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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:08 PM

Assert Messages Are Not Optional

...and now, in this week's episode of Zero-Friction TDD : Optional Assert messages that aren't optional anyway! Actually, this piece of advice comes almost directly from the xUnit Test Patterns book, so I was in doubt whether I should post it all, but
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Friday, December 12, 2008 4:00 PM

First Dynamics Mobile Post

Yesterday, I posted my first post over on the Microsoft Dynamics Mobile Team blog . More are likely to follow. In case you are wondering what this means for this blog, the answer is: Nothing. I plan to continue blogging in more or less the same vein as
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Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:55 AM

Why Use AreEqual<T>?

This is a post in my Zero-Friction TDD series. One of my colleagues recently asked my why I prefer Assert.AreEqual<T> over one of the non-generic Assert.AreEqual overloads for primitive types. In most cases, I'm very happy with the C# compiler's
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Monday, December 08, 2008 3:51 PM

3 Is Many

This is an installment in my Zero-Friction TDD series. When I was a kid, my parents taught me that many is any number above three two*; they used the simple counting sequence one, two, many . This little story may make me seem like I was an incredibly
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:04 PM

Creating Azure Tables From Script

When working with the Windows Azure Storage service, you must create the tables before you can use them; in essence, defining the 'schema' of your Azure storage service. On his blog, Steve Marx writes : "Probably the best solution is to have separate
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Monday, December 01, 2008 2:32 PM

testmethod Code Snippet

This is an installment in my Zero-Friction TDD series. If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may have noticed a certain pattern in my unit test examples (like this one ). This is because I always follow the Four-Phase Test pattern (which is a
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