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MbUnit 3.1
Jeff and the team have announced MbUnit 3.1 , this is another major release from the team with a great deal on offer. Rather than repost please see Jeffs announcement post as there is a great deal of new stuff to see.
CodeRush TestRunner
CodeRush have shown a preview of their new TestRunner with NUnit and MbUnit support right out of the box . Jeff and the Gallio team have done a lot of work with these kinds of test execution engines (Gallio supports the R# TestRunner for example) and...
behaviour-driven development (BDD) poll.
While Test Driven Development and TDD frameworks are fast entering the mainstream mind set in the .NET community it seems behaviour-driven development BDD still has some way to go. A quick fire poll dear reader, have you encountered BDD at all? do you...
Hudson CI
Hudson seems to be a clear choice for the Java crowd over CruiseControl yet seems overlooked in .NET land? You can find a guide to setting up and using Hudson here . It is worth noting that both TeamCity and Hudson support NUnit out of the box, for MbUnit...
TeamCity 5.0 builds and defects
The good folks at JetBrains have added a great feature to TeamCity 5.0 EAP (codenamed Darjeeling), connecting builds and defects . If your commit has the defect number attached then TeamCity will go ahead and connect the two so you can look at what defects...
VS10 minimal theme
Trying VS10 in a minimal theme works out well. Rob Connerys Vibrant Ink theme with the toolbox and navigation windows removed, you can find it here .
Different VS experinces
Folks use VS in different ways, taking a cue from Jimmy Boguard who runs VS as follows. As Jimmy notes in his blog post the lack of navigation windows and tool bars, in many respects Jimmy uses VS like a text editor but as he states Since I’m writing...
Whats do you like most in your IoC of choice?
Question for you dear reader, what do you like most in your IoC framework of choice, what is lacking and what would you want to see?
Technology Redundancy
Technology is moving at an ever changing pace, in the Microsoft stack alone it seems to change every month. As a developer the risk you face is massive if you don't keep up and keeping up is getting ever harder. Some developers have the spare time to...
What Editors\IDE rock your world?
What editors\IDE (be they Windows\Linux\Mac) rock you out the most, from Emacs to TextMate I want to hear what you like\dislike the most and why? [Update] I may posed this question in a confusing manner, what I want to know is if you use an editor over...
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