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Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy.

Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers.

The ASP.NET Bundle is the ultimate ASP.NET unit testing solution, and offers both Typemock Isolator, a unit test tool and Ivonna, the Isolator add-on for ASP.NET unit testing, for a bargain price.

Typemock Isolator is a leading .NET unit testing tool (C# and VB.NET) for many ‘hard to test’ technologies such as SharePoint, ASP.NET, MVC, WCF, WPF, Silverlight and more. Note that for unit testing Silverlight there is an open source Isolator add-on called SilverUnit.

The first 60 bloggers who will blog this text in their blog and tell us about it, will get a Free Isolator ASP.NET Bundle license (Typemock Isolator + Ivonna). If you post this in an ASP.NET dedicated blog, you’ll get a license automatically (even if more than 60 submit) during the first week of this announcement.

Also 8 bloggers will get an additional 2 licenses (each) to give away to their readers / friends.

Go ahead, click the following link for more information on how to get your free license.

Thanks to Georg who provided me an invitation, i was able to digg a bit into Joost. At the core, Joost is very similar to Babelgum. It provides some additional Features like a widget gallery where - as far as i’ve seen - you can provide your own widgets and there is also a chat application integrated so can chat with your friends right out of the Joost client. They’ve organized their Content into several Genres. At the time of writing, they have the following:

• Cartoons & Animation
• Comedy
• Documentary
• Entertainment
• Lifestyle
• Music
• Music Entertainment
• Sports & Games

The performance of Joost seems to be slightly better than Babelgum but that might be affected by the network performance on my site that varies over daytime. Another thing that does not vary over daytime is the user interface. My favorite is definitely the Babelgum UI. It’s more intuitive, much nicer than the Joost UI and more fun to use.

From a content perspective, the point goes to Babelgum but this is a personal choice so everyone has to decide that for themselves.

The biggest disadvantage of Joost - at least in my environment - is the need to shoot some holes into the firewall just to get Joost running. For a fun product like Internet TV, this is a No-Go for me.

These days, i checked out Babelgum, a free on-demand TV which is currently in Beta. As soon as you’ve installed the Babelgum client, you can instantly begin to watch fullscreen TV. I’ve tried it out on the second screen (1280×1024) of my Notebook and it looks pretty good. The client application has a nice design and is easy to use. I found plenty of content across a variety of topics. To get their users started, they’ve organised content into nine thematic channels:

What i found remarkable is that there are a lot of contributions with a length between 10 to 25 minutes. Very well for a quick relaxing break during a hard day.