Introduction I recently read Beautiful Code which contains articles from several well known programmers about the code they consider beautiful.  In Top Down Operator Precedence, Douglas Crockford discusses the Pratt Parser (named after Vaughan Pratt who...

A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery, CodePlex and now NuGet. This release contains the following changes: Features 1. Chutzpah is now able to run Jasmine tests in addition to QUnit. This was a large … Continue reading...

I work on websites where we have several resource files that are localized in many languages. This makes operations like renaming a resource key and moving a resource key to a different file annoying since you must do it across … Continue reading...

A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery, CodePlex and now NuGet. This release contains the following changes. 1. Added the Chutzpah console runner as a NuGet package. Once installed the Chutzpah.Console.exe file will be located...

My co-worker Matt Wrock released an open source project on GitHub and Nuget called RequestReduce.  It is a very quick and easy way to dramatically improve the performance of an ASP.NET website. We use this library for our sites at … Continue...

Several months ago I wrote this post which shows an extension method for inheriting the mappings on a base type for a child type in AutoMapper.  Since then I have had a few comments on the post which led me … Continue reading →

A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery and CodePlex. This release contains the following changes: Added a “Run JS Tests in Browser” menu option inside of Visual Studio. This will open your default browser and … Continue reading...

A while ago I posted the code I use to create a custom PowerShell prompt to show the status of my Mercurial repositories. Since then I have also started using Git so I updated my prompt to work for both. … Continue reading →

In Firefox 4 a security fix was added which prevents linking between anchors within an IFrame that does not have scroll bars. This change breaks the scenario where you have an IFrame that has a “Go To Top” link (<a … Continue reading →

I just released to CodePlex and the Visual Studio Gallery a new project called Chutzpah. Chutzpah is an open source JavaScript unit test runner which helps you integrate JavaScript unit testing into your website. It enables you to run JavaScript …...

Function overloading is very common in many programming languages like C# but most of the languages that I have used only support overloading based on function arguments. For example in C# there are several overloads on the String.IndexOf function where...

Snippet Designer 1.4.0 has been released. You can get it from its CodePlex page, on the Visual Studio Gallery or through the extension manager in the Visual Studio IDE. Snippet Explorer Changes Reworked  language filter UI to work better in … Continue...

I released version 1.2 of the DiffPlex library on both CodePlex and Nuget. This new version contains a few notable changes. A new class called InlineDiffBuilder which makes it easier to build inline diffs (the same way the existing SidebySideDiffBuilder...

Imagine this situation (one I’ve been in too many times): you have been working on a piece of code and have created a complicated/intricate function. You look over your work and realize it is an ugly mess; the function is … Continue reading →

A regex tester is one of those tools developers often need. I used many different ones over the years and  have never settled on one that I really like.  I have seen some paid ones that looked promising but I … Continue reading →

A while back I posted Converting RTF to HTML which showed how to convert RTF text into HTML markup using the WPF RichTextBox control.  Since then I have noticed many posts on forums asking for a free and easy way … Continue reading →

During my work on the latest version of the Snippet Designer I was struggling with solving an issue with the EnvDTE method ItemOperations.NewFile. The purpose of the NewFile method is to create a new file in the same manner as … Continue reading...

Snippet Designer 1.3.1 is a bug fix release which contains fixes to three important bugs. CodePlex Page: http://snippetdesigner.codeplex.com/ Visual Studio Gallery Page: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/B08B0375-139E-41D7-AF9B-FAEE50F68392...

I recently found this tool called Visual Event which helps you view and inspect all events attached to DOM elements on a web page.  I have wanted a tool like this for a long time.  Often when programming with many … Continue reading →

AutoMapper is a useful library that makes it easy to map properties between two types. You can declaratively define how you want properties mapped or just let it map based on simple conventions (like matching property names).  While working with …...

My co-worker Matt Wrock wrote an excellent blog post about using ADO.NET transactions in conjunction with NHibernate transactions/sessions.  This was a problem our team encountered since we are beginning the arduous transition towards using NHibernate...

About the Game My first Windows Phone application, Water Pipes, has just been published to the Marketplace.  You can download it to your Windows Phone by searching for “water pipes” in the Marketplace or, in the Zune software. Water Pipes...

OpenWithTest 0.4 has been release on the Visual Studio Gallery. If you already have it installed you should get an update in your extension manager. Release Notes Added an OpenWithTest toolbar button. This button allows you to quickly enable and …...

Stop! If you are looking for a full featured JavaScript stubbing/mocking library you will be thoroughly disappointed by this post. There are many really good and full featured frameworks for this such as QMock , JSMock and my current personal …...

F# is a multi-paradigm language which lets you program in both a functional pure manner and a imperative mutational way. With F#’s growing popularity many .NET programmers are trying out the language and are able to get started quickly because …...