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I installed to today the latest version of NDepend and gave it a try. Last time I blogged about NDepend , I used it on a small solution, and while the generated report was full of useful information, I did not use the product at full strength, because as it’s name suggests, NDepend is about analyzing...
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Roy Osherove listed advantages of NUnit over MsTest but also mentioned one MsTest’s strength that can be crucial for many developers: “the integration with other team system tools and reporting is just beyond compare and the reporting alone helps alot to find recurring breaking tests, code churn vs....
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On monday 19 january I gave a presentation to the dutch BizTalk User Group (BTUG) about he BizTalk Best Practices. The Best Practices are a set of components, a loosly coupled architecture and a software factory that supports the components and the architecture. The presentation went very well and for...
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… then it’s time to check the registry entries. Make sure you see something like this: In case the build runs in the context of a dedicated user, not the one who logs on to a build machine and install applications, then it is likely that the build user does not have correct setup for NUnit assemblies...
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If somebody wants more from the program you wrote, it’s a good sign. It means that at last you did something useful :-) Recently my colleague mentioned that the utility that I wrote to generate project solution file should support creation of solution folders. Our development team has in total...
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When you are working with the Guidance Automation toolkit, you are creating all kind of wizards yoursef. Currently I am in the middle of doing so and after adding a specific recipe to create a Biztalk Project I got the following error :" project creation failed " So I tried to create a BizTalk...
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This is a trick i learned today, if you have your web service returning JSON string to utilize on your ajax calls if you planned to connect to this service using server code (Web Reference) for internal facing app for example you have a problem. If you are using HttpModule to alter the content-type to...
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After installing Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010 on my laptop, I ran into the well-known message “The project location is not trusted”. I thought all I had to do was follow the instructions in this MSDN article to get my development share to be trusted again, but this doesn’t seem to work. I already...
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We are often too liberal adding project references. In our team I’ve sent once a warning that every time an assembly reference is added to a project, an angel gets killed, but Norway does not seem to be very religious country. Recently we’ve even had a problem with an assembly loaded in two different...
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I wanted to analyze our company projects with NDepend and ran NDepend on a couple of our solutions. While it produced very interesting reports (I will try to cover results of NDepend analysis in one of my following posts), I've found that the solution contents were not optimal for such analysis....
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Today we finally got acces to the SharePoint 2010(twenty - ten) sneak peak site, with 3 video's included which gives us a sneak peak to SharePoint 2010. And i must say, I amself really impressed! It's better for the business, who thought we could update items acquired via a webservice as it was...
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Yesterday I co-presented at the Dutch BizTalk User Group. It was a talk about the BizTalk Software Factory and I did the demo. Afterwards I got the question on how to set the icon on a guidance recipe, like in the picture below. I had to look it up in the code but I found it. By blogging it now it is...
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When trying to pass some command line arguments to a Console Application, I got the following message: "The current project settings specify that the project will be debugged with specific security permissions. In this mode, command line arguments will not be passed to the executable. Do you want...
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I’m reinstalling my laptop after I got it back from a repair… EMPTY (grrr). What tools shouldn’t I forget when preparing this laptop to be my development machine? Already have Visual Studio, SQL Management Studio, Office and the Windows Live tools installed… (and of course I have all kinds of tools at...
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I would like to reference to an old post that appeared in 2007 on http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint , that mentions the SharePoint debugger feature. I use it quite a lot and i am sure a lot of people don't know about its existance. Its a relatively simple feature that shows up in the SiteActions menu...