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MbUnit 3.2 makes it easier to work with Xml

In my previous article I mentioned about upcoming new release of Gallio /  MbUnit.  Feel free to download the Release Candidate and try it for yourself.  In this post I’ll talk about another new feature. Not everybody like XML but everyone
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tags: .net mbunit "unit testing" xml
Jul 19 2010 03:36 PM
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Assert.Count in MbUnit version 3.2

The Gallio team is about to release version 3.2 of Gallio and MbUnit.  If you’re impatient and like to eat your cake hot before it cools down, then download the Release Candidate.  The new version has many new great features.  Click here
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tags: .net
Jul 18 2010 09:24 PM
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How to display your assembly “Add References” dialog.

In Ultimate Software (the company that I work for) we build all the assemblies in the same directory.  Let say it’s C:\Common.  When we need to reference an assembly, we browse to C:\Common directory and select a desired assembly. I decided to
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tags: .net
Jul 12 2010 09:26 PM
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AssemblyHelpers now works .NET 4 assemblies.

More than two weeks ago I received an email from someone that AssemblyHelper tool doesn’t work with .NET 4 assemblies. I first mentioned about the tool in Testing internals members with InternalsVisibleTo attribute article. Here I just want to tell the
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tags: .net tdd .net internalsvisibleto
May 10 2010 04:34 AM
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Visual Studio 2010 RC is out.

Finally VS 2010 RC is out.  It’s available to MSDN subscribers today, February 8th.  Everybody else will be able to download it on February 10th.
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tags: vs2010 ctp visual studio vs2010 rc
Feb 09 2010 07:16 AM
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Live Writer syntax highlighting plug-in for WordPress.

About a year ago I wrote a small article how to use syntax highlighting in WordPress using Windows Live Writer.  Few months ago I discovered  Rich Hewlett’s plug-in for Windows Live Writer that works perfectly with WordPress blogs.  I’ve
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tags: windows live writer syntax highlighting wordpress
Feb 08 2010 09:18 PM
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Part 2: Configuration – Learning Azure with me.

In Part 1 “Hello Azure” we briefly talked about the Service Configuration file (ServiceConfiguration.cscfg). In that article we didn’t modify this file, we just accepted all the values provided by Cloud Service Visual Studio template. Let look at this
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tags: azure azure configuration
Feb 01 2010 03:49 AM
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Invisible Task Manager menu bar and tabs.

Today I was pair programming with one of my co-workers, and during the session he somehow made Task Manager tile,  menu bar, tabs, and status bar disappear.  At first, we had no clue how it happened and were forced to use Alt+F4 to close
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tags: tips and tricks task manager
Jan 23 2010 06:36 AM
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Part 1: Hello Azure – Learn Azure with me.

I want to learn Windows Azure.  I already have done some reading on the subject and created some simple Windows Azure applications.  However, I believe that writing articles about Cloud Services will help me to get stronger understanding of the
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tags: azure tutorial azure tutorial
Jan 19 2010 06:01 PM
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Cropper free alternative to Snagit.

If you read my posts, you know that my writing skills can be improved by a lot.  Therefore, I tried to put a lot of pictures in my posts to compensate my English.  Until recently I was using Snagit application from TechSmith to capture my
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tags: .net cropper
Jan 12 2010 05:31 PM
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Learning Azure Local Storage with me.

Azure has many different storages.  If you start Azure fabric and look at Development Storage UI you can see Blob, Queue, and Table Storage.  In addition to that Windows Azure also has SQL Azure. There’s also Local Storage and that is what I
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tags: .net azure
Jan 11 2010 09:54 AM
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Why Azure Web Role by default runs in the Full Trust?

When I create an Azure ASP.NET application, by default .NET trust level is Full trust. I always change it to Windows Azure partial trust which is similar to ASP.NET’s medium trust level. You can do it either by using GUI when you select Properties
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tags: azure security
Jan 10 2010 11:21 PM
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Russian Phonetic Keyboard

If you just want the keyboard layout and don’t want to bother to read this post, here’s the download link. My dad finally is using Windows 7.  He’s very happy with the new OS but he had a huge complain.  He wasn’t able to type Russian.  Of
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tags: .net
Jan 10 2010 09:14 PM
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Bookmarking with Visual Studio and ReSharper 5.0

When I code in my favorite IDE (these days it’s Visual Studio), I use bookmarks very heavily.  It’s one of my favorite ways to navigate in my code. I press Ctrl-K + Ctrl-K to set a mark in my code and a little blue rectangular appears on the left
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tags: .net resharper visual studio
Jan 09 2010 07:42 AM
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New Year Resolution.

All my readers (both of them including my mom) noticed that my last post was on August 26, 2009.  If you are good with math, you know that it's 128 days ago including today December 31, 2009.  I'm not that good with math and therefore, I had to
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tags: .net
Jan 01 2010 02:25 PM
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Microsoft is offering free e-book featuring Virtualization.

If you don't mind to give Microsoft your e-mail (they probably already have it), you can get Understanding Microsoft Virtualization Solutions e-book for free. This book is written by Mitch Tulloch, who wrote about two dozens of Windows related
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tags: book
Nov 11 2009 03:51 PM
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Creating an "M" Project in VS 2010.

When you install "Oslo", installation also adds one "Oslo" template in your Visual Studio.  It's "M" Project.  However, if you try to create a new "M" Project or open an existing one you probably will get the following error: This method uses
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tags: oslo vs2010 ctp oslo vs2010
Jun 01 2009 08:53 PM
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New May 2009 CTP for Microsoft "Oslo" is out.

If you don't know what "Oslo" is, it's set of future Microsoft modeling technologies.  You can find out more at "Oslo" Developer Center. In this release Microsoft finally is going to include "Quadrant", a GUI tool for "Oslo". As for previous CTPs
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tags: oslo
May 29 2009 08:20 PM
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Keywords as variables/identifiers. Why?

I use words variable and identifier interchangeably. Have you ever tried to use a keyword as a name of your variable?  Until recently I thought it was impossible.  However, C# and VB.NET allow developers to use keywords as variables. string
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tags: .net c# vb.net
May 14 2009 04:21 AM
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Shop-2009.com Spam

Yesterday I received this email from my wife's hotmail account: Dear friend:        how are you doing recently ? I would like to introduce you a very good company which i knew.They can offer you all kinds of electronical
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tags: security
May 10 2009 11:51 PM
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Integrate FxCop 1.36 & VS 2008

Update: Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) has Code Analysis feature.  It's not FxCop but it does serve the same purpose and is built using the same engine as FxCop.  Unfortunately I'm working with VS Professional that doesn't include Code
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tags: fxcop vs2008 visual studio
May 09 2009 07:03 PM
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Underfoot is not an Overhead.

Jeff Brown is trying to coin a new term "Underfoot". You can use underfoot where you use overhead.  Here's an example from Underfoot post: Building this proposed multi-tier platform will have an initial 20% underfoot while we retool and lay the
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tags: software engineering
Apr 21 2009 06:58 PM
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ReSharper 4.5 complains about my private fields.

I just downloaded ReSharper 4.5.  I probably will blog more about my experience with it. The first thing I noticed after upgrading to R# 4.5 is that I got a lot of complains (blue underlines) about my naming of non public fields.  Like many
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tags: resharper
Apr 10 2009 02:18 AM
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Stub HttpContext

Have you ever tried to TDD objects that use HttpContext, HttpResponse, or HttpRequest? If you did, you probably created wrappers for these classes. No more. With .NET 3.5 Microsoft gave us System.Web.Abstractions.dll that extends System.Web namespace. In
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tags: .net tdd cache httpcontext mbunit
Mar 24 2009 07:12 AM
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Review of Roy Osherove's review.

I just finished watching video by Roy Osherove where he reviews Unit Tests for NetDinner MVC source code. I liked the video and many points Roy makes are very valid.  However, let me concentrate on the things I didn't like. During the video Roy
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tags: tdd
Mar 21 2009 09:01 AM