Way back before .NET 4 Beta 1 shipped I created a hands on lab called Introduction to Workflow in .NET 4.  After several evolutions, this lab eventually ended up in the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit . Last week when I was teaching a workshop in...

Here is a little PowerShell script that will tell you if Windows Server AppFabric is installed edit 6/29 – thanks for the comments – this is a much cleaner script - Ron function IsWindowsServerAppFabricInstalled() { if (Get-HotFix -Id "KB970622"...

Look at this code… looks perfectly normal right?  In a code review, you wouldn’t notice anything amiss. var tags = new List<DataCacheTagContract>(); tags.Add( new DataCacheTagContract() { Tag = "tag" }); tags.Add( new DataCacheTagContract...

After months of using Visual Studio 2010 – today I finally realized that I had never taken advantage of the Multi-Monitor support.  I’ve been writing tests all day and what a great tool.  I can have the class that I’m testing open on one monitor...

If you really want to understand how something works.  Try creating an interface and then creating a stubbed implementation that behaves exactly the same way.  It’s a big job but wow – I’m learning so much about Windows Server AppFabric Caching...

After spending a few days writing a ton of code and heavily refactoring using TDD and Code Contracts I have to say… Wow! I know people like to debate the value of TDD, test first etc.  I don’t care what they say – this method rocks.  I found...

What to do if you get this error when unit testing Windows Server AppFabric Caching Being new to unit testing code that invokes PowerShell I ran into this problem when trying to test code that was using the Windows Server AppFabric Caching cmdlets. System...

What to do if your IIS Manager has no Deploy menu item Over the weekend I setup a new machine.  When everything was installed I opened the IIS manager and right clicked on the default website so I could deploy a package and… there was no “Deploy...

Last week I tried doing TDD with Windows Server AppFabric.  In my previous post I shared with you my conclusions.  To sum it up, doing TDD with AppFabric caching is painful; even more painful than using a database in your unit tests. Over the...