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I am in Nirvana! Two of my favourite things in the world combined into one.... Black Sabbath and Comic Book Movies.
Iron Man is slated for a May 2008 release - check it out here....
[via Scott Guthrie]
The next beta is here! Fuller details from Scott Guthrie's blog here....
Brian Harry of the VSTS Team at Microsoft has announced a milestone for the next version of Team Foundation Server CodeName 'Rosario' which will be ultimately released following the next version of Visual Studio CodeName 'Orcas'.
The milestone is marked...
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Apologies to all for my extended periods of absence over the last several months but hopefully I will have more opportunity to blog a little more regularly from now on!
To get back in the flow I thought I would flag up some interesting blogs on...
Get installable project templates for creating Vista Gadgets in C# and VB.Net here....
I have bought a Samsung SHG-Z560 HSDPA handset on a web n walk contract from T-Mobile to get broadband access to my laptop via my mobile handset.
This seemed a more logical choice than a data card since I have devices with PCMCIA and Express card form...
I recently bought a Dell XPS M1210 (fab laptop btw) and have been trying to get the damn thing to sync with my iPAQ hw6915 via bluetooth.
The recurring issue was that even after configuring WMDC to accept bluetooth connections my iPaq could not find...
I have been researching developing Sidebar gadgets for Windows Vista recently and came across this great article.
Basically, it allows you to use a .Net Interop Component to consume .Net assemblies directly within the scripting files for your gadget....
I frequently require to setup several web applications on my development box and for convenience almost without fail will use host headers to distinguish between them rather than configure and maintain multiple IPs.
This approach serves well until...
Just a quickie I hope might be of interest to some and save you a little time.
I recently had cause to write some new custom NAnt tasks for a Cruise Control build I have running. Natch, I wanted to develop the tasks using TDD.
I then found I had...
Vista has finally been released to manufacturing yesterday so Subscribers should be getting our grubby mitts on it sometime before the end of the month with any luck.
Microsoft Windows Vista...
I have been completely out of the blog for a while now but the reason is that my wife and I have just spawned our first attempt for vicarious global domination in the form of Imogen Grace, our new arrival.
She was born on 27 October 2006 at 0659 GMT...
I have seen another error which cropped up during my install/uninstalls and occurred after I installed and created site collections using the Configuration Wizard to create the web sites.
When I uninstalled MOSS it appears that the uninstall procedure...
I have been installing/uninstalling and creating/deleting web applications galore the last few days and eventually the MOSS installation blew up on me.
Re-installing MOSS after an uninstall the installer failed with error : The directory name was invalid....
Bill English has put together a sweet quick step-by-step to getting your first Corporate Intranet Site portal up and running under MOSS 2007.
Follow the link above to check it out....
TypeMock nicely introduced the Check.IsMock functionality with their 3.1.4 release and this ties in very nicely with the Natural Mock stuff they've introduced in their soon to be released 3.5.0.
e.g. we have a production method which uses a singleton's...
TypeMock.Net have been kind enough to send me a pre-release of their latest release at v3.5.0.There are several new features including improved support for usage within the Visual Studio .Net 2005 IDE but the new toy that I can say interests me the most...
I have seen this happen a few times in the last couple of months when new developers have been introduced to TDD.
Initially, enthusiasm is high at trying something new but after a few short days these guys can dismiss it out-of-hand because 'it doesn't...
To use TypeMock in your unit tests you need to enable the typemocking engine.
TypeMock's documentation cites a few different ways to do this but doesn't provide an easy way to run the NUnit Gui alongside Visual Studio (which is the way I prefer to work)...
I came across this macro last week and have found it to be practically invaluable in my quest to become the keyboard shortcut Ninja!
It works for 2003 and 2005 so get to it!
Kudos to Jeff Atwood @ http://www.codinghorror.com/blog for this peach.
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I just came across this little gotcha.
I needed to rename a cruise control .net build so I edited the .config file project block:
<project>
<name>Put my new name here</name>
....
</project>
Sure enough the build appeared...
The beta of Windows Vista has been released for general download:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebeta/default.aspx
If you are not an Msdn subscriber you will be required to register to obtain the download...
I just tried out the 2.2.8 release of NUnit today and came across an odd situation.
My .nunit project contained approx 900 unit tests when loaded under the 2.2.0 gui and yet when I load them in the 2.2.8 gui I have nearly 1200 and I also received an...
Here's a basic guide on setting up mocking of HttpContext using TypeMock.Net - this is *really* useful for writing test fixtures for your .aspx code-behind files and front page controller pattern commands which reference the current Context for example...