Daniel Cazzulino's Blog

I’m investigating the PayPal Adaptive Payments for a project, and was gladly surprised to find not only the sample app but also the SDK itself open sourced at GitHub. Cool!

If you’re configuring continuous deployment on Team Foundation Service for a .NET 4.5, you may get an error like the following in the build log:

The Kickstarter successes of the ambitious Ghost as well as the much more modest Schema Migrations for Django or git-annex (all open source software projects) got me thinking that this could be the start of a new way to fund open source projects in general.

Unlike every other T4 editor out there, Clarius Visual T4 is the only one to embed the actual C# editor inside the T4 code blocks. This may seem like irrelevant implementation detail to some, but let me show you why it’s not.

Wouldn’t it be nice if your followers could be notified whenever you publish a new version of a NuGet package? Currently, nuget.org offers no support for this, but with the following tricks, you can get it working without programming.

A couple days ago I was toying with the idea of generating a static API documentation site in markdown ready for hosting in GitHub. The idea is to make it part of the project wiki, so that anyone can very easily improve the code documentation, and later on somehow allow project authors/contributors to merge back the edited markdown as XML documentation in the code itself, so that the cycle is closed.

I just had to adapt my favorite IoC container to do some of the things MEF does out of the box, namely registering all classes that have a certain attribute (in MEF’s case, [Export]).

A typical solution usually has many projects, and many more NuGet packages in use: