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Developing orientation and resolution aware Windows Mobile applications just got a TON easier
Quite some time ago I posted about how we ( Clarius Consulting with Microsoft Patterns & Practices ) solved the multiple resolution/orientation problem for Windows Mobile developers by introducing the Orientation Aware Control (OAC) as part of...
Posted 03 September 2008 01:40 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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How to get ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 to run with .NET SP1
As you probably know by now (i.e. from Phill's blog ), however both Routing and Abstractions are. MVC Preview 4 , however, has its own version of both assemblies. In order to get MVC to use the new RTM bits of both assemblies (and avoid weird side-by...
Posted 24 August 2008 02:07 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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How to diagnose Linq to SQL easily and production-ready
Here's what we're currently doing: we add an InitializeContext method to all DataContext-derived classes, which is called from all ctors: private void InitializeContext() { #if DEBUG if ( Debugger .IsAttached) { this .Log = new DebuggerTextWriter ();...
Posted 22 August 2008 09:08 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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The need for nullable reference types to advertise optional constructor dependencies
In "traditional" OOP, you advertise your class required dependencies via constructor arguments: public Foo(IOutput output, ILogger logger, ...) Typically, the first few lines of code will check that these dependencies are not null. Optional dependencies...
Posted 18 July 2008 07:42 AM by Daniel Cazzulino
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Do you really care about Stub vs Mock?
I've argued in the past that this theoretical discussion is utterly useless . In my experience you need slightly different things from your test doubles at different times and depending on the scenarios and what you care about testing in a particular...
Posted 05 July 2008 04:50 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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Mocking protected members with Moq
If you're familiar with Moq , you know that it relies on lambda expressions heavily. This is very good as you get full support from intellisense and refactoring features in Visual Studio. However, it also means you're for the most part restricted to setting...
Posted 05 July 2008 03:10 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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Moq 2.5 shipped: lots of good news!
Today we shipped Moq v2.5. It's been a while since RC1 (a month or so feels  so long for an open source agile project!) and we god very good feedback and suggestions for the final release. I'm pretty happy with the current drop and felt it was...
Posted 05 July 2008 12:11 AM by Daniel Cazzulino
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Cool ajax loader image generator
Just found (via Brian ) about this cool site to generate ajax-like loading donnuts like this one: Read full article
Posted 03 July 2008 03:58 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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VS2008 SP1 Beta: DON'T install without first backing up your settings!
I lost them all in the process :(((( Read full article
Posted 05 June 2008 12:21 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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Mesh synchronization of KML files through FeedSync
We've been working for the past few days on a mesh4x adapter that can synchronize a potentially big KML file at a very granular level (styles, placemarks, folders, etc.) so that you can collaboratively edit these large files without having to resolve...
Posted 28 May 2008 07:17 PM by Daniel Cazzulino
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