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I have been analyzing and estimating some Silverlight 4 and WPF projects recently, and will periodically get asked the question of what size of application is appropriate for utilizing the Model View ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. This is a great question,...
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As I was working on one of my personal learning projects, I encountered a small problem. The project was Prism based with multiple modules. I wanted to isolate my resource files, so I created a separate project that included my XAML resources, such...
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A couple months ago I wrote a post about a dirty way of aborting a Commerce Server catalog import which involved stopping SQL Server and various other invasive procedures. Tonight I found out there is at least one but maybe two ways of doing this, one...
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Since I started blogging again, I haven’t done any technical posts yet and I figured it’s about time. I have been using Visual Studio Database Projects since DataDude beta’s came out in 2005. A while ago, I was tasked with a database project that had...
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I will be presenting an overview of the Microsoft Axum language at the Sep 09 2010 meeting of the Twin Cities Languages User Group . If you’re in the area, drop on by! Visit the Twin Cities Languages User Group Web site for more information. Read More.....
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I have been working this week on setting up Team Foundation Server for a client and have also been investigating the use of the Scrum 1.0 Template for TFS. In working through the installation, there were some considerations to think through when setting...
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Message to Seniors: Math was always easy for me. I took calculus in high school and enjoyed it very much. However, during my post-graduate degree, I took an accounting class, which was very difficult for me to grasp. The whole double-entry idea was foreign...
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Today I would like to cover a specific use case that came up a few times in Silverlight applications I wrote. For example, I wand a user to enter some sensitive information, encrypt it in Silverlight client, transfer it over to the server, then...
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Imagine this scenario: It is a beautiful, sunny day with a cool breeze. You are walking down the street feeling on top of the world. Suddenly the person walking in front of you catches their foot and falls, scuffing their knee really bad. ...
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I attended the Windows Phone 7 Boot Camp hosted by Microsoft’s Jeff Brand in Minneapolis the other day. The event provided a good overview of the Windows Phone 7 platform, and the opportunity for some hands on development with the Windows Phone 7 Developer...
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Today as I was working on a Silverlight application in Visual Studio 2010, XAML Intellisense just stopped working for me. Quick internet search yielded no useful results, so I was to figure this out on my own. Just to test I created a brand...
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The Productivity Power Tools Extension for Visual Studio (VS) 2010 (for VS versions Professional and up) provides a number of excellent developer tools that can improve your efficiency developing software. I will review some of the main features and other...
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SQLSaturday brought to you by foursquare A few months ago, I had the pleasure and honor to help organize the first SQLSaturday in Chicagoland with Wendy (blog | twittter) and Ted (blog | twitter). Let me first say that I thoroughly...
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In my last post I am going to cover the last two topics I set out to address. The first topic is UI testing. What unit test frameworks lack sometime is the actually UI testing. What I mean by that is for example, click on a button, then...
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Looking back you realized where you made your first mistake. You thought it would work out differently; in fact, you knew it would. Alas, you believed the lie. Wait, let’s back up: Sweat mars your brow as you start to feel panic set in. ...
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Introduction A couple days ago I was working on creating some msbuild scripts for building my BizTalk solutions. I am not particularly knowledgeable about the way this is usually done. I checked out my friend (and fellow MVP) Michael Stephenson's CodePlex...
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Windows Phone 7 Developer tool beat has been released by Microsoft. You can download it here. Make sure to download and read release note available on the page above.
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In this post I will explore ability to mock various Silverlight classes in order to enable mocking in your unit tests. There is a variety of mocking frameworks available, but I will pick one for my testing – Moq. You can download the framework...
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In this post I will describe how to create asynchronous unit tests for Silverlight applications. First of all, I’d like to point out that any communication with a server component in Silverlight must be asynchronous. Reason being is that if...
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I am starting a short series of posts on unit testing of Silverlight applications. I will be using the following set of technologies. Microsoft Silverlight Unit testing framework that ships with Silverlight tool kit
Moq – mocking framework...
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Alright, alright, I haven’t posted in a long time (7 months or so). In my defense I have had some things going on. But someone has been bugging encouraging me to get back to it. I argued that I have better ROI spending time with them, when...
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At the MN Practical Agility user group earlier this month, I had the chance to present a very short Lightning Talk on Distributed Agile, and to participate a bit in the fishbowl discussions. It was a great opportunity for me to stretch by speaking in...
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Using Shelvesets in Microsoft Team Foundation Server can be a valuable and time saving technique. But leveraging and managing Shelvesets can get cumbersome. I recently had to extract changes from a Shelveset in one branch of code to another. How can this...
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