DotNetSurfers

A tweet this morning from David O’Hara about wanting something on the lines of Autospec for Visual Studio motivated me to look into the Test Impact Analysis feature in Visual Studio 2010. Test Impact Analysis allows you to… Read the rest

When I recently purchased a Macbook Pro, I had a couple of options to set up my .Net development environment on there. I could use a Virtual Machine based solution such as Parallels or VMware Fusion, or… Read the rest

It all started when I got my new IPhone (3gs) about a month ago. I had been using a Nokia E71 since the start of this year, and have owned a couple of Windows mobile based phone before that. To… Read the rest

At the C# SIG meeting in Dallas last week, David mentioned something really interesting about using a productivity add-on such as ReSharper or CodeRush. I think his exact quote was:

“If your not

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I just came back from the Big Design Conference held today in Dallas, and my brain is just flooded right now with all the information I picked up on different design and development topics. It was one of… Read the rest

I gave a brownbag presentation at my current client recently about the common tools (in addition to Visual Studio), that I use on a regular basis for working with .NET or web development in general. I also threw in some… Read the rest

Just follow these simple steps ( I am using the Ajaxcontroltoolkit library as an example here)

1. Download Sandcastle (http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle).

2. Download and install Sandcastle Help File Builder (http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=SHFB).

3. Check http://www.ewoodruff.us/shfbdocs/Index.aspx?topic=html/8c0c97d0-c968-4c15-9fe9-e8f3a443c50a.htm for other requirements. If… Read the rest

I was one of the participants last week at the We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend here in Dallas. The event was organized very well by Toi Wright with support from MS Developer Evangelist Read the rest

Just wanted to mention that JavaScriptSerializer, which was marked as obsolete in .Net 3.5, seems to be restored back to normal status with SP1. Besides checking in the object browser, the only confirmation I found for this… Read the rest

I just came back after attending the developer track at Dallas TechDays. It was a really good session. Zain Naboulsi was the main presenter, and man can this guy talk! He gave a 3 part presentation by himself… Read the rest