Jquery Post URL problems in IIS hosted Eenvironments

If you have used JQuery post with ASP.Net MVC the URL in the post will be something like

"YourControllerName/ActionName"

Example:-

$.post("Home/CreatePerson", { name: "John", time: "2pm" },
    function(data) {
    alert(data);
});

This will work great until you deploy your project in IIS with an alias to your web application. Let say the give alias is "MyWeb". The the URL will be -your-iis-server-ip/MyWeb. But the Jquery post in above will post its data to a URL something like -your-iis-server-ip/Home/CreatePerson

To avoid this you need to create post URL dynamically using @Url.Action() helper. Here is the corrected JQuery post.

$.post("@Url.Action("CreatePerson", "Home")", { name: "John", time: "2pm" },
    function(data) {
    alert(data);
});

Ncover Installation in windows server 2008

Recently I was trying to install Ncover in Windows Server 2008. Even though I had installed .Net framework 4.0 Ncover setup threw an error saying that "you need to have .Net 3.5 or above to install NCover".I had re installed .Net Framework 4.0 several times ad restarted the server but no effect.
Then I went to the server manger panel and I saw a section called feature summery. In add features section you can add .Net framework 3.5 features. After a restart everything worked fine.

Ncover Command Line For MSTest

If you are using MSTest here is the command windows batch command to generate test results

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\mstest.exe" /testcontainer: \yourTestProjectPath\YourTests.dll /testcontainer: \yourTestProjectPath2\YourTests2.dll /resultsfile:results.trx /testsettings:YourTestSettingsPath \local.testsettings

You can add several test projects using /testcontainer: argument. Here I have used two test projects. To use NCover we need to change this command by adding NCover commands . NCover arguments are started with “//” and for MSTest they started with “/”. Here Is the Ncover command to generate coverage.nccov and coverage.trend files.

"C:\Program files (x86)\NCover\NCover.Console.exe" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\mstest.exe" //x mstest_coverage.nccov //at "coverage.trend" /testcontainer: \yourTestProjectPath\YourTests.dll /testcontainer: \yourTestProjectPath2\YourTests2.dll /resultsfile:results.trx /testsettings:YourTestSettingsPath \local.testsettings

There are more options with NCover you can find those here Ncover command line

Now we have coverage.nccov and coverage.trend files we need to generate a HTML report from these two. For that we can use Ncover Reportng tool. Here is the Command to generate NCover HTML reports.

ncover.reporting mstest_coverage.nccov //lt coverage.trend //or FullCoverageReport:Html:output

Here we are generating full Coverage report in the directory called output