Being Scott Densmore

Peter Provost has started a grass roots movement (aka petition) here to include Unit Testing in all the versions of Visual Studio. Now seeing that I am an Microsoft Employee, I feel I must put in my 2 cents to defend the position of only including this...

After reading this post by Brad Abrams on source code organization, I have given this some thought. I agree with Brad and how source code is organized. Visual Studio even supports this organization in C#. In PAG we really don’t follow any sort of...

What makes a good tester? I have pondered this question for a while. I love testers because the make my code so much better, and I think they are extremely fascinating creatures J . In a current project that we are working on, we have invoked the power...

.84 was a huge performance improvement. I am hoping that this will even be better. My question of the day… will I miss this in Whidbey?

Looks like Jim Newkirk has put on his flame suit and headed out into the fire here on the unit testing debate. Since I work with Jim you can only imagine that I share his position.

Resharper can give you fits when you install so here is a fix if you get a problem when you don’t get the coloring and keyboard shortcuts. Uninstall and then delete the directory c:\Docuements and Settins\[Your User Name]\Application Data\JetBrains...

Congrats to my fellow teammates. Go out and spread the news, SCAG is here. (Not to be confused with SCAB J .) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnpag/html/SCAG.asp

I have been using Resharper for a while and until now I have stopped using it, but with version .83 I am very excited. Extract method is here… and it works. I am still a little upset with the loading of the solution and it seems to take a while...

My friend in test asked me if I would post this to get some traffic. You guys should check this out, these guys are really smart. They would love feedback and direction. Microsoft patterns and practices test team is currently working on developing guidance...

From Michael Howard , we now have the RSS feed for Microsoft Security Bulletins. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/secrss.aspx .

I always wanted to compile a list of information on internationalization, and now I don’t have to do this. Scott Hanselman has done it for us all here . Thanks Scott.

Please help me welcome Jim to the “Real World” J .