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.NET Core Solution & Project Utilities (slnutil)
Announcing the Solution & Project Utilities (slnutil)! These are a collection of the handy utilities that I’ve written for working with .NET Core Solutions, Projects, and configuration files. I hope you find them useful.
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Profile a Unit Test in Visual Studio Fails with “File contains no data buffers”
Visual Studio has a fantastic feature in it that lets you quickly run the performance profiler against a unit test. Got a test that is running slow and you want to find out why? Go to Test Explorer, right-click that test and choose Profile. That’ll automatically run that test with the profiler attached. It usually…
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Code Snippets for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio for Mac
TL;DR — Here are the links to download the code snippets: Snippets for Visual Studio 2019 Snippets for Visual Studio for Mac Snippets for Visual Studio Code Download the snippets from GitHub Some Background My coding world and coding life has changed a lot in the last year and a lot of it was driven…
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VSLive SF 2015: ‘Better Unit Tests Through Design Patterns’ Slides & Code
As promised, here are the slides from the Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns: Repository, Adapter, Mocks, and more… talk that I did this week at VSLive Orlando 2015. Here’s the abstract: You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing “test first” development – but there are always those nagging questions. How do your user interfaces fit…
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VSLive Orlando 2015: Real World SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
As promised, here are the slides and code samples from the Real World SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) talk that I did this week at VSLive Orlando 2015. Here’s the abstract: SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) help you manage your database schemas and let you do it under source control. Great. Got it. But every…
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VSLive SF 2015: ‘Better Unit Tests Through Design Patterns’ Slides & Code
As promised, here are the slides from the Better Unit Tests through Design Patterns: Repository, Adapter, Mocks, and more… talk that I did yesterday at VSLive San Francisco 2015. Here’s the abstract: You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing “test first” development – but there are always those nagging questions. How do your user interfaces fit into…
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VSLive SF 2015: Load Testing Slides & Code
As promised, here are the slides and code samples from my Load Testing ASP.NET & WebAPI with Visual Studio 2013 talk that I did today at VSLive San Francisco 2015. Here’s the abstract: It’s a common problem: you’re getting close to when you’re supposed to deploy your new ASP.NET application in to production and somehow…
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Install Guide (May 2014 Update)
With the recent release of Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 2 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, it was time to do an update on my Team Foundation Server 2013 Install Guide. In addition to adding information about installing TFS2013 Update 2, I’ve also added walk-throughs for Installing SQL Server 2014 for TFS2013 Update 2…
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Yes, you can create multiple Git repos per TFS Team Project.
Like a lot of people in the Microsoft world, I’m still working to *really* wrap my brain around Git. I’ve been using centralized version control systems like SourceSafe and Team Foundation Server Version Control (TFVC) for my entire career. Centralized version control is what I know and it’s what makes sense to me. When you have a…
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From TechEd Houston 2014: “Using Functional, Exploratory and Acceptance Testing to Release with Confidence”
I spoke at Microsoft TechEd 2014 in Houston, TX last week. One of the talks I did was on using Team Foundation Server 2013 (TFS2013) and Microsoft Test Manager 2013 (MTM 2013) to test your software. Specifically, how do you perform your tests and track your testing efforts so that you know that your application…