Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in General on Apr 20th, 2005
I keep finding new things to like about Google maps. First is was the drag-a-bility of the maps. Then the local search feature. Plus the satellite overlay is simple to cool for words. Today, I learned about the ‘to’ operator. If you want a quick simple map from one city to another try this. seattle [...]
Posted in Testing on Apr 19th, 2005
I finally had a chance to sit down and play with MbUnit last week. What is MbUnit you say? It’s a unit testing tool that works very much like NUnit. NUnit, in case you’ve been living in a cave for the last year or so, is the ‘standard’ unit testing software for .NET framework applications. [...]
Posted in General, Programming on Apr 16th, 2005
When the original Design Patterns (GOF) book was published back in 1995 it defined 20+ object patterns. These patterns, the book argued, were standard ways to combine objects in order to solve common software problems. Fast forward to 2005 and it becomes apparent that more and more software companies are choosing to implement patterns. And [...]
Posted in VisualStudio on Apr 15th, 2005
Rob Caron has a excellent post describing each of the upcoming Visual Studio editions. Nothing more to say, check it out.
Posted in General on Apr 15th, 2005
Jeremy Wright is a wonderful tour guide. We walked for miles around and about downtown Toronto last Wednesday night, with Jeremy spouting a non-stop stream of facts and trivia about Toronto. Pointing out a historic theatre here, the newest town plaza there, he was a natural host. It was a nice walk on a beautiful [...]
Posted in .NET on Apr 15th, 2005
I learned a new Visual Studio keyboard shortcut today. Hide all the tool-bars (including docked windows) with Shift-Alt-Enter. Show them again with the same combination.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2005
I’m watching the Prashant Sridharan (Microsoft) keynote here at VSLive. He is demonstrating all the new features of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). He just mentioned a feature planned for Version 2 of VSTS that caught my attention and I think is going to be very useful. Currently the VSTS Testing Version includes a huge [...]
Posted in Conference on Apr 13th, 2005
I’m staying in Toronto this week, I’m giving a talk at VSLive and staying in town for a few days. It turns out the Jeremy C. Wright, the prolific blogger and author of a new blogging book (Blog Marketing - McGraw Hill), is in town today too. We met a couple months ago at one [...]
Posted in General on Apr 2nd, 2005
When teaching or presenting I often need to launch an app quickly. If I know I will be using an application before the session then I will set up a shortcut or alias ahead of time. But there are many times when I want to run an ad-hoc demonstration. The Start/Run dialog is a quick [...]