s an open source, free, cross-platform e-commerce software based on ASP.NET Core 2.2 and MongoDB — NoSQL database. You can run it on Linux, Windows, and MacOS easily. GrandNode also supports Docker, so you are able to install it just in seconds with Docker. 

NuGet 3.5 RTM for Visual Studio 2015 and nuget.exe provide quality improvements, performance improvements, features and new target frameworks like netstandard and netcoreapp. 

Easy Modal for bootstrap, is a simple way to create modal dialogs using javascript.  Demo

Top Functional Programming Languages to Learn in 2024

Functional programming languages encourage a different approach to solving problems, often leading to cleaner and more predictable code. By focusing on pure functions, avoiding side effects, and utilizing higher-order functions, functional programming can improve code quality and reduce bugs. Additionally, these languages are well-suited for concurrent and parallel programming, making them valuable in modern, high-performance computing environments.

We're going to use Dapper.NET on our project; that much is not in doubt. However, we're not going to start development with it, and it will not be the only ORM in use. The plan is to develop this project using Entity Framework, and later optimize to use Dapper.NET in certain scenarios where the system needs a performance boost. 

Pure css icons, with only one element