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Developer Express Inc. develops Feature-Complete Components for ASP.Net and Winforms, Reporting Tools, IDE Add-ins, and Business Application Frameworks for Visual Studio. Information at www.devexpress.com On behalf of the Austin .Net Users Group (ADNUG) and every attendee of Code Camp 2010, we would...
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MsDeploy is a newish technology that is a bit schizophrenic. What I mean is that it is a tool that is useful to both Developers and Administrators but it is not clear from the documentation how to best use the technology and how to approach it. I believe it stated as a Server Administrator tool...
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Early this week we ( Jeffrey Palermo and I ) gave a Continuous Integration Workshop in Austin. We were able to record the workshop and our company Headspring Systems made the recordings available on their website. There is just under 3 hours of video covering the following topics: reducing...
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At the continuous integration workshop Headspring Systems held in Austin this week one of the topics that we covered was Database Integration. We are still in the process of publishing the videos of the entire workshop but I thought I would publish this snippet (30 minutes) that talks about how We Do...
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I am doing a Continuous Integration Workshop next Tuesday. The admission is free and will be held at the Microsoft Office. To register go here: http://www.headspringsystems.com/services/agile-training/continuous-integration/ This will cover the basics of what continuous integration...
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There were some changes to the nCover xml reports for code coverage which will break your existing integration with cruise control .net . Specifically if you use the Statistics feature of Cruise Control which is one of the best features it provides IMHO, the xml nodes have changed and ncover no...
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I have constantly fought both Virtual PC and VM Workstation when working on virtual machines for development purposes. While VMWare had the features I liked it also had a price tag and a rather smug attitude. I usually ended up having to use the free version of VMWare which was crippled or Virtual PC...
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The old joke goes something like, “Oh Visual Studio? Yeah, that’s the tool I use to host ReSharper.” Visual Studio has made lots of strides since the old VS 2002 edition. Before then, it was Visual Studio 6.0, on the much too often occasion I needed to update some old VB6 COM components...
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I first want to thank JetBrains for being pretty awesome. I have complained a lot about how they are constantly chaining their APIs to Resharper and as a result it makes keeping plugins very hard to maintain but they went way out of their way to help. I received and email from one of their developers...
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At the beginning of the year I got some feedback that the assertions in the MvcContrib.TestHelper library were great and very useful but the problem with them is that we relyed on the NUnit assertions. This was a problem for some users as they did not use nunit and did not want to include...
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There is a strange correlation between automobiles and line of business software applications when it comes to performing some standard repairs. Consider the following scenario, you are happily working away at your job or out dining with your friends or family and when you come out to your vehicle, it...
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Firefox Firebug Because today I needed a real tool to debug JavaScript. After I spent waaaaay too much time trying to use “window.alert”.
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I was browsing the plugins available for Intellij and came across this gem: http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/. Hats off to University of Maryland for this nifty little tool (does not require Intellij). Findbugs does static analysis of your projects and identifies patterns for bad code. General categories...
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Here's a quick 5 minute screen cast that demonstrates how you can use ReSharper to get where you want to be in your code. If you haven't tried ReSharper yet, I highly recommend that you download the free trial and give it a spin. Technorati Tags: ReSharper , PabloTV
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I’m still surprised by just how many people still aren’t using ReSharper. It’s an amazing productivity adding for Microsoft Visual Studio. Once you’ve spent the time learning a few keyboard shortcuts you will not go back to naked studio. There are few things that are more frustrating then jumping...