Slides & Samples from my Visual Studio Live Vegas 2012 talks.
I spoke at Visual Studio Live 2012 last week and, as promised, here are the slides and code samples from my talks. Talk #1: Top 7 Lessons Learned On My First Big Silverlight Project Silverlight is...
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Use a Coded UI to test ListBox and ComboBox controls in a web application
A little over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about using Coded UI Tests to programmatically manipulate ListBoxes and ComboBoxes in a Windows Form application. More recently I got an email from a...
View ArticleTip: Make TFS2012 build logging easier using extension methods in...
I’ve been writing a lot of custom Workflow Activities for Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) Builds lately. A custom Workflow Activity lets you drop application-specific logic and steps into...
View ArticleLab: Refactor for testability using the Repository pattern
I had a long drive yesterday to go visit a customer and while I was driving it occurred to me that I have LOTS of courseware that I’ve written that is just sitting around gathering virtual dust....
View ArticleUnit Testing & Test-Driven Development Courseware for Visual Studio 2010
Well, like I mentioned in my last post, I’m planning to publish a lot of the old courseware that I’ve developed over time. The idea is to share the materials that I’m no longer using with the good...
View ArticleVSLive Las Vegas 2013: “Design for Testability” slides & code
I just wrapped up at VSLive Las Vegas 2013 and, as promised, here are my slides and code samples from the “Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces” talk. Design for...
View ArticleVSLive Chicago 2013: “Design for Testability” slides & code
I just wrapped up at VSLive Chicago 2013 and, as promised, here are my slides and code samples from the “Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces” talk. Design for...
View ArticleXML utility methods for C#
It’s tough to work on a project that doesn’t involve XML. XML is everywhere and I kept needing to do the same things again and again from project to project. I took my C# XML utility methods,...
View ArticleSlides from “How to be a C# Ninja” at Visual Studio Live Orlando 2013
I spoke at VSLive Orlando 2013 last month and did a talk called “How to Be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps”. How to Be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps Are you new to C# and want to get awesome? Are you pretty...
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Automatic Exception Handling on ICommand ViewModel Properties
If you’re writing a WPF application or some other XAML-based application, you’re probably using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. If you’re being “good” about your MVVM implementation, you’re...
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VSLive Vegas 2016: Unit Testing for Mere Mortals Slides & Code
I just wrapped up my first talk at VSLive Las Vegas 2016 — “Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals”. Thanks to all the attendees for the great questions — especially the...
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VSLive Redmond 2017: Unit Testing for Mere Mortals Slides & Code
I just wrapped up my talk at VSLive Redmond 2017 — “Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals”. Thanks to all the attendees for the great questions. As promised, here are my...
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VSLive Orlando 2017: Unit Testing for Mere Mortals Slides & Code
I just wrapped up my talk at VSLive Orlando 2017 — “Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals”. Thanks to all the attendees for the great questions. As promised, here are my...
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Slides & Code from VSLive Austin 2018: “Unit Testing for Mere Mortals”
I just wrapped up my talk at VSLive Austin 2018 — “Unit Testing & Test-Driven Development (TDD) for Mere Mortals”. Thanks to all the attendees for the great questions. As promised, here are my...
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Some Useful Visual Studio Code Snippets
A couple of months ago, I got inspired to really learn .NET Core and Visual Studio Code (VSCode). But I didn’t just want to learn it from Windows — the real power of .NET Core is that’s...
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Some Model Properties Not Binding in ASP.NET MVC Core
[TL/DR? – skip to the bottom] I ran into a problem with an ASP.NET MVC Core app today and it took me a while to figure it out. Here’s the problem: on an extremely simple and straightforward form, I...
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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,...
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3 Common Problems with ClaimsIdentity and ClaimsPrincipal in ASP.NET Core
In .NET Core, the ClaimsIdentity class represents a user in your application. It helps describe who they are and helps manage the list of claims which describe what they can do. But if you use the...
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C#: How to Find All Files Including Hidden Files?
I was writing some code yesterday that needed to enumerate all files in a directory. So I wrote what I’ve been writing since the beginning of time: var files = Directory.GetFiles("*.*", new...
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Angular WebAPI Project using .NET Core gets ‘404 Not Found’ or runs on wrong...
I’ve got an Angular application that runs using .NET Core in a WebAPI project. It’s been working for months but for some reason today, it completely stopped working when I launched it from VSCode,...
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