Question

I have such a set of Constructors:

public BusinessObjectContext()
         : this(CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting("DataConnectionString").TableEndpoint.ToString(),
                CloudStorageAccount.FromConfigurationSetting("DataConnectionString").Credentials) {}

public BusinessObjectContext(string dataConnectionString)
         : this(CloudStorageAccount.Parse(dataConnectionString).TableEndpoint.ToString(),
                CloudStorageAccount.Parse(dataConnectionString).Credentials) { }

public BusinessObjectContext(String baseAddress, StorageCredentials credentials) 
         : base(baseAddress, credentials) { } 

However when testing / Mocking I need the object without any of the connection string parameters. How can I do this – preferrably in Moq?

Is this possible at all?

Answer 1

It sounds as if you have a code smell – the constructor is doing too much work. The article includes a set of fixes for such scenarios. Basically the answer is to only perform assignment in constructors, not execute business logic.