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Thursday, March 29, 2007 10:05 AM

Design as If Testing Matters

To continue with the string of unit testing and Example Driven Design posts, here is another one: Gordon Weakliem has a post about designing APIs with testing in mind , which links to a James Robertson post on API Design as if Unit Testing Mattered .
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:12 AM

Unit Testing Rules

One of the internal Microsoft discussion lists on unit testing and EDD (TDD) had a thread where a person new to unit testing asked a couple of really good questions. In response, someone posted a link to an intersting post by Michael Feathers on A Set
Posted by mpuleio | 5 Comments
Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:31 PM

Unit Testing will be in Visual Studio Pro

It was publically announced today on Naysawn Naderi's blog that Unit Testing will be in the Pro SKU of the next version of Visual Studio . This is fantastic news that I am very excited to share.
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:09 AM

Creating a List of Examples (a.k.a. a Test List)

Brian has a great post on how to get an EDD (Example Driven Design) coding session started with a list of examples . Of course, Brian uses the terms "TDD" and "Creating a Test List", but the idea is the same. [Author's Note: Because TDD (Test Driven Design)
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Monday, March 26, 2007 6:58 PM

Web Application Project Guidance Package using Sub-Projects

Earlier today, I posted to the WCSF CodePlex Community Site a new code-only guidance package, Web Application Project Guidance Package using Sub-Projects . This guidance package uses the concept of sub-projects outlined on the Web Development Tools Team
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Monday, March 26, 2007 2:09 PM

CodePlex Source Control Client

The CodePlex team has announced the CodePlex Source Control Client on their blog today. There is a beta, which I recommend you download if you use CodePlex for source control. I have known about this effort for a while, and was approached as an internal
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Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:08 PM

Using the WCSF with existing web site projects

Note: This is a parallel post to Using the WCSF with existing web application projects . It will cover the same topics, with (almost) the same introduction and purpose for the other type of web project in Visual Studio 2005. We have what I would call
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:32 PM

What have we been doing with the Smart Client Software Factory Update?

Juan Arguello , one of the guys on the SCSF team, has been keeping track of what we have been working on. His post, Smart Client Guidance development , shares the details with everyone. Enjoy
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Monday, March 19, 2007 6:49 PM

Announcing: Web Client Software Factory Webcast

Through a few, lucky quirks of fate, Blaine Wastell and I get to do an MSDN webcast about the Web Client Software Factory on Wednesday, March 21 at 10:00AM PST. I'm looking forward to it. If you are interested in an overview of the factory, a few demos,
Posted by mpuleio | 1 Comments
Monday, March 19, 2007 5:43 PM

Questions for the Smart Client Software Factory Community

Right now, as a lot of you know, the Client Program team and I are working on an update to the Smart Client Software Factory. In working on this update, we have been trying to listen to the community for what will be in the update. Here is the current
Posted by mpuleio | 2 Comments
Friday, March 16, 2007 12:11 PM

Adopting the Web Client Software Factory in existing Web applications

Mariano has a post with a few great tips about Adopting the Web Client Software Factory in existing Web applications . This is a great follow on to my post yesterday about Using the WCSF with an existing Web Application Project .
Posted by mpuleio | 0 Comments
Thursday, March 15, 2007 6:34 PM

Using the WCSF with an existing Web Application Project

We have what I would call a great offering in the Web Client Software Factory. However, all of the guidance to date has been around using the WCSF in a green-field scenario, where you can start fresh. I know that in the real world, this is not often the
Posted by mpuleio | 11 Comments
Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:37 AM

Web Client Software Factory Fix for Add View with Presenter Recipe

The team was finally able to find a fix for this sporadic issue: occasionally the Add View with Presenter recipe would throw a ValueProviderException. This was apparently due to having two versions of the same DLLs loaded in memory at the same time. The
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:21 PM

Blog Spam is taking a toll

When I started this blog, I ensured that folks could post comments in response to my thoughts and ideas. However, I did set it up so that any un-authenticated user's comments needed to be screened before they became visible. In recent weeks, I have become
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Friday, March 02, 2007 2:05 PM

Send Instant Messages and Send Money to Charity

I'm usually not one for talking about socail issues and charity, even though I do take advantage of Microsoft's donation matching program, but this was too good of an idea not to talk about. There is a program that recently launched: i'm Making a Difference
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