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Fri, May 25 2012 12:51

Automated Testing Isn’t Just for Business Logic

I had a conversation with Kelly Sommers the other day that was partially a short support group session on the annoying tendencies of development teams to completely lose focus on the architecture and design principles of a system and let the code base...
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Sat, Dec 11 2010 13:21

Unbind a Visual Studio 2010 Solution from Source Code Control

I was working with a solution that I got from someone else the other day.  When I loaded it up, Visual Studio 2010 informed me that it could not connect to a TFS server at some URL and will open the solution in offline mode (or something to that...
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Thu, Nov 4 2010 11:26

Testing Strategies Involving Async Functions

Some things to keep in mind when writing units tests for code that use async methods: You're not trying to test the framework's "awaitability" and you're not trying to test framework methods that are "awaitable". You want...
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Tue, Jun 15 2010 18:21

Visual Studio 2010, Enhance your Jedi Skillz

I’ve blogged about becoming a Jedi in Visual Studio 2008 before . Being a Jedi in Visual Studio means you focus more on adding value to the software you’re working with and less on the process of the IDE you’re doing your work in. Visual...
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Mon, May 24 2010 11:18

Using the dynamic Keyword in C# to Improve Object-Orientation

With polymorphism, object-oriented languages allow "...different data types to be handled using a uniform interface". Ad-hoc polymorphism is when you declare multiple methods of the same name but differ by the type of an argument. For example...
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Tue, Apr 20 2010 15:49

Modify VS 2010 Template to Reference System.Configuration

Almost every project I create in Visual Studio, I invariably have to add System.Configuration to the references for that project.  As soon as I want to do much with app.config, I need to use something in System.Configuration.  Well, rather than...
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Tue, Sep 2 2008 13:49

Becoming a Visual Studio Jedi Part 1

Becoming a Visual Studio 2008 (and often Visual Studio 2005) Jedi In much the same grain as James' Resharper Jedi posts, I'm beginning a series of posts on becoming a Visual Studio Jedi. It involves getting the most out of Visual Studio off-the...
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Tue, Apr 29 2008 9:08

Overcoming problems with MethodInfo.Invoke of methods with by-reference value type arguments

I ran into an interesting problem on the Forums recently. Basically, when you use MethodInfo.Invoke to invoke a method with by-reference value type arguments you can't have the invoked method update a variable/argument. The problem is, when you invoke...
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