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Continuous Integration: From Theory to Practice 2nd Edition
15 January 08 05:10 AM | cjlotz | 16 comment(s)
During last year I created a guide on implementing Continuous Integration (CI) for a .NET 2.0 development environment. The guide illustrates how to create a complete CI setup using VS 2005 and MSBuild (no NAnt) together with tools like FxCop, NCover, TypeMock, NUnit, Subversion, InstallShield, QTP, NDepend, Sandcastle and CruiseControl.NET. The good news is that I spend some time during the last 2 weeks greatly improving the setup for use on a new VS 2008 project and I have decided to release a 2nd...
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Izindaba #21
07 December 07 05:35 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 Parallel Extensions to the .NET Framework CTP - News from the BCL Team on the CTP and newly created Parallel Computing Developer Center . ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 2): URL Routing and ASP.NET MVC Framework (Part 3): Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views - Scott Guthrie continues with his series on the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. CTP coming soon! ASP...
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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...
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Further Thoughts on Adopting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008
27 November 07 04:07 PM | cjlotz | 7 comment(s)
In my current role as .NET technology consultant I am trying to do all the pre-work required to get the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 adopted as the .NET development standard for our company going forward. Here are some useful resources that I have come across that I would like to share with other teams that need to do the same thing in their corporate environments. Coding Standards Our existing coding standards is based on C# 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. I have now updated it to include support...
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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...
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Izindaba #17
09 November 07 05:11 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly round-up of developer news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content. .NET Top 10 things to know about VS 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 - Excellent post from Daniel Moth that brings together all the links to the yummy goodness that is .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 Debugger Visualisers for MethodInfo, DynamicMethod and MethodBase - Roy Osherove provides some cool debugger visualizers to view the IL generated for run-time DynamicMethods . How are value types implemented...
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Getting .NET Framework 3.5 and VS2008 Adopted
31 October 07 10:15 PM | cjlotz | 4 comment(s)
I'm currently trying to pro-actively drive the adoption of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VS 2008 within my company to start using it when it is released early next year. Our current standard is C#, using the .NET Framework 2.0 and VS 2005 SP1. We have a small portfolio of applications still running on .NET 1.1. Unfortunately we also have a big portfolio still running on VB6 . As part of the adoption I need to look at a migration roadmap for these applications and answer questions like: What's...
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Izindaba #14
19 October 07 05:52 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development content: Should I commit to Silverlight 1.1 or Flex - Jesse Liberty is struggling with a case of some Silverlight addiction LINQ to DataSet: Data Binding - Erick Thompson explores the data binding options for LINQ to DataSet query results. Also see the follow up post about the LinqDataView . Understanding the Difference between Owners and Schemas in SQL Server - An article that explains the concept of schemas...
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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...
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Izindaba #12
05 October 07 07:15 AM | cjlotz | with no comments
It is time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET, agile and general development related content: IIS 7.0 Hits RC0 - Scott Guthrie has the details on some really cool new IIS7 extensions that are now available. Also listen to the TechNet Radio Interview on IIS7 with Bill Staples. Building a ToJSON Extension Method using .NET 3.5 - Scott Guthrie shows how to use extension methods to add JSON serialization/deserialization to any .NET object. Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework...
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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...
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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...
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Izindaba #7
31 August 07 07:32 AM | cjlotz | 1 comment(s)
Time for another weekly roundup of news that focuses on .NET and general development related content: Lamda Expressions - The Basic Instincts column of the September 2007 issue of MSDN Magazine has a great article on lamda expressions that shows how the compiler uses a process called variable lifting to create a closure class to contain the free variables used in the lamda expression. Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows - Be aware, this may turn out...
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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...
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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...
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