System.Type and XML are the nuts and gum of the development world. You can stuff a System.Type into an XML file, but it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Sometimes you don’t have much choice. For example: Custom configuration sections in App.config/Web.config Handlers and modules in Web.config ProxyFactoryFactory, 2nd-level cache provider, database dialect, and […]
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We’ve all done it at one point or another. Our application throws an exception and we start wading through a standard Windows error dialog or a log file to examine the exception and stack trace. If you’re a ReSharper Jedi, you’ve probably copied the exception and stack trace to the clipboard and hit CTRL-SHIFT-E (IDEA) […]
It is with great pleasure that I announce psake v4.00, which you can download here. The project has grown up a great deal in the last few months. More projects are using psake for orchestrating their builds and we have more developers submitting patches. I’m really pleased with how psake is growing up. GitHub has […]
A few announcements… First the big one. Many people have been using psake – both the PowerShell 1.0- and 2.0-compatible versions – in production without any significant issues. For that reason, we have released psake v1.00 (compatible with PowerShell 1.0). The only difference between psake v1.00 and psake v0.23 is the version number. My friend, […]
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and ReSharper 4.1 were happily running and helping me develop software, but I wanted to try out the early drops of ReSharper 4.5, which you can find here. I didn’t want to disturb my existing install. So I went looking for a way to run ReSharper 4.1 and 4.5 side-by-side. JetBrains […]
Given the number of developers using Subversion, I’m surprised that no one on my blogroll has mentioned the new Subversion clients released in the last few weeks. Subversion, TortoiseSVN, and VisualSVN have all synchronized their version numbers on v1.5. I’ll talk about TortoiseSVN and Subversion changes. VisualSVN has some minor enhancements that basically expose the […]
A build automation tool… now with less XML… psake is a build automation tool written in PowerShell. It avoids the angle-bracket tax associated with executable XML by leveraging the PowerShell syntax in your build scripts. psake has a syntax inspired by rake (aka make in Ruby) and bake (aka make in Boo), but is […]
I’m writing some integration tests around the .NET PetShop, which has no tests whatsoever. Since the architecture is tightly coupled, you can’t really start writing unit tests effectively. You have to start applying Michael Feather’s techniques for breaking dependencies. Before doing that, I want some smoke tests around the application. That’s where WatiN comes in. […]
For those of you who missed it, JetBrains officially released ReSharper 4 last week. A list of new features can be found here. Most notably is full support for C# 3.0 and LINQ, but there are improvements in lots of other areas. (I’ll point out these improvements in the Becoming a Jedi screencasts. I’ve got […]
My third episode of Becoming a Jedi is live. In this episode, I start looking at ReSharper’s refactoring capabilities. Episode Listing Part 1 of N: Code Browsing streaming download Part 2 of N: Code Cleanup streaming download Part 3 of N: Refactoring I streaming download Streaming requires Silverlight 1.0 or higher. Download is via Microsoft […]
