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Thursday, June 12, 2008 4:55 PM

Speaking in ANUG

Aarhus .NET User Group has been so kind to invite me to come and give a session on June 25th, 2008, and I've elected to speak about TDD and Installers, a subject that regular readers of this blog would correctly surmise is dear to my heart . Read more
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:25 PM

Leapling

Something's been bugging me for all of March. Okay, so maybe not all the time, but it keeps coming back to me. Back at February 29, I took my daughter to kindergarten as always. In one of the other rooms, a sign (as well as flags and such) proclaimed
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Friday, February 29, 2008 11:52 AM

New Job

When I start working April 1 after my parental leave, I'm not going back to my old job as a consultant for Microsoft Services . Instead, I've accepted Christian 's old position in the Mobile Applications Group in Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 4:24 PM

Page.User Population From Custom Authenticators For ASP.NET

One of my readers have asked me how to create a custom authenticator for ASP.NET and populate Page.User accordingly. Basically, the scenario is that they have a third-party service that performs authentication and returns the user's identity and other
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 10:04 PM

Speaking at TechEd Developers 2007

Again this year, I'll be presenting at TechEd Developers in Barcelona next month. This year, I'll be doing both a general session on mocks, as well an interactive session on TDD. You can read more on these sessions by using the conference's Session Search
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Friday, June 08, 2007 10:44 AM

Speaking In June

At the upcoming Softwareudvikling på tværs conference, I'll be presenting a session on TOOD on the second day (June 14). The session will be held in Danish.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007 12:37 AM

Hello World

private static void Main( string [] args) { Person father = new Person (); Person mother = new Person (); Person girl = new Person (); Person boy = mother.Emit(mother.Union(father), new DateTime (2007, 4, 21)); girl.PromoteTo( Rank .BigSister); mother.Condition
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Sunday, April 01, 2007 7:37 PM

BPL

Although my daughter is now 4½ years old, she still can't write code. Some may say that it's because she has not yet learned to read and write in general, but we at Microsoft know differently: Even though our current development tools are very productive
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Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:46 PM

How Will LINQ Impact Database Development Best Practices?

Ever since I first heard about the LINQ project , I've been wondering how this would fit in with our best practices for database development. Slowly, I think I've arrived at an interim conclusion. Since this posting deals with future developments in best
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Friday, February 09, 2007 1:03 PM

A Generic IAsyncResult Implementation

Lately, I've found myself writing implementations of IAsyncResult more than once, and as it turns out, all of those implementations have been so similar that I have ended up creating a generic implementation. When implementing the Async Pattern, you can
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:55 PM

TechEd Aftermath

With TechEd: Developers long over, I thought I'd post a few links to the residue I left in my wake :) Jeff and Scott apparently found my session useful: http://blog.usingtangent.net/2006/11/tech-ed-unit-testing-best-practices.html . While I was at TechEd,
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Friday, October 06, 2006 2:56 PM

Speaking at .NET Days 2006

The week after speaking at TechEd , I'll be giving a talk at .NET Days 2006 in Århus. In this talk , I'll be talking a bit about data access component testing. In my terminology , these are not unit tests, but integration tests, but that does not mean
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Friday, September 29, 2006 2:33 PM

Bugs On Purpose

The Ative guys has a blog with a lot of insightful development project gotchas. This one , in particular, made me chuckle. Although I've never had to introduce bugs on purpose into a system, I think this is is a very elegant solution to the described
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Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:27 PM

Speaking At TechEd, Barcelona

TechEd Developers 2006 is in Barcelona in November, and I have had the honor of being invited to deliver a talk on unit testing best practices using Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Since breakout sessions at Microsoft conferences are always one hour and
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Monday, July 31, 2006 10:25 PM

IComparable Implies Transitivity

Lately, I've been doing comparisons of DateTimes and TimeSpans, and I've been sorely missing functionality for working with ranges, selecting the minimum and maximum, etc. Since both types implement IComparable<T>, I got to think about if I should
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