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• Tooling stack of testing Asp.MVC Views
  
  “Craftsmen know their tools” At last weeks Jim Counts did a session on Testing MVC Views with ApprovalTests. watch the video here ] While I am always happy to see more ApprovalTesting in the world, I was also impressed with the full tooling stack Jim used throughout the presentation. Don’t get me wrong, Jim still does a simple “Hello World” type demo, but he applies all the rigor and professionalism I would want in a real project to that example. Nicely done Jim, you’ve inspired me to raise my game, and hopefully others as well. Asp.MVC Asp.Net C
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, July 22, 2012
• DotNed podcast: Mads Kristensen on ASP.NET developer tooling in Visual Studio 2012 and beyond
  
  For a change an English language podcast :-) In this podcast Maurice de Beijer speaks with Mads Kristensen about web tooling in Visual Studio 2012. Besides the standard build in tooling for web developer they also talk about Web Essentials 2012, the plugin Mads develops in his spare time to give web developers even more features and capabilities. Links: Blog: [link] Web Essentials 2012: [link] Web Developer Checklist: [link] Enjoy! Podcast DotNed
  The Problem Solver - Friday, March 15, 2013
• Productivity Power Tools 2012 – February 2012
  
  A new update to Productivity Power Tools 2012! This update includes a couple of bug fixes including a crashing bug in the Custom Document Tab Well on debug. Download now! Link: [link]. Download: ProPowerTools.vsix. Visual Studio 2012
  DevelopMentor Courses - Monday, February 25, 2013
• Entity Framework 5 + Enumerations => What’s not to love?
  
  and choose “Run Custom Tool” in order for the T4 template to regenerate the classes. Entity Framework 5 now supports enumerations (when using Visual Studio 2012 and targeting the.NET 4.5 framework). So let’s have a look. We’ll create a table called Planet with a name and a field to indicate whether it is habitable. CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Planets]( Note: the data type for ‘Habitable’ is a smallint. Next we’ll generate an entity data model from the database. Nothing exciting, since our database has just one table. In order to so, we need to update the model with information about the enum.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, September 2, 2012
• Using Reporters in Approval Tests
  
  The DiffReporter is most often used for this, because you can just right click in your particular differencing tool (TortoiseMerge is shown above, BeyondCompare, WinMerge or KDiff can also be used) and approve the output ‘approve whole file’. Rather than launching the output in any tool, this reporter creates the command-line output needed so that you can move the results file to the approved file quickly. Today I pushed new versions of ApprovalTests for both C# and Java to SourceForge. Updates include new capabilities around the Reporters feature set for ApprovalTests. png, *.html,
  DevelopMentor Courses - Saturday, December 31, 2011
• Roll Your Own REST-ful WCF Router
  
  WCF will give you all the tools you need to write a scalable, high-performance router with a minimal amount of code. Download the code for this post here. Recently I’ve been tasked with building a WCF routing service and faced the choice of whether to go with the built-in router that ships with WCF 4.0 , or to build one from scratch. The built-in router is great for a lot of different scenarios – it provides content-based routing, multicasting, protocol bridging, and failover-based routing. This is a very important requirement for performance and scalability. null ) { bool ? Enjoy.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, April 24, 2012
• Lynn Langit: Compare cloud VM prices – AWS vs. Rackspace vs. Google vs. Azure
  
  I tried out an interesting new tool from RackSpace today. I found the tool to be simple and usable, so I recorded a quick (< 3 min) video … Continue reading → It allows you to quickly and easily compare prices of cloud-based VMs.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Monday, January 7, 2013
• Retrospective Dialogue Sheets: feedback & updates 1 of 2
  
  The short answer is No, because they are PDFs its kind of difficult - although I’m sure you could with the right tools. Every couple of months I e-mail everyone who has downloaded one or more of my Dialogue Sheets to get some feedback. Getting feedback is why I make people register to download a Dialogue Sheet - sorry, I know some people don’t like doing this, and I know some people fake their e-mail addresses but unless I do this I get very little feedback. This is the first of two post on this subject, the second post will examine a few findings in more depth.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Monday, November 28, 2011
• Guerrilla.NET (US) Training
  
  Debugging : Come and learn to build robust.NET applications including tools and techniques for monitoring and debugging applications in a production environment. Debugging : Come and learn to build robust.NET applications including tools and techniques for monitoring and debugging applications in a production environment. This module also looks at this new set of tools in your synchronization toolbox. You'l learn how to build applications for Apple's iPhone/iPad platform using familiar tools and languages such as WCF, LINQ, and C#. dynamic typing from C# 4.0, and 5.0
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, March 1, 2011
• Guerrilla.NET (UK) Training
  
  This module looks at this new set of tools in your synchronization toolbox. In this talk we look at the tools PFx gives you to aid parallelizing algorithms but we also shows that without care PFx isn't necessarily the free lunch it appears. Power Debugging with WinDBG For many developers debugging tools start and end with Visual Studio. Leverage new features of C# 4.0, including named and optional parameters and dynamic typing. Understand the new features of the core.NET runtime services including the garbage collector. Workflow 4, ASP.NET MVC and Silverlight. couldn't?
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, March 1, 2011
• Does anyone actually use Quick Test Pro etc.?
  
  Those who talk about automated testing buy tools like Quick Test Pro, WinRunner and Quality Centre and Rational Test Workbench, Rational Quality Manager, i.e. expensive products from the likes of HP and IBM. Those who do automated testing use tools like Selenium , Fit & Fitnesse , Cucumber (inc. In addition: I just don’t think these tools are any good. To be fair, I’m no expert on testing tools but I’ve seen Quality Centre in action. Quality Centre (QC) isn’t an automated testing tool, its a very expensive test tracker. Gerkin, RSpec, etc.)
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Wednesday, September 19, 2012
• Brock Allen: LearningLine
  
  Michael has already done an excellent job of explaining the need for such an online training tool, so I won’t try to reproduce You might have heard already, but DevelopMentor (where I author and teach training courses in ASP.NET, MVC, jQuery, HTML5, WebAPI and WIF technologies) has released a new online training platform called LearningLine.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Monday, February 18, 2013
• Llewellyn Falco (Approval Tests): What's new in ApprovalTests.Net v.22 ?
  
  is here, you can get it on Nuget Here's what's new: UTF8 Support [Contributors: Scott Reed & Maurice De Beijer] Text Files will now work with UTF with (many/most) Diff Tools. ApprovalTests.Net v.22 This basically comes down to making everything UTF8, and including the bom (byte order mark) header in the text files. Backwards compatibility break** This change means version22 of ApprovalTests will break compatibility with previous versions. To adjust for this, when you run your tests, ApprovalTests will check the.approved file and add the UTF8 bom if needed.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, February 5, 2013
• Lynn Langit: AWS RDS SQL Server vs. SQL Azure Smackdown – Importing Data
  
  It is useful for me to understand exactly which features and tools work with cloud-deployed instances of SQL Server. This is first in a series of comparisons between Amazon Web Services RDS SQL Server and SQL Azure. In this screencast … Continue reading →
  DevelopMentor Courses - Thursday, May 17, 2012
• 11 Agile Myths and 2 Truths
  
  Please be aware: documentation is often unread, often fails to communicate, is used as a defensive tool and is typically the second most expensive think on a large software project (after rework). I deliver a lot of Agile training courses and I give a lot of talks about Agile ( BCS Bristol tonight ). There are some questions that come up again and again which are the result of myths people have come to believe about Agile. Consequently I spend my time debunking these myths again and again. ve been keeping a little list and there are 11 reoccurring myths.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 26, 2013
• Lynn Langit: Quick Look – Data Mining in Excel with Predixion
  
  I’ve found more and more use of ‘small’ BigData tools, such as Predixion Software. This is not only a plain English data mining add-in to Excel, but also a set of APIs, a cloud-based data mining service and more. You … Continue reading →
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, February 10, 2013
• What’s New in ApprovalTests.Net v.18?
  
  This is especially nice for… CodeCompareReporter My new favorite text diff tool is Code Compare, mainly because it integrates directly into Visual Studio 2010. FrontLoadedReporter IEnviromentAwareReport Upgrades CodeCompareReporter DictionarySupport EF and Mvc3 additions Bug Fixes FrontLoadedReporter Attribute (For Build Systems) You can now add the following code to your assembly. assembly: FrontLoadedReporter( typeof (NCrunchReporter))] This is only allowed at the assembly level, and must be a IEnvironmentAwareReporter. don’t know how this didn’t exist from the very start.
  DevelopMentor Courses - Tuesday, April 10, 2012
• 10 years on: IT does matter, more than ever
  
  And thats the vital bit: information technology, computer technology, software technology is no longer a back room cost cutting tool. Just under 10 years ago Nicholas Carr wrote a (in)famous piece in the Harvard Business Review entitled “IT doesn’t matter”. The argument was, post dot-com-boom, that IT was now a commodity, companies didn’t need to spend big bucks on it because they could buy just about anything they wanted off-the-shelf. At the time my response was, “Is IT worth it?” I, unsurprisingly said “Yes it is” and then looked at Carr’s example of American Hospital Supply.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Thursday, July 19, 2012
• The Architecture of WCF
  
  In these situations we can use metadata in the form of WSDL or WS-MetadataExchange to provide the client with a description of the endpoint which tools (Add Service Reference in Visual Studio and svcutil.exe from the command line) can consume and build the necessary code and configuration to invoke the service. 'Before WCF it was, of course, possible for software running on different machines to communicate. Over the lifetime of Windows there have been many technologies to achieve this: sockets, DCOM, MSMQ,NET Remoting, ASMX Web Services and more. Messages. Channels. WCF, as of 4.5,
  DevelopMentor Courses - Sunday, April 7, 2013
• Agile Advice for Aviva (and many other big companies)
  
  Skype, VOIP, everything Don’t spend money on expensive test tools Manage teams as a whole: not a Test Team and a Test Manager there, and a Dev Team and a Dev Manager there, and a BA…. Testers: download the open source test automation tools and enrol developers to help you get them working. Testers: Automation, Automation, Automation - get with the Open Source tools - Selenium, FIT/Fitnesse, Cucumber, etc. I’m starting this blog entry on the train returning to London after speaking at Sync Conference in Norwich - and I’m finishing sitting in my local coffee shop on Tuesday.
  Allan Kelly's Blog - Tuesday, February 19, 2013