Archive for the '.NET' Category


Parent-Child Unit Tests

So, I’m kind of wondering if something like this exists. I currently have a set of tests that share common set up code which I only want to execute once for all of the tests, as well as some set up code that I want executed before each test. In addition, though, there [...]

On PowerShell

So, I’ve been using PowerShell a whole bunch lately, mostly to write prebuild / postbuild scripts for our product. Now, for most things, a batch file works fine. However, I wanted a few features that powershell really shines at (like date comparisons without downloading extra tools), and I really wanted to see just how [...]

Firefox, Silverlight, Services and ASP.NET Debugging

Edit: If you’ve been having problems with this, it’s because I accidentally missed a step. Firefox will always look for an old process regardless of whether you want to start as a separate profile. To fix this, you need to add the MOZ_NO_REMOTE environment variable with a value of 1. Note: This [...]

The Illusion of Portability

So, I’ve been looking at a lot of Microsoft technology recently, especially a lot of the technology based on the .NET platform, and for a while I was really excited about some of the possibilities they presented. I thought that, in the future, I’d be able to write a single C# library, and use that [...]