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Izindaba #20
30 November 07 05:48 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET .NET Web Product Roadmap (ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS 7) - Scott Guthrie announces the upcoming initiatives and releases for .NET web development for the months ahead. Silverlight 2.0 Beta with Go-live license Q1 2008! So glad they decided to rename to 2.0 and not stick with 1.1. Advanced C# - Free chapter from the C# 3.0 in a Nutshell book published by O'Reilly...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Learning, Linq, C#, VisualStudio, SOA, Coding, SQL

Izindaba #19
23 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 shipped! - Just in case you missed the announcement Any idea on how long we will have to wait for our MSDN Subscriber DVD's? Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008 - The top 10 new features according to the Visual Basic Team. Nov 17th Links: ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS 2008, .NET 3.5, IIS7, Silverlight - Scott Guthrie...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Ajax, Silverlight, Dsl, VisualStudio, ASPNet, CLR, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, VB.NET, SQL

Izindaba #18
16 November 07 05:06 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. (Izindaba = Zulu for News). .NET ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 1) - Scott Guthrie builds an e-commerce store application to illustrate how to use the cool new ASP.NET MVC Framework So Many Tools - So Little Time! - Jesse Liberty tries to summarize when to use what tools for doing Silverlight 1.0 and 1.1 development. Code Metrics as Check-in Policy - The Code Analysis Team shows how to prevent...

Filed under: SDLC, TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Silverlight, Orm, ASPNet, CLR, Architecture, SQL, DynamicCodeAnalysis, Misc

Izindaba #13
12 October 07 05:54 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Optimizing SQL Server CPU Performance - Nice TechNet article on the topic from Zach Nichter. What's new in SQL Server 2008 Part 1 , Part 2 and Part 3 - Short series of articles that highlights all the new SQL Server 2008 features from Don Schlichting. 8 October: ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight links - Another set of links on these different technologies from Scott Guthrie. FxCop 1.36...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Ajax, Silverlight, VisualStudio, ASPNet, SOA, SQL, WCF

Izindaba #11
28 September 07 08:02 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Armchair Agilist - Scott Bellware expresses his frustration with folks from within the .NET Community who keep on criticizing agile development without having done any actual agile development themselves. Why Fixed Price, Scope Bids Are Incompatible With Software Development - A thought provoking post by Mats Helander. Continuous Testing Explained - The future of TDD? Everything Is Fast...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Ajax, VisualStudio, StaticCodeAnalysis, Coding, DynamicCodeAnalysis, Astoria

Izindaba #9
14 September 07 08:25 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: Visual Studio to Finally Address Performance Issues - InfoQ links to a Channel 9 Video on the performance improvements made to the VS 2008 IDE. LINQ to SQL: Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the control - Scott Guthrie continues with his LINQ to SQL series. Programming Silverlight 1.0 with C#: Part 1 - Nikhil Kothari shows how to use Script# instead of Javascript to build an application...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Linq, Silverlight, VisualStudio, IoC, ASPNet, Ruby

Izindaba #8
07 September 07 07:47 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Beta White Paper Counting Wastes Time and How Are You Going To USE That Information - Some thoughts from Fred George on collecting metrics and using metrics in an Agile development environment. Scott Bellware expands on his thoughts with reference to BDD. 20 Tips to Improve ASP.NET Application Performance - Nice list of ASP.NET performance enhancement tips. MbUnit 2.4...

Filed under: TDD, Agile, C#, Silverlight, Orm, ASPNet, BDD, DDD, Frameworks, Teamwork, OS, Misc, Mono

Izindaba #6
24 August 07 07:43 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: NUnit 2.4.3 Released - Another update that includes mostly bug fixes. SketchPath - A XPath development and XML analysis tool. PowerShell Toolbox - Collection of PowerShell links. LLBLGen Pro v2.5 Released - Frans Bouma reports on the new features in the latest release of this .NET ORM. Mocking Linq: Preview - News from Eli Lopian on the forthcoming support for mocking LINQ queries from the TypeMock...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Object-Orientation, Learning, Linq, Ajax, Orm, VisualStudio, IoC, ASPNet, Ruby, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, Javascript, Powershell, XML

Izindaba #5
17 August 07 07:33 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: What's new with VS 2008 Express Editions - Somasegar highlights what VS 2008 features made it into the Express Editions. New VS 2008 Spelling Rules - The Code Analysis Team blogs about the FxCop spelling rules that have been included in VS 2008 Code Analysis. Expression Suite to run on Apple Computers? - Leon Bambrick has the scoop. SQL Server 2005 TableDiff GUI - GUI for the new SQL Server 2005...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Linq, Orm, VisualStudio, ASPNet, Frameworks, StaticCodeAnalysis

Izindaba #4
10 August 07 08:01 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: VS 2008 Beta2 Fixes - Scott Guthrie on issues discovered with Beta 2 and workarounds for the issues. One Mock per Test - Some TDD advice from David Laribee Applying Agile to Ruby - Steve Eichert links to a talk by Fred George from ThoughtWorks on how important many of the core agile practices are when working with a dynamic language like Ruby. Domain Model Test Helper - Test helper that provides...

Filed under: TDD, Agile, Linq, Orm, VisualStudio, Ruby, BDD, DDD, Teamwork, StaticCodeAnalysis, SOA

Izindaba #3
03 August 07 07:26 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content: VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements - Scott Guthrie on some improvements made to editing code within VS 2008. Nice to see they are incorporating some of the functionality and ideas from existing excellent add-ins like ReSharper . ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 - Scott Guthrie on what version of ASP.NET AJAX will be supported in the final VS 2008 and on a minor issue and workaround with the current...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Linq, Ajax, VisualStudio, ASPNet

Izindaba #2
27 July 07 07:31 AM | cjlotz | with no comments

Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content: VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 Beta2 Released - Scott Guthrie has all the details that includes the links to his previous posts that cover all the great new features. Beta2 includes a Go-live license. Windsor IoC Container - Jeffrey Jarrell has an introductory post on using the Windsor container from Castle Project for inversion of control . More in-depth tutorials on using Windsor are available here . Script Class...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Agile, Learning, Ajax, VisualStudio, IoC, DLR, Hardware, WinForms

Izindaba #1
20 July 07 12:34 PM | cjlotz | 2 comment(s)

I try to publish a short, weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and MS development related content internally to the .NET community within my company . I've decided to publish this on my blog as well. I'll call these posts Izindaba ( Zulu for news) to give it a local SA flavour Here is the first public issue: VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging - Scott Guthrie on the excellent VS 2008 Javascript debugging features. C# 3.0 language features - Jeremy Miller links to some articles that shows...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools, Learning, Linq, C#, Ajax, Dsl

Using a DSL to create a fluent interface for unit testing your domain model
09 January 07 08:52 AM | cjlotz | 10 comment(s)

Martin Fowler's recent post on ExpressionBuilders had me smiling as we ran into a similar problem at work last year. It is great to see that our solution closely mirrors the ExpressionBuilder solution he writes about. We even named our classes Builders as well Anyway, I've been wanting to blog about it for quite a while now. Problem The problem we needed to solve was how to effectively unit test our domain model that we created using the principles highlighted in Domain Driven Design . The...

Filed under: TDD, Dsl

UnitRun - free .NET unit test runner
02 November 06 09:30 PM | cjlotz | with no comments

The kind folks at Jetbrains have just released UnitRun - a free .NET unit test runner that runs within VS 2005. The unit test runner was originally released as part of version 2 of their flagship ReSharper refactoring/productivity product, but it seems like they decided to make this bit available to the community for free. The tool allows interactive debugging within VS 2005. It also allows profiling of your code by integrating with one of their other products dotTrace . You need a separate license...

Filed under: TDD, DeveloperTools