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From TechEd Houston 2014–“Zero to Hero: Untested to Tested with Microsoft Fakes & Visual Studio”
I spoke at TechEd 2014 last week and here are the slides, the pdf of the slides, code samples, and the link to the video from my unit testing & Microsoft Fakes talk. Zero to Hero: Untested to Tested with Microsoft Fakes Using Visual Studio You’ve got an application with no tests. Trust me. You’re…
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Walkthrough: ASP.NET MVC Identity with Microsoft Account Authentication
UPDATED (May 16, 2016) — If you’re looking for how to do this with ASP.NET Core, here’s the ASP.NET Core 1.0 version. UPDATED (June 13, 2014) — With the latest version of the ASP.NET Identity / OWIN libraries and code, the Redirect URL value that you’ll use in Step #8 should now be “http://www.mysampleapp.com/signin-microsoft”. If…
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Some missing command line utilities for Team Foundation Server 2013
I feel like I’ve been spending my life doing Team Foundation Server migrations and upgrades lately. (It’s only partially true.) Anyway, there have been a handful of command line tools for TFS2013 that I’ve wanted and just got around to writing them. Here are the features: List work item folders for a Team Project List…
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TFS2013: Ways to add a linked child Task a Product Backlog Item (PBI)
A couple of days ago a customer asked me what the best way to add new Task to a Product Backlog Item (PBI) during the Daily Scrum meeting or a Scrum Sprint Planning meeting. When I started working on the reply, I realized that there are quite a few ways to add a related child…
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Install Guide
[May 28, 2014 Update: there’s a new version of this guide] I’ve been spending a lot of time playing with Team Foundation Server 2013 lately and I’ve done a handful of installs. I created an installation guide with screenshots of each step to help make the process go more smoothly. At the moment, it only has Chapters for…
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How to Create Custom Performance Monitor (PerfMon) Counters
I’ve been helping a customer develop some Visual Studio 2010 Web Performance Tests and Load Tests for their application. Basically, they have an estimate in mind for how many simultaneous users they need to support and want to verify that they can actually handle this load. Their application is a Silverlight front-end that talks to…
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Run Azure Development Storage from Visual Studio Unit Tests
I wrote an article a while back for SearchWinDevelopment.com showing you how to start Azure Development Storage from Visual Studio unit tests. It just recently got posted on their site. Use Azure development storage from unit tests by Benjamin Day If you’re writing an application that’s going to use Windows Azure, you have two options…
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Cancelled: Beantown .NET Meeting Thursday, 10/2 — Jesse Liberty, "Skinning Silverlight Controls"
Update 10/2/2008: Unfortunately, Jesse Liberty is ill and won’t be able to make it tonight. This meeting has been cancelled and Jesse will be speaking at our December 4, 2008 meeting. -Ben Reminder: Beantown .NET is meeting this week on Thursday, October 2nd. For our October meeting, we have Jesse Liberty from Microsoft presenting “Skinning…
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Custom, Stateful Object Data Source For ASP.NET
The ObjectDataSource that’s been in ASP.NET for the last few releases is has always seemed really cool but — well — only almost useful. If you want to do data access logic directly in your ASP.NET form’s code, then the ASP.NET ObjectDataSource is great. For those of us who can’t, won’t, or don’t do data…
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VSLive New York 2008 — Architect LINQ To SQL End-to-End
I just wrapped up my first of two presentations at VSLive New York 2008. Architect Applications End-to-End with LINQ to SQL LINQ to SQL is great for getting objects in and out of a relational database but how does it fit in to an n-tier application? Demos are great but how do you really use…