11 Nov
2007

Unit Testing Irritants in Visual Studio 2008

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , , :6 Comments on Unit Testing Irritants in Visual Studio 2008

I have been delving into the unit testing capabilities of Visual Studio (sans NUnit), otherwise known as MSUnit. In truth, MSUnit is a name the community came up with. The entire contents of the unit testing framework are in this namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting Overall, there is more to the unit testing capabilities baked into the IDE […]

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10 Nov
2007

Rogue SearchIndexer Process

By: David Starr Category:General PostTag: , :

Son of a nutcracker! I mean, really! Take a look at this screen shot from my services applet. The back story on this is that I had manually disabled the Windows Search Service (not set it to manual, mind you) because it sucks up enough resources to choke a Cracker Barrel regular. After turning the […]

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10 Nov
2007

Parallels + Boot Camp + (Vista * Leopard) != Bliss -> Yet

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: , :1 Comment on Parallels + Boot Camp + (Vista * Leopard) != Bliss -> Yet

I am done fighting the different configurations of these three products on my MacBook. At this time I simply cannot get Parallels to run my base Vista image as a virtual. It is apparently  problematic for others running Leopard and the Parallels team is working on a fix. I may try again in the future, […]

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9 Nov
2007

Widgets of Wisdom IV

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: :

If you aren’t familiar with the Widgets of Wisdom feature, see the explanation and disclaimer here. Address the unknown that the team identifies. If they don’t understand something in planning, clear it up before execution begins. Some architectural decision must be big and early. These are often based on business requirements, not technology. Java vs. […]

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8 Nov
2007

Flexible ASP.NET User Controls

By: Guest Blogger Category:UncategorizedTag: :

In the application that I am currently working on there are several very similar screens. The obvious solution was to create a User Control (UC) that encapsulated the appropriate functionality. Apart from some labels, URLs etc. that were easily taken care of with some simple properties on the UC the only difference between the various […]

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