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TypeMock Isolator and LINQ
I’m doing some work with TypeMock and I start to love it more and more. For example, how about removing your database completely from your continuous tests? Sure you can do some database testing during the nightly build, but please keep the tests as fast...
Posted: Jun 26 2008, 11:18 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Stopwatch snippet
A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab . Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets...
Posted: Jun 11 2008, 12:00 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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VS2008 DataDude and conditional deployment
This has taken us some time; depending on which environment you are, telling Visual Studio 2008 for Database Professionals Edition (or simply DataDude) what user it should use to deploy the SQL scripts, during an automated build. We're working with...
Posted: Jun 02 2008, 04:18 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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CopySourceAsHtml 2008
I was looking for CopySourceAsHtml for Visual Studio 2008, but for some reason it's not on the 'official' page so I had to search for it. There are multiple versions, but on Guy Burstein's blog there's more information and the only...
Posted: Apr 02 2008, 02:42 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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"Add service reference" is disabled
In Visual Studio 2008 you can right-click a project and choose for "Add service reference" to create a proxy class for your web service. WCF preferred, of course. But for some reason, the Visual Studio team disabled it when you're in debug...
Posted: Mar 28 2008, 09:14 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 2 comment(s)
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"How Do I?" Videos
When people want start learning about .NET in general or a specific subject like Silverlight or security, can be send to the "How Do I?" videos. I do this myself a lot of times, because a lot of videos aren't 60+ minutes. Just as a reminder...
Posted: Mar 12 2008, 08:59 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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Getting data from Excel the fast way, using LINQ
David , Alex and me just needed to get a load of data from some Excel sheets and work with the data. What's better than to load the data into a DataSet using OleDB and process it using LINQ to DataSets? Make sure you know what the format of your columns...
Posted: Feb 29 2008, 03:42 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Unit testing in Visual Studio 2008 tips
I blogged about new Unit Testing features in Visual Studio 2008 , but missed the following features back then. I thought it's still cool to share these with you. Short cut keys to run tests I used to use TestDriven.NET in the past for executing my...
Posted: Dec 11 2007, 04:30 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 6 comment(s)
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Compiling a .NET 3.5 project and running on a .NET 2.0 machine
For those that are still curious after my previous post about using C# 3.0 features in .NET 2.0 . You can compile any .NET Framework 3.5 project and run it in a .NET Framework 2.0 environment (read, no .NET Framework 3.5 installed) without any problems...
Posted: Dec 06 2007, 03:40 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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Using C# 3.0 from .NET 2.0
Yesterday I wrote an article on the property snippet in Visual Studio 2008 and that it had changed from Visual Studio 2005. Only a few hours later, I questioned myself if even a few people might be interested in this. Not because of the snippet, but because...
Posted: Dec 05 2007, 09:48 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 9 comment(s)
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Automatic properties and replacing the Visual Studio 2008 'prop' snippet
In .NET Framework 3.5, we've gained automatic properties. Automatic properties are really simple to understand. Instead of writing a full getter and setter with a private field (called a backing field, because it belongs to the property) you just...
Posted: Dec 04 2007, 12:24 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 3 comment(s)
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Turn off automatic updates with ClickOnce
I got an e-mail with the question how to turn off automatic checking for updates, when you're doing a manual check for updates with ClickOnce . Strangely enough I forgot to mention this in my previous article. The above dialog window can be obtained...
Posted: Nov 28 2007, 01:27 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 4 comment(s)
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Borrow and extend; Summer Class
When Microsoft takes a great idea from someone else, they always enhance it. They call this "borrow and extend". Take tabbed browsing for example, where you can view QuickTabs and get a screen with every open tab in a preview window. It seems...
Posted: Nov 23 2007, 02:07 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with no comments
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~Visual Studio 2005
Forget about VPC, VMWare and the likes, I finally got it on my laptop! Let's play... Oh, by the way, after I've finished Call of Duty 4. This game ROCKS! Technorati Tags: Visual Studio 2008 , .NET Framework 3.5 , .NET 3.5 , Team System
Posted: Nov 20 2007, 04:14 PM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 1 comment(s)
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.NET Framework 3.5 in February
Normally I get flooded with messages about stuff like the official release-date for .NET Framework 3.5. But since my Omea Reader database crashed (for the third time, but this time I can't find a solution to get it working again) and I still haven't...
Posted: Nov 05 2007, 10:10 AM by Dennis van der Stelt | with 7 comment(s)
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