Recently, I made some changes to an application that I have been working on. The requirement was to support different data stores. As written, the application only supported MS SQL Server. I had ho...

While spending last week in Las Vegas for VSLive!, we made a stop by [Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville]. Being a parrothead, this was quite a cool experience for me. During our visit there, I had a T...

A frustration that I’ve had for quite some time with TestDriven.NET is the apparent lack of keyboard bindings. Right-click/Run Tests just seems like such a nuisance. Today I set out to solve that ...

As we start migrating towards a more agile environment at work, I want to bring forward a unit testing framework that we could standardize on. The way I see it there are four unit testing framework...

Brian Marick has a stellar post that contains his talking points for bringing Agile into a legacy code base that really needs some cleaning up. Go ahead and read it now… I’ll wait. His points are...

This is a question that I think about frequently. When writing unit tests, it can be very easy to come up with a virtually infinite number ways to test code that might cause it to break. A general ...

Recently, while creating an installer application, I had the need to execute a sql script while my application was being installed. A while back, I posted a technique that would accomplish this. T...

Not long ago, I stumbled across a gem on the Refactoring list that talks about code clarity. The piece is by Michael Feathers, of Working Effectively with Legacy Code fame. There are some interest...

Early on in my teens, I was introduced to Motley Crue. Some of their early songs made quite an impression on me and that style of music was a significant part of my teenage years. Tonight, in an at...

The latest issue of the MSDN magazine offers a wonderful article by Michael Kaplan entitled “Make the .NET World a Friendlier Place With the CultureInfo class”. In this article Michael shows the ma...