Magenic Technologies Community Blog

Having worked with CruiseControl.Net for years, and understanding the slow adoption of that valuable tool due to simply too high learning path for soemone who needs to quickly setup an automated build system, TeamCity promised to be an interesting alternative. Naturally there is a TFS also, but the problem with the TFS is that it is huge, ...

As a part of upcoming CSLA.NET 3.6 beta 2 release we have added one more feature - Csla.Net Class Templates for VB.NET and C# integrated in Visual Studio 2008.  So for example, when you select "Add New Item" in Visual Studio you get following options:  Each of the class templates from the dialog above ...

With continuous integration being integrated into Team Foundation Server 2008 we can sometimes run into unexpected results. Such as extended build times.  By default the build file is set up to inform the TFS Build Agent that it should perform a ''Full Build''. What is a ''Full Build''? By default, when TFS performs a build the following ...

So what is Google Chrome?  It is a new Web Browser. But before you say: "Enough, I can't keep track of IE7/8, Mozilla, Safari, now I have to take a look at yet another browser!!!", there is something interesting and different about this one.  It appears that the Google team has been writting a browser from scratch, not ...

Working with CodePlex on one of the projects I was faced with dilemma – download TFS explorer to get the latest source code from their TFS server, or… I was about to give up and download/run a 300 TFS Explorer on my latest development VPC image (project required some beta MS tools; hence the VPC as a development platform, but that ...

  What is SPaDevToolkit?SPaDevToolkit is short for SharePoint Application Development Toolkit. It is an open source project created by yours truly and available on CodePlex. The project is a collection of libraries, tools, Visual Studio templates, packages and more focused on accelerating the development of custom code for SharePoint (MOSS ...

JSON is goodness for the browser, but I find it harder to read than XML (maybe I'm just used to the angle brackets??). I constantly find myself grabbing my JSON string out of the Firebug Console, pasting it into Visual Notepad ++ 9000 .NET™ (a.k.a. notepad.exe) and trying to visually parse it. With the help of "The Google", I ...

Lutz Roeder's Reflector is one of the best .NET tools ever, and it suprises me how many developers are unaware of it. If you have *not* seen it, go check it out; it is an invaluable tool for figuring out how stuff works! In that vein, I was reading through "Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for ...