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youve been HAACKED, July 22, 2008
One principle to follow when writing a unit test is that a unit test should ideally not cross boundaries. Michael Feathers takes a harder stance in saying A test is not a unit test if: ...
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Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, July 10, 2008
(editors note: Eric gave me several different options to use instead of sliced worms, but they were all less palatable. So to speak.) Jeff Atwood wrote an interesting post on the use of #regions in c...
.Avery Blog, July 10, 2008
This is the first in a series of posts about building The Lounge Advertising Network. My goal here isn't to try and tell people how to build applications, but rather just to explain how I have refact...
Steven Smith, July 7, 2008
Karl Seguin has an interesting post about using System.Func to fight repetitive code blocks, which actually addresses a pain point I've had for quite some time but had never acted on to fix. Whe...
ISerializable, July 5, 2008
Update: Here's how you can extend Depender with your own dependency rules Depender is a tool that I created to illustrate several concepts both for my book and both for my training classes. I think i...
the telerik blogs, July 4, 2008
If you like us are passionate user of ReSharper you know that ReSharper "did not like" when a class' namespace did not correspond to the directory structure the file belongs to. To illustrat...
peterkellner.net, July 3, 2008
One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient code. In this post, I'll show some...Th...
JohnPapa.net, June 26, 2008
Just a quick code hit Ive been meaning to blog about Ive seen a lot of examples that implement the PropertyChanged event handler of the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. Most of them are de...
youve been HAACKED, June 23, 2008
I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the ta...
JohnPapa.net, June 10, 2008
The folks at JetBrains have released Resharper 4.0 and made it available for purchase and download on their web site. The best new feature is the full support for C# 3.0 and LINQ. It has been a lo...
eXtensible mind, June 8, 2008
You have probably read or listened all the (maybe a bit vague) information about the Mesh Operating Environment (MOE): a platform that will allow multiple applications and devices to participate...
Rick Strahls WebLog, June 3, 2008
You ever notice how your level of enthusiasm can vary quite widely during various times of software development? It seems that I go through a number of phases that can vary quite drastically which als...
ASP.NET Announcements, May 27, 2008
In this release you would find five new commands, few enhancements, and four fixes. The main focus of this release was the sorting features in .Net. Now you can create sortable collections and impleme...
Al Pascual, May 22, 2008
I have recently being a twitter user, not proud that I become a user or better said a reader. I have blogged before about twitter, but after forcing myself to use it I have a much better opinion ab...
JohnPapa.net, May 22, 2008
I downloaded Resharper 4 beta today. I've been installing several versions of the Resharper 4 EAP as they have been released. Most have been pretty stable over the past month, which makes it no surpri...
Jeffrey Palermo, May 17, 2008
I recently tried out Windows Server 2008 x64, and I'm gradually transitioning. I'm installing all the tools I have on my XP drive, but I won't complete the switch until I've veri...
Jeffrey Palermo, May 17, 2008
I recently tried out Windows Server 2008 x64, and I'm gradually transitioning. I'm installing all the tools I have on my XP drive, but I won't complete the switch until I've veri...
ASP.NET Announcements, May 10, 2008
Refactoring is a technique to change the existing ugly code and make it beautiful without changing the workings of the code.
In short, making the code suck less!
Our website RefactorCode is develop...
K. Scott Allen, May 8, 2008
Daily Standup Transcription 06 May 2008 1300 Zulu Time In 00:02:34.66
" so, yesterday I continued the refactorafication of some classes. The job isn't easy, but I'm going to work hard and continue th...
Shaun Walker, May 7, 2008
When it comes to software, a component or service which survives for an extended period of time without substantial refactoring is generally considered to be an anomoly. However, there are cases when ...
Tom Hollanders blog, April 29, 2008
About a year ago I put together a post called Thoughts On Product Management, containing some random musings about my role at the time. The big reason I put together this post was because so few peopl...
Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, April 20, 2008
Thursday afternoon my first Microsoft Global MVP Summit officially came to an end, sadly. But that did not mean the experience ended. Even now I am still in Seattle on Saturday, taking a few moments o...
K. Scott Allen, April 18, 2008
At the last CMAP Code Camp I did a "code-only" presentation entitled "A Gentle Introduction to Mocking". We wrote down some requirements, opened Visual Studio, and started writing unit tests. Matt...
Steven Smith, April 15, 2008
I've been posting about some feature requests for ASP.NET/Visual Studio, so here's one more in that thread. One nice feature of Blend is the ability to select a chunk of XAML and choose to "Extract U...
Cirrus Minor, April 15, 2008
Awhile
ago I asked "who tests the test":" One question I don't hear asked too much is "who tests the tests?"
- after all we are writing all this additional code - if we write so many bugs in
o...
Steven Smith, April 2, 2008
Not sure if it's already there, but the folks at DevExpress or JetBrains (or Microsoft, but I don't want to wait for another VS) should have a refactoring for CodeRush/Refactor! or Resharper that will...
Did it with .NET, March 14, 2008
Recently, I was refactoring some trivial F# code, and the results were so elegant
that I felt it would be instructive to share them. My tale begins simply with a list
of lists...
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Jeffrey Palermo, March 11, 2008
There is quite a bit of talk lately about unit testing using the extract method and override, or "inherit & override" method for stubbing out a method for unit testing. Methods don...
Laurent Duveau, March 3, 2008
Following my Resource Refactoring Tool post, Uwe pointed me to Zeta Resource Editor. This very nice free win app allows you to easily edit your resx files, each language in the same row! Download li...
Laurent Duveau, March 2, 2008
The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard ...
eXtensible mind, February 21, 2008
(go straight to the snippets if you can't wait ;))
Regardless of whether you use a mocking framework/library or not, as long as you're doing unit testing, you're almost for sure using mocks. Most of...
eXtensible mind, February 21, 2008
Highly recommended reading: Fowler's article Mocks aren't Stubs. It's a very clear characterization of the types of so-called Test Doubles (mocks, fakes, stubs, etc.) you can use to aid your unit test...
eXtensible mind, February 21, 2008
Most projects use ""Warnings as Errors"" project-level setting together with the ""XML documentation file"" so that you can spot early on which areas of your public APIs are not documented or ...
Federal Developer Weblog, February 20, 2008
Microsoft has released a set of Power Tools for folks who use Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools. Here's the description of what's in this free download, and it's a lot! ...
Granville Barnett, February 17, 2008
...well there still is none. I seem to be pressing commands in VS 2008 Win32 projects which would invoke pretty basic refactoring tools in C# and VB.NET but yet C++ has nothing! Now I know the VC guy...
Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, January 24, 2008
One of my favorite tools is available for Visual Studio 2008, Refactor 2008 . If you do not know what Refactor is, it is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that makes it very easy to refactor your code. That...
K. Scott Allen, January 21, 2008
Igor emailed me for my thoughts about his SMTP server built with Windows Workflow. A link for the source code is at the bottom of his post. As Igor points out, WF is well suited to solve more than jus...
eXtensible mind, January 20, 2008
Most projects use ""Warnings as Errors"" project-level setting together with the ""XML documentation file"" so that you can spot early on which areas of your public APIs are not documented or ...
ISerializable, January 12, 2008
I'm still struggling away with my book, and was wondering what you thought about this analogy. I am referring to the problem of testing private\public method, and in that regard I refer to the ease o...
Shaun Walker, January 8, 2008
Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to inform you that the Blog has officially been released and packages have been posted in the the Downloads area.
Here are the release notes:
BLG-6299 Blog module: Updati...
Mark Miller, January 3, 2008
Dustin has wrapped up his excellent Twelve Days of Refactor X-Mas series highlighting
refactorings that work with advanced language features in Visual Studio 2008 right
now. One of the things I ...
Jeffrey Palermo, January 2, 2008
Most of us (I think) don't have full browser automated testing through Watir or Selenium. Because of that, even though we have tons of automated NUnit tests, we could still have problem in w...
Did it with .NET, December 31, 2007
Hello again, X-mas celebrants! I
have just one last verse in my carol to
make all of your Visual
Studio 2008 experiences bright. Don't let your hearts be saddened ...
Did it with .NET, December 30, 2007
Greetings friends! I bring tidings of comfort and joy! That is, you can rest comfortably
and joyously, knowing that you don't have to wait for refactorings that leve...
The ASPx Blog, December 30, 2007
Want to learn more about the refactorings in Visual Studio 2008 from the lead developer? Dustin Campbell is doing a 12-day series on Visual Studio 2008 refactorings made specifically for Visual Basic ...
Did it with .NET, December 29, 2007
I'm afraid that I have an apology to make. I feel that I've given my Visual Basic
friends a raw deal because the verses of my carol thus
far have been primarily abo...
Mark Miller, December 28, 2007
Dustin is on day nine of his 12-day series on Refactor! Pro's
shipping support for the new language features in Visual Studio 2008, namely C#
3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0.
On day six Dustin showed C...
Did it with .NET, December 28, 2007
Welcome back for more X-mas refactoring
fun!There are just four more verses in my carol,
but I'll make them count. Refactor!
Pro can bless your Visual
Studio 200...
Did it with .NET, December 27, 2007
JustinKohnen: @dcampbell:
um... Christmas is over dude ;)
That was posted on Twitter today when I announced
that I was working on this very ...