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• FIX: Failed to Generate a User Instance …

  I generate my databases on the fly while using Active Record . Every time I start a new project and fire up the app to auto-gen the SQL Express DB I get this error: Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to failure in retrieving the user's Read More... Posted Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:44 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: SQL Server, Alt.Net

• New DimeCast Is Up: Spark Partials Part 1

  A new DimeCast is up Working with Partials in Spark: Part 1 . In this episode we are going to take a look at how to use Partials within the Spark View Engine. We will be taking a first look at partials and learn how we can setup our application to use Read More... Posted Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:29 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET, Agile

• New DimeCast is Up

  I have a new DimeCast up, Learning how to use Named Content Areas with Spark . I cover some basics on the usage of the named content areas as well as how to utilize the named content areas to help organize your content. Enjoy! Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:45 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET

• Suspending Resharper 5

  For those of you who don't know, ReSharper is no longer a Visual Studio add-in. Previously if you needed to disable ReSharper for whatever reason you could do so in the Add-In Manager in Visual Studio. You no longer can. Disabling ReSharper is now termed Read More... Posted Friday, December 04, 2009 9:27 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, Productivity, .NET, Misc, Agile

• Twin Cities Code Camp 7

  This Saturday, Twin Cities Code Camp 7 ! I'll be presenting on the awesome ASP.NET MVC and Spark View Engine implementation. Come on down, its free! Don't forget to register on the Code Camp website. :) See you there. * The text below was shamelessly Read More... Posted Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:39 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET, Events, Mocks

• Materials from HDC09 - Testing With Mocks Talk

  Below is a link to download the Testing With Mocks lightning round talk that I gave at the Heartland Developers Conference this last week. In order to get the samples to run you will need to have TypeMock Isolator installed. If you do not own a license Read More... Posted Sunday, October 18, 2009 11:07 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Tools, TDD, Alt.Net, MVC, .NET, Testing, Events, Agile, Mocks, Patterns and Practices

• Twin Cities Dev. Guild - Testing With Mocks Materials

  As promised, below you can download the presentation as well as code for the Testing with Mocks talk I gave this last Tuesday at the Twin Cities Developers Guild . Please note, in order to get the sample to build you will need to install TypeMock. They Read More... Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 11:01 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, Testing

• MDC 2009 Presentation

  For anyone who attended this years MDC 2009 and came to my presentation “ASP.NET MVC w/ Spark View Engine” knows that we had some _major_ technical difficulties. We could not get the projector to present via my laptop. To make up for this Read More... Posted Sunday, October 11, 2009 10:46 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET, .NET, Agile

• TypeMock 5.3.5 - WasCalledWithArguments

  I normally do not blog bile by reposting another sites news, but this news is rather importnat in regards to TDD with Isolator. I use Rhino Mocks 80% of the time for mocking, but that last 20% is Isolator. Why 20% - this is the real tough stuff to test. Read More... Posted Monday, September 21, 2009 8:17 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: TDD, Alt.Net, Continuous Integration, Mocks, Dependency Injection

• Auto-Creating Your DB with Active Record

  During some recent development the team I was experiencing some friction with databases and developing. We were using Castle Active Record and we soon realized that as new people joined the team, left the team (rinse, wash, repeat), db changes occurred Read More... Posted Monday, July 13, 2009 9:11 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, Design Patterns, Dependency Injection, Patterns and Practices

• New DimeCast: Exploring Expressions with Spark

  I have another DimeCast that went live this morning. This one is entitled “ Exploring Expressions with Spark .”. Here’s what we cover: ” We are going to take a look at the various different ways you can use Expressions with the Spark View engine. We are Read More... Posted Thursday, June 18, 2009 7:44 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET

• ASP.NET MVC without Installing the MVC Bits

  I was recently was helping out a collague with an ASP.NET MVC problem and I was given a link to a solution. I opened it and got this message: Which ends up giving you the following in the solution explorer. The reason I’m getting this is because I never Read More... Posted Monday, June 15, 2009 9:56 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, ASP.NET

• New DimeCast: Exploring how to use Global Vars & View Data in Spark

  I have a new DimeCast up! The title is above. In this DimeCast I cover …  how to utilize both global variables and local variables. We will also take a look at how to create and use both strongly typed viewdata and weakly typed view data. To view Read More... Posted Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:04 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, ASP.NET

• Spark Part 1 DimeCast Amendment

  In the latest DimeCast I recorded I developed the demo app while running the ASP.NET Development Web Server. A colleague of mine, Tim Schmidt , caught an error (thanks Tim). If you are going to run your ASP.NET MVC site on IIS 7 (which is highly likely) Read More... Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:39 PM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, MVC, .NET

• The new MarketWatch.com

  Over the last 5+ months myself (as well as thirteen other Magenic consultants) have been nose-to-the-grind-stone on a very high profile project. Due to the NDA at the time we were not allowed to state where we were working and on what we were working Read More... Posted Monday, May 18, 2009 9:05 AM from this.Reflect(); | 0 Comments Filed under: Alt.Net, ASP.NET, Web 2.0