Garry Pilkington


Application Developer
Liverpool, UK

Browse by Tags

All Tags » General stuff » .NET (RSS)
Full Circle
Things have been a little bit hectic these past 6 months hence the lack of posts. My excuse is a good one though, my wife gave birth to our first son Tom back in September and it has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride since then. Things have settled...
WinMerge as a Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2008
Ok I know VS 2010 is the new toy to be seen playing around with, but as I have just recently  got delivery of my new Windows 7 pc I thought I would document how to get WinMerge to work as a comparison tool with VS2008 Team System. If for anything...
Unit Testing Videos
The Learn Visual Studio.net website has just published a new series on unit testing , covering an introduction to unit testing, using MSTest, and NUnit. These are always good sources of practical information to help you get up to speed on anything .net...
Code Snippet Plugin for Live Writer
For anybody who regularly displays code using Live Writer, then this plugin by Leo Vildosola is a must to check out. When ever I do a rebuild of any of my computers this has to go on and I always have trouble remembering where I found it. So here are...
Quickly reading technical articles and books
There is so much information out there pertaining to our jobs, a lot comes in the form of articles and books. How do you get through all this information fast without loosing comprehension? Well this is my technique. I have used this since my university...
Open containing folder
This is one VS 2008 shortcut I use all the time. Open the folder which contains the file you are currently working on. Simply right click the tab in the editor view and choose that option. Ok nothing new there. It would be better if there was a shortcut...
Objectives 2009
I am a little late in setting out my resolutions, and although 1st January is a good time of year to set out your objectives, I’ve never liked to be restricted by a date. If I smoked (which I don’t), and I wanted to give it up, I wouldn’t wait until the...
My end of year tool honours list
Well the holiday season is finally upon us, and I would like to take this opportunity to post a list of applications that I personally have found useful over the past 12 months. There are some classics in there, but a few surprises. Have a look, there...
Protect your job...perhaps by learning new tech goodies
It is in the news so much recently that there is no avoiding the fact we are either in or about to go in to a recession ( here in the UK that is ). There is already job losses in the tech industry, wether these losses were going to happen anyway, and...
More Posts