Back in February, I wrote a blog post showing you how to, using Silverlight 4 OOB (out of browser) with elevated trust, access system devices; including how to use the SAPI.SpVoice API through the new Silverlight 4 COM Interop feature to implement text to speech. The biggest problem to that approach is that it will […]
Read MoreI have been doing Silverlight development since it was released. One question I get asked a lot is how do to create a custom pre-loader for my application. What do I mean by pre-loader? Well, it can be called many things; it could be called a pre-loader, splash screen, or a loading screen. No matter […]
Read MoreAdam I will never forget my first day at my first programming job. I was excited, eager, and happy to be there, feeling like I had finally made the big time. I thought, “I am going to get to be a real software developer,” and I was stoked beyond belief. In the elevator on the […]
Read MoreIn my last post on MSpec, John Sonmez commented: When I see the MSpec code, I think about it being an internal DSL for doing the testing, and I start to think that perhaps it should just go ahead and be it?s own language instead of trying to live inside of C#. On the other […]
Read MoreI?m getting a session ready for Boise Code Camp 2010 on JQuery Validator. I thought it would be cool to hand out a cheat sheet ? but I couldn?t find one. So here is rev. 1 of my?Jquery Validator Cheat sheet.
Read MoreOver the last few years, the practice of Test-Driven Design and Behavior-Driven Design has increased in acceptance, even if its practice has not increased in equal proportion. From my perspective, specification-based design is a natural way to develop software. Each developer has a preferred framework, and a framework they loathe. In the .NET world, there […]
Read MoreIn my previous posts, I showed the syntax for context/specifications using Machine.Specifications (or MSpec for short) and how to use an auto mocking container in conjunction with this excellent Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) framework. For this post, I want to show you one of the nice features of MSpec called behaviors. Suppose we have to create […]
Read MoreSometimes I think things are more complicated than they really are. I got my head into a bind recently when I had some code that I really wanted under test in a Controller Action. My first thought was “Crap, this is going to be rough”. Mainly I was still thinking of my time trying to […]
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