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• Auto-mocking container pitfalls?

  I'm taking a closer look at the auto-mocking container idea, specifically as we're including it in the upcoming release of NBehave. I'm a little wary of prolonged use, but wanted to get some feedback (it's also on the ALT.NET message board... Posted Apr 21 2008, 07:57 PM by bogardj with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Tools, TDD

• Version control with Subversion: so easy my wife can do it

  Yes folks, it's true. I have converted my wife to be a loyal Subversion user. My wife is not technical, not by a long shot. But the power of Subversion and the simplicity of TortoiseSVN made the convincing very easy. Ed. note: that's not my wife... Posted Apr 19 2008, 01:06 PM by bogardj with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• Setting the default browser inside Visual Studio

  My default browser is Firefox , and has been for many, many years. But that's not everyone's favorite browser, nor is the one they have to use all day long. When developing web applications for clients, it's important to know what their browser... Posted Feb 29 2008, 09:01 AM by bogardj with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• The Gmail rainbow

  I love Gmail, and I really love its labels , but I really really love its filters . I had a hard time following all of the groups I wanted until Joe showed me how to drink from the firehose . Now I get greeted with a nice rainbow in Gmail: With this,... Posted Feb 27 2008, 09:35 PM by bogardj with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• TestDriven.NET keyboard shortcut

  Continuing with the Palermo brain dump theme, Jeffrey introduced me to a keyboard shortcut for running TestDriven.NET tests from a keyboard shortcut. I had been right-clicking and going from the context menu: While the context menu is nice, it has me... Posted Feb 27 2008, 08:42 PM by bogardj with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• NHibernate and xmlpoke

  Some time ago I wrote about targeting multiple environments through NAnt . The basic concept is to use the xmlpoke task in NAnt to modify any XML configuration files your application might use. One setting that changes in each deployment we have is the... Posted Feb 20 2008, 09:45 PM by bogardj with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Tools, Continuous Integration

• Team System and open source

  A note to all open source developers in .NET: DO NOT use any exclusive Team System features in your open source projects! Team System and the Team Edition flavors do not mix with open source projects. I opened up the SDC Tasks Library on CodePlex and... Posted Feb 07 2008, 08:30 AM by bogardj with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• Best tool for the job

  I'm not sure if this is a trap, but I find myself doing this more and more. Let's say you have a short (less than 2 weeks) project to work on, and maybe it's for a church website or something similar. Non-business critical, but the customer... Posted Jan 28 2008, 08:18 AM by bogardj with | with 19 comment(s) Filed under: Agile, Tools

• Some essential Visual Studio tools

  Visual Studio for me personally is tough to use without some essential tools and add-ins installed. Having recently set up a dev machine, I became keenly aware of the pain of using a clean installation of Visual Studio. So I don't forget next time... Posted Jan 22 2008, 08:54 AM by bogardj with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• SVN and proxy servers

  So I wanted to check out Jeffrey's sample code he demonstrates in the latest dnrTV episode . I get a fun message back from SVN, which is completely meaningless to me: It turns out that although SVN works through port 80, the proxy server I'm behind... Posted Jan 07 2008, 02:53 PM by bogardj with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• Time expired, still going strong

  My Live Writer beta expired at the beginning of the year, but I'm still going strong: I don't see the "Ask Me.....Never" button, so I'll just click the Later button. It's still less work to click a button once a day than it is... Posted Jan 03 2008, 10:32 AM by bogardj with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• Targeting multiple environments through NAnt

  One of the nice things about using a command-line local build is that I can easily target multiple environments. Our configuration scheme is fairly straightforward, with all changes limited to one "web.config" file. When I refer to multiple... Posted Jan 02 2008, 03:49 PM by bogardj with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• ReSharper in VS 2008

  UPDATE 11/26/2007 Jeffrey Palermo notes that you can use R# in VS 2008 by turning off a couple of features . Ilya Ryzhenkov , product manager at JetBrains, gives detailed information on R# support in VS 2008 and talks about R# 4.0. After installing VS... Posted Nov 20 2007, 02:21 PM by bogardj with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• Installing Visual Studio 2008

  As has already been noted in numerous places, VS 2008 dropped today. The installation process has been surprisingly smooth, given my past installation experiences. Downloading went surprisingly quick (after I was able to get in to the subscriptions site... Posted Nov 19 2007, 04:20 PM by bogardj with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Tools

• Progress made

  I just wanted to highlight a quote from Scott Guthrie's recent post on MVC (emphasis mine): VS 2008 Professional now includes built-in testing project support for MSTest (previously in VS 2005 this required a Visual Studio Team System SKU), and our... Posted Nov 15 2007, 05:15 PM by bogardj with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Tools, Testing