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How to Add an Existing Project to TFS

alkampfer@nablasoft — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:50:42 +0000

This is a super basic and easy question, but I found quite often people asking me how to add an existing project to a TFS Team Project. It turns out that there are more than one way of doing this, but I usually suggests this simple path that is quite simple and is understandable from people that comes from the subversion world. Preview Text: A...

Find/Replace in Visual Studio using Regular Expressions

DJ_Link — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:38:11 +0000

Usually Find/Replace gets the job done for what I need, although sometimes using “Replace All” can break more stuff than it fixes. But today I had this function I wanted to get rid of and simply change it with a public variable. So I had something like this.object->setLayer(/*BLABAL BLA CODE, */);I want to replace it with something more simple Preview Text: ...

The Problem with Unit Tests

ayende — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:13:48 +0000

I am a strong believer in automated unit tests. And I read this post by Phil Haack with part amusement and part wonder. RavenDB currently has close to 1,400 tests in it. We routinely ask for failing tests from users and fix bugs by writing tests to verify fixes. But structuring them in terms of source code? That seems to be very strange. Preview Text: ...

Programming Language Popularity by SO and GitHub Cross-Ranking

johncook — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:32:07 +0000

Curator's note: Is this two-faceted method for determining language popularity a good metric. The correlation definitely helps its case but I know that Stack Overflow volume doesn't always indicate popularity, but rather, confusion. Also, RedMonk's charts are showing C# slightly ahead of Java on SO but on the tags page, you can see that C# has almost 60k more tags (almost 25% more) and the...

Automate Your DB Releases with TeamCity and Red Gate

troyhunt — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:16:44 +0000

Databases have long been the poor cousin of the application tier when it comes to many of the processes we take for granted in the .NET world. Source control management, for example, is near ubiquitous for application files and there are several excellent VCS products which make versioning a breeze. Preview Text: Database source control is no...

C# and Facebook

AmirAhani — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:29:35 +0000

You can interact with Facebook in C# by installing Facebook C# SDK dlls. The easiest way to do this is using NuGet. To add the reference, right click on “References”, and then click “Add Library Package Reference…”. From the Add Library Package Reference dialog do a search for “Facebook”. After the install completes click “Close”. Preview Text: ...

Visual Studio Live! - Las Vegas

peekb — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:11:25 +0000

I will be speaking at Visual Studio Live! in Las Vegas this March 26-30. The conference is a full 5 day event and there’s still time to register! If you use code VLSPK21, you can save a nice chunk of cash off the all-access Best Value Conference Package. The three sessions I’m presenting are: Preview Text: If you are going to attend VS...

KinectContrib 2.0 released - now supports Kinect for Windows SDK 1.0

dotCore — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:50:28 +0000

KinectContrib is a project I started, trying to extend the capabilities of the default Kinect for Windows SDK. As I am working on more complex components, I decided that it would be easier to start with something a lot of developers will need - Visual Studio templates that provide the skeleton for basic Kinect application types. Preview Text: ...

An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010

MrHinsh — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:28:47 +0000

Its hard for developers to work with testers and its hard for testers to work with developers. There are many tools out there to help teams break down those barriers between them and I really like both the features and workflow of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). While I am not a tester, I am a developer and the rich bugs that are produced by MTM help me reproduce that evasive bug and improves...

Test Driven Development(TDD) in C#

ayobami — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:49:47 +0000

There is such a great buzz about Test Driven Development(TDD) among the geeks and in the software industry that its being talked about in blog articles, conferences, code camps and so on and if as a developer you are not doing TDD you feel like you are doing something wrong and which in fact in the actual sense you are just writing legacy codes, shipping application full of...

Microsoft Announces C++ AMP Open Specification

cjsmith — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:31:52 +0000

We all know concurrency programming can be a pain, so why not make it easier on yourself? Back in June of 2011, Microsoft was already talking about its future release of C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), a new specification to be implemented in Visual Studio 11 and released as open source: Preview Text: Microsoft has announced a new...

Globalization and Localization with ASP.Net Web Applications

ayobami — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:34:42 +0000

Most websites on the internet today are designed and developed to support a single language and culture, but making a website or web application to support different languages and cultures is not difficult and is relatively easy to implement in ASP.Net. Preview Text: Most websites on the internet today are...

Windows Phone Local Database tip: Exploring multiple UPDATEs and rowversion impact

ErikEJ — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:39:09 +0000

According to the Local Database best practices, it is recommended to use a rowversion column in your local database table, if you are performing many updates. This blog post will examine the performance and changes to UPDATE handling that are caused by the presence of a rowversion column. But first, how to add a rovversion column: If you are using code first, this simple column declaration...

How to Set Up a Local NuGet Gallery

mceranski — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:26:13 +0000

First of all you may be wondering, why do I want my own local Nuget Gallery? Well, here are two reasons: Preview Text: In this article, Michael describes how to create a NuGet gallery. References Reference: How to Set Up a Local NuGet Gallery ...

Kick-start Your F# WPF Apps

dmohl — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:34:34 +0000

Over the last few years I've announced a number of project templates that are available on Visual Studio Gallery. A few of these have provided ways to kick-start F# WPF apps. Preview Text: Many WPF project templates are available in the Visual Studio Gallery, but most of the sample apps require more files than you may need (which can get...