I wasn't sure how well SubSonic would play with Oracle, but it turns out that it was very easy to get the basics working. First, I setup a data access class and the SubSonic basics like VS external tools etc. Instead of the configuration suggested in the above link, my App.config looked like this: <...

Moron learning? Yes, today I wanted to talk about how I am going about learning ReSharper. A colleague of mine, after reading my last post on some basic ReSharper features , asked me how I'd learnt about these features, how much time it took, and whether there were any good tutorials out there. Short...

On the couple of occasions I have talked people into trying JetBrains ReSharper (R#), the first thing they seem to notice is that it can optimise your using statements, and that it puts are bar down the right hand side of your editor showing you all the mistakes you have made in bright red and yellow...

Interesting times in the area of automated testing for .NET. James Newkirk , who previously worked on NUnit (and wrote at least one good book on TDD in .NET ), and Brad Wilson have released xUnit.net , a new unit testing framework for .NET. Read the announcement for the important differences. One of...

I use TortoiseSVN as my SVN client, but it is not integrated into Visual Studio like AnkhSVN and others. This generally suits the way I like to work, but occasionally it would be nice to right click on a new class and pick "Add to SVN", or have an easy way of doing an SVN move. I have recently started...

After using Vista for a while I was having trouble switching back to the Windows-XP version of Windows Explorer at work. I especially missed the bread crumb that makes it really easy to go to different folders along the current path. There had to be an alternative out there. Turns out there are a few...

When you add a bookmark to Firefox you can also specify a keyword for it. Typing in that keyword into the address bar activates that bookmark. You can also pass a parameter to your bookmark, by typing in keyword parameter . This allows you to setup some really useful shortcuts. Here is a list of some...

Rob has a webcast on using the new sonic.exe tool from the command line . This is very nice stuff, and addresses the only hesistations I had about the pre-2.0 release, which was the requirement to use build providers with ASP.NET. I was going to write my own to use SubSonic from within a class library...

Here are the Firefox add-ons I have trouble living without: Adblock Plus - block invasive and/or high-bandwidth ads. You can let through "tasteful" ads at your discretion :) FireBug - essential for web development ScribeFire - For blogging. Formerly Performancing. IE View - useful for switching to IE...

David Hayden has noted the final beta release of RedGate's SQL Prompt 3 (formerly PromptSQL prior to being acquired by RedGate). I ditched an earlier version of this product after it consistently had speed issues, was annoyingly invasive when typing and troubles intellisensing after upgrading to SQL...