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Very exciting news! Red Gate's .Net Reflector

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:15:25 GMT

Red Gate announced today that, under a new agreement, it will be responsible for the future development of .NET Reflector, the popular tool authored by Lutz Roeder.

Free eBook - Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET

Tue, 27 May 2008 21:34:14 GMT

I wrote a few articles for the Simple Talk Website (run by RedGate Software) over the past year and was honored to be included in the "Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET" eBook they just released. The book is a free PDF that covers a lot of different topics including:

Microsoft Pex - 0.5 Released

Wed, 28 May 2008 14:01:11 GMT

Great post into the new Microsoft Pex Unit Testing framework. Demostrates how what gets executed, the results and some on the initial cool features.

Project White: Automated UI Testing

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:31:02 GMT

Discussion about Project White automated UI testing framework.

Ben Hall's Blog: Introduction to XUnit

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:54:18 GMT

The basics on XUnit, a new testing framework with some cool features.

ASP.NET MVC - some source code

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:16:03 GMT

Some early MVC Demos Source Code from ScottHa :)

MVC or MVP Pattern - Whats the difference?

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:46:02 GMT

This awesome post explains differences between MVP and MVC patterns using VS Class Diagrams

"Click to Activate" in IE going away!

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:01:03 GMT

Update for IE to be included in Vista SP1, XP SP3 and standalone update available starting in December.

Test Driven Development with ASP.Net Model View Presenter Pattern

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:55:59 GMT

g very good overview of MVP and TDD

DevConnections - The ASP.NET MVC Framework

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:16:02 GMT

A nive powerpoint presentation about the new MVC Framework on scottha`s Blog

TDD is like snowboarding (or learning any new skill)

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 10:01:10 GMT

Snowboarding and TDD compared. Good post!

SubSonic, MVC and IronRuby

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:33:46 GMT

Chris Sutton talks about Microsoft's recent ASP.Net related hires and what the new .Net MVC stack is starting to look like.

Using .NET reflection to help test legacy code

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 05:15:16 GMT

an article about using .net refleciton to unit test legacy code.

Announcing MbUnitForms!

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:16:02 GMT

I've ported NUnitForms to run against the increasingly popular unit testing framework, MbUnit.

Framework to automatically UnitTest your Model

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:31:04 GMT

The author "Josh" created a kind of framework to automatically unit test the Model-Classes. "Stuff that nobody ever tests directly because it would be so time consuming." can now be tested with almost no afford. Read his article so you know why you want to test those domain classes

Good bye NUnit.Behave hello Behave#

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:31:02 GMT

Most of you who read my blog know that I have been working on NUnit.Behave which was meant to mirror the functionality of rbehave in .Net. My initial spike was a success but it required that you inherit from an base NUnit Test Fixture. Even I wouldn't use it! So I spent some time decoupling it from NUnit into it's own framework. At the same time my idea caught on and Jimmy Bogard decided to do the same thing. Well to make a long story short we have been collaborating on the differences between our two frameworks over the last week and have decided to go with Behave#. I love OSS, where else could this be possible!

Using RhinoMocks with StructureMap to mock expected

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:46:02 GMT

What do you do when you are writing a test for a piece of code that calls out to an 'out of your control' service such as a web service or email server? If you are like most of us, you simply allow your test to make the call and 'hope' that the service is up.

Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with Castle Windsor

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 05:46:02 GMT

First article of a 4 parts series about IoC and DI with Castle Windsor Container. This first part is an introduction to the core concepts and a simple example of how to start thinking in terms of IoC.

Getting with it: Test-Driven Development

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:01:02 GMT

Introduction to Test-Driven Development, from a developer who should have learnt sooner.

Efficiently Reusing Your Tests

Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:46:01 GMT

Here's a great way to efficiently reuse your testing code with the help of MbUnit.

ReSharper 3.0 Released

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:01:01 GMT

ReSharper 3.0 is finally out and it's better than ever. C#, VB.NET, XML, XAML or ASP.NET

Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days - Miguel de Icaza

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:31:02 GMT

Moonlight - Silverlight implementation in Linux

MbUnit 2.4 RTM

Fri, 25 May 2007 19:16:01 GMT

"After over 6 months of hard work the MbUnit 2.4 went to RTM tonight. Between the RC and the RTM."

The right way to think about source control

Thu, 17 May 2007 02:01:01 GMT

Source code control is not just a fancy version of File -> Save...

Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs' secret love

Sat, 05 May 2007 06:35:45 GMT

These are from a new Sketch show here in the UK called Ruddy Hell! It's Harry and Paul.