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Each time I set this up I always have to google to remember how to do it. The last time I set it up I came across James Kovacs' post on the subject which works great. The only thing I usually end up adding is the --listen-port=x since many clients do
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Just finished reading Bil's excellent post on his frustrations with Continuous Integration (CI) in the VS 2005 world. My feelings about CI with VS 2003 and the nAnt, nUnit, Subversion, CC.Net combo are the same as his: Visual Studio 2003 and Cruise Control.NET.
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I was trying to figure out how to get the latest revision number from our SVN repository today and came across this great example of how to do this. Very nice. Now I can do a lot of build specific stuff in my build script.
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From Patrick : VPC images are saving my life as a trainer. Managing your VPC images however can be a daunting task if you don't know all of its capabilities. Andrew has an extremely well-documented process & strategy for using Virtual PC and how to
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via Sam Gentile : We use CC.NET on our project so we are going to need to upgrade. You should too if you are using it. Read the Release Notes here and download from here Cool! I'll have to see if they fixed their stylesheet bugs, but if not you can get
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As I mentioned in my last post , we have relied heavily on CCNet on our project along with other open source tools. A couple other tools we use are NCover and FxCop . Both of these tools run as part of our NAnt build script along with NUnit. We display
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Last night we released the version 1.0 of the software I've been working on for the last six months. Hopefully that means I'll have more time for blogging and more time to explore all the new stuff that has been released recently. One of the things that
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From Clemmens talking about technology overload: Enter VS2005 and the summary of trying to achieve the same knowledge density is: “Frustrating”. I feel his frustration. I remember going to PDC 2003 and realizing that it was getting very hard
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Just finished writing some test code for some shared utilities on my current project. The project is a BizTalk project so the utilities can be hit from multiple threads and from multiple boxes (with a shared database box). So I needed to test for these
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At my current project for Avanade I've been working with Hisham (who is also my Career Manager and whose blog I read before I even knew about Avanade) and we've been doing a lot of BizTalk stuff. As he stated here , BizTalk development, without the help
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A couple of weeks ago Jan Tielens released the SmartPart version 1.0.0.0 . The SmartPart is a very cool WebPart that will host ASP.Net user controls in a SharePoint environment. This means you can use Visual Studio to edit the user controls and use the
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Thanks to Brian Button , I am starting to get test driven development (TDD). TDD is a simple concept which is probably why it took so long for me to get it. I thought I understood it after reading through TTD in .Net . However, I think I only understood
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