Dennis van der Stelt

Dennis van der Stelt

I'm a developer, international speaker and coach/trainer. I love to discuss code, software architecture and distributed systems, messaging, star wars and lego with anyone who wants to listen or speak.
I currently work at Particular Software on NServiceBus.

NServiceBus synchronously

DISCLAMER Do NOT do this! It’s bad! This article is just here for reference. But se...

How to unit test a method that has void as return type

How do I test a method that returns void? For example a method like this. public void...

Locking in SQL Server and the nolock and readpast hints

I’ve written about transactions, the TransactionScope in .NET before. System.Transact...

Value of Unit testing

There are probably uncountable amount of articles, posts and arguments on to why Unit...

Scrum guide 2011

In July a new update was provided to the Scrum Guide by Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwa...

Publish Subscribe with nServiceBus tutorial

When starting to dig into nServiceBus, you’ll notice almost every single example is e...

ClickOnce deployment and customHostSpecified error

Some time ago now I wrote about doing manual ClickOnce deployment using the command l...

Silverlight vs. Windows Forms or ASP.NET

Some time ago I went to a great presentation, organized by DotNed, held at Vicrea and...

Embedding images in an app_offline.htm

We have a public website running that we needed to take offline for maintenance. So w...