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Having gathered initial feedback from the v0.99 release, v0.99b is now available, with the following minor improvements: Iterations can be deleted. In v0.99, this feature just linked to the Story Delete, and wasn't implemented Date fields now have pop...
Whilst I've not had time to do all the documentation I was planning to over Christmas, I have got round to bundling up the installer and updating www.XPStoryStudio.com . So, available for download now (from the aforementioned URL), is v0.99 of XP StoryStudio...
One of the favourite Enterprise development strategies for .NET websites I've come up with is that of splitting the website into logical areas along functional- (and naturally change-) boundaries; having separate areas of the site developed as separate...
Long time since my last post - I've been getting ready for and going on a nice bit of pan-European road racing. The car was getting a fair bit of stick, so didn't make it the full distance, but that's another one to cross off the list of lifelong ambitions...
I finished the initial release of my latest (and possibly last for a while) MSI plugin tonight. This one, MSI Command Launcher , extends the ability of custom actions to run user-defined code by: Supporting the execution of batch files (standard Setup...
One of the things that's irked me for quite some time is how, even in a mature TDD environment, the tests that are written never seem to make it past the integration server. Yet vast amounts of time gets spent tracing and fixing the differences between...
I wrote a bit of a monologue in an e-mail to some of the developers at work the other day about documenting code. I've never been a great fan of huge swathes of inline comments splitting up what's only 4 or 5 lines of self-explanatory code, so when the...
I use NUnit. A lot. Almost every time I hit compile, in fact. And I'm not a big fan of the command line version; there's a certain feel-good factor from seeing all of the orbs turn green. But this is where my problem lies with NUnit - although it's technically...
One problem that's always been apparent in .NET projects is applying changes in application configuration during deployment. There's a longer article I'm going to write shortly on managing differing configurations between environments in the enterprise...
On various MS code help forums I've seen dozens of posts along the lines of "How do I get a root tag in an FOR XML EXPLICIT statement. There have been numerous responses: Do three SELECTs, with a " SELECT '<root>' FROM [Foo] " as the first one Read...
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