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After recently migrating an important new website to use Windows Azure “Web Roles” I wanted an easier way to deploy new versions to the Azure Staging environment as well as a reliable process to rollback deployments to a certain “known good” source control...
Now that I have my source code being checked into GitHub and have TeamCity doing automatic builds (and running tests), I thought it was about time to take the last big step and automatically deploy the latest version of an application to a live site ...
I was writing conventions for FluentNHibernate the other day and I ran into the need to pluralize a given string and immediately thought of the ruby on rails Inflector. It turns out there is a .NET library out there also capable of doing word inflection...
Validation of user input is integral to building a modern web application, and ASP.NET MVC offers us a way to enforce business rules on both the client and server using Model Validation. The recent release of ASP.NET MVC 3 has improved these offerings...
The System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace contains a validation attribute called DataTypeAttribute, which takes an enum specifying what data type the given property conforms to. Here are a few quick examples: public class DataTypeEntity...
When distributing a library you often run up against versioning problems, once facet of which is simply determining which version of that library your client is running. Of course, each project in your solution has an AssemblyInfo.cs file which...
I’ve been playing with Visual Studio 2010 Beta a little and one of my favorite new features (and there are many) is the new web.config transformation feature. Web.config transformations are setup so there is one configuration “delta” for each build configuration...
I recently setup my first project ever in CodePlex and naturally I am very excited about its tight integration with TFS since my group uses TFS internally for source control as well. Connecting to CodePlex through the Visual Studio Team Explorer...
When working in on a fresh Visual Studio 2008 SP1 install I needed to use TFS (as always) so I installed the TFS Team Explorer client from the TFS disk and I kept getting the following error whenever trying to view/edit Work Items: Could not load type...
Creating a Custom Code Snippet is pretty easy to do -- you just fire up your favorite text editor, write some XML, and save the results in a *.snippet file. If you use Visual Studio as your text editor, you can even get some XML Intellisense, which is...
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