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• Funq: applying TDD to build a dependency injection container you can understand

  Posted on January 30, 2009

  I’m planning to record a series of screencasts which will serve as walk-throughs on how to apply TDD on a practical project consisting in building a full-featured and high-performance DI container which has two very explicit goal: minimalistic design and small footprint. [Read More]

• Beware of DateTime comparison when using DateTimeKind.Local vs DateTimeKind.Utc

  Posted on January 26, 2009

  Oh, DateTime is so hopelessly broken… public void BewareLocalAndUniversalDoNotEqual() { // This gives you a local time. DateTime now = DateTime.Now; DateTime utc = now.ToUniversalTime(); Assert.AreEqual(now, utc); } [Read More]

• Evolving an API without breaking clients via extension methods, ObsoleteAttribute and EditorBrowsableAttribute: Part II

  Posted on January 11, 2009

  Evolving an API without breaking clients via extension methods, ObsoleteAttribute and EditorBrowsableAttribute [Read More]

• Evolving an API without breaking clients via extension methods, ObsoleteAttribute and EditorBrowsableAttribute

  Posted on January 8, 2009

  API evolution is tough and versioning is a complex enough issue that deserves not one but several posts. So I will only focus on one specific kind of evolution and backwards compatibility: Source Compatibility. [Read More]

• How to create and run Compact Framework unit tests with VS2008 and TestDriven.NET

  Posted on December 31, 2008

  Unlike VS2005, where you didn’t have a unit testing framework for the .NET Compact Framework (and that’s the reason why we had to create one for the Mobile Client Software Factory), VS2008 (Team System Test or Suite editions) comes with the same test framework you probably use for desktop applications. [Read More]

• PDC Essentials @ Buenos Aires

  Posted on November 17, 2008

  On Tuesday 18th, Victor and I will be presenting A Lap Around VS2010. Check which other talks are available and register here. [Read More]

• XmlSerializerFactory caching issues and leaks

  Posted on November 13, 2008

  You’d think that after the serious leaks people was hitting with the XmlSerializer, the “new” (in .NET 2.0!!! but which many seem to forget about, just like AVOID doing new XmlTextReader in a PDC keynote) XmlSerializerFactory would do away with those. [Read More]

• Weird procedure to activate Windows 2008 from MSDN subscription

  Posted on October 25, 2008

  I kept getting a “Activation Error: Code 0x8007232b DNS Name does not exist” error whenever I tried to activate Windows 2008 Standard (which has been running great on my X61 laptop so far as the host OS!). [Read More]

• How to use Windows 2008 on your laptop

  Posted on October 21, 2008

  Follow all the tips from Windows 2008 Workstation site. Microsoft has a KB article also that is useful. Get Windows Live Messenger bare MSI from Softpedia (it’s a MS-signed installer, worked just fine for me) How to get Windows Live Writer on Windows 2008: this was a bit trickier, and involves importing a few registry keys (just copy the registry keys to a .reg file and import it). First you need a machine with WLW installed. Copy the entire folder to the new machine. I copied it to %ProgramFiles%\Windows Live\Writer, which is where it’d go if I could run the... [Read More]

• Automocking container with Moq

  Posted on October 13, 2008

  I realized that I never blogged about this cool feature contributed by Slava to Moq-Contrib. [Read More]

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