Previously, I posted how to support developers running Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005 on the same .Net 2.0 solution on the same team, built, CI server, etc . The solution is to have 2 solution files. These files have to be kept in sync to keep a healthy build process. It is very important...

I'll be attending the AltNetConf . Convenient for me that it's in Austin, TX. It's an open space conference, and I consider it the founding conference of a conversation that is "Alt.Net". I'll be proposing the topic: What are the Alt.Net principles? . The definition of Alt.Net...

I've been reviewing Jim Shore and chromatic 's upcoming Agile book, and I especially like the "No Bugs" section here: http://jimshore.textdriven.com/Agile-Book/no_bugs.html Large, dusty bug databases abound. Some teams have a process where this is unavoidable. Some teams use a bug database...

Testing WinForms UIs is tough. Manual testing is slow and difficult to repeat. Vivek Singh has just released a new version of SharpRobo , a WinForms testing framework. Vivek recommends running these tests through NUnit, and from practive, I've found that whatever I can test with NUnit, I can test with...

On the 3 rd day of NFJS , Neal gave a talk about testing with Selenium . Selenium is a end-to-end testing solution for web applications. This is testing on the customer acceptance level and not the unit-testing level. Selenium was developed by ThoughtWorks to test an application they were working on...

Brian Button from the patterns and practices team gave a session bright and early Friday morning that was great. He covered how to write frameworks. What’s interesting is that he focused on writing frameworks as a non-technical problem since he’s seen too many frameworks that solve the wrong problem...

Resharper 2.0 is finally released. I've been using the beta of 2.0 for a while, and I used v1.5 on VS 2003, and it enhances productivity a lot. One of the simplest things that I couldn't live without is rename. If I rename a class property that is used throughout my solution, it's done instantly. Without...

Not long ago, Jeremy Miller released version 1.0 his excellent dependency injection tool, StructureMap . I've ported it to .Net 2.0, and I've added generics to the bread and butter class, ObjectFactory. Download the . Net 2.0 release on sourceforge.net . StructureMap supports creating very loosely coupled...