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6 Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Tips for Unit Testing Silverlight, WP7, and WPF
My article for Visual Studio Magazine just went live. “6 Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) Tips: Leverage ViewModel and Unit Test Silverlight and WP7 Apps” Here are the tips: 1. Separate the Model from the ViewModel, no matter what 2. The classes from “Add Service Reference” are not your Models or your ViewModels 3. Separate your ViewModel and…
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System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Refresh-VMHost, WMI Providers, and the Wifi Card
I got a new laptop a few months ago and, since day 1, I’ve been trying to get System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 (SCVMM) installed on it so that I could run Team Foundation Server 2010 Lab Management. Getting SCVMM installed was fine but when I went to associate my Hyper-V host (aka. The…
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Silverlight 4 Coded UI Tests + IE9: “No Silverlight controls were detected.”
I was playing around with the new (well, new-ish) Silverlight 4 Coded UI Tests that came with Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 this weekend. I trying to create a Coded UI test using the recorder and kept getting the following error: No Silverlight controls were detected. Verify that the application under test is built…
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Silverlight 4 Coded UI Tests + IE9: “No Silverlight controls were detected.”
I was playing around with the new (well, new-ish) Silverlight 4 Coded UI Tests that came with Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 this weekend. I trying to create a Coded UI test using the recorder and kept getting the following error: No Silverlight controls were detected. Verify that the application under test is built…
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Beantown .NET Meeting, 2/3/2011: Bob German, "SharePoint 2010 Development"
Beantown .NET is going to be meeting Thursday, 2/3/2011. This month we have Bob German presenting “SharePoint 2010 Development for .NET Developers”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring your boss. Please RSVP by email (beantown@benday.com) by 3pm on the day of the meeting…
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Top 4 Reasons Why a Shared Development Database is Evil.
It’s pretty common. A development team will frequently have one instance of SQL Server — filled with data from production — that all the devs use to develop and test the next version of the application. It’s one of those things in software development that feels like “common sense”. Of *course* you’re going to have…
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How do I think about unit testing Silverlight? What’s my process? (Part 1)
My job as a software consultant can be a little vague. Sometimes I’m coaching a team. Sometimes I’m training a company on how to use Team Foundation Server (TFS). Sometimes I’m an architect or developer. The thread that seems to go through all of these different types of work is that I’m almost always evangelizing…
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How do I think about unit testing Silverlight? What’s my process? (Part 1)
My job as a software consultant can be a little vague. Sometimes I’m coaching a team. Sometimes I’m training a company on how to use Team Foundation Server (TFS). Sometimes I’m an architect or developer. The thread that seems to go through all of these different types of work is that I’m almost always evangelizing…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on Thursday, 1/6/2011–Richard Hale Shaw, “On Time and Under Budget”
Hi All – Beantown .NET is going to be meeting Thursday, 1/6/2011. This month we have Richard Hale Shaw presenting “On Time and Under Budget: How to Stop Missing – and Start Meeting – Software Project Deadlines”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring…
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Beantown .NET Meeting on Thursday, 1/6/2011–Richard Hale Shaw, “On Time and Under Budget”
Hi All – Beantown .NET is going to be meeting Thursday, 1/6/2011. This month we have Richard Hale Shaw presenting “On Time and Under Budget: How to Stop Missing – and Start Meeting – Software Project Deadlines”. As always, our meeting is open to everyone so bring your friends and co-workers – better yet, bring…
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