sfeldman.NET

If you are starting with R# (which you should definitely consider in case you are a professional .NET developer and not use an alternative), this plugin might be helpful to start with all the shortcuts.

This is one handy tool I really liked – web sequence diagrams online. No installations, quick, simple, free (except advance stuff).

Mocking HttpRequest and HttpResponse is not complicated with HttpRequestBase and HttpResponseBase introduced in ASP.NET. I had to mock ServerVariables property of HttpRequest and run into an issue – I was accessing an indexer property and didn’t know how to do this. Gladly, ran into a post that mentioned that indexer is actually utilizing a virtual Get() method. Reflector has confirmed that.

Great! Now indexer can be mocked.

Writing a Custom ConfigurationSection is not a big task, but can be very challenging if you forget some details. I loved this post as it reminded me that you have to have both the Section tag and the collection within it tag… dah!

Working with remote team members can be sometimes challenging. Working with temporary team members is even more challenging. IT can sometime get in your way when you need screen sharing, and you need it fast. Typically I’d go first with the official route – IT provided service (in case company provides that service or has acquired it), VNC (if IT supports it), or something else, more creative.

Working with a particular vendor yesterday, I had to share something really quick and didn’t have a way to do so. They have asked me to go to join.me and click “share”. Boy I got excited by simplicity – within seconds we had screen sharing/controlling going on. No heavy client installation, just a lightweight thin application, no registration, invitation is easy to create, multiple users connecting, sharing mouse/keyboard. And all this for free. Love it.