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Delivery vs Quality: I realize that just about anybody reading this will immediately think “but we can have both.” I understand that. This is just an example. At a client once, I came aboard with a bunch of other consultants around the same time (sometimes organizations do these weird things like letting entire groups of consultants go, along with their gained knowledge, and then have to pay the cost of having that knowledge needing to be relearned. There are ways that organizations can learn to do such things better, but I digress). With a large installed base of applications, various consultants were...; posted @ Thursday, February 21, 2013 11:44 AM | Feedback (0)

More fun with Nuget, or NuGet Still Sucks: I like Jimmy Bogard. A lot. He seems really cool. We’ve never met, and besides maybe an occasional cross comment on blog posts, I don’t think I’ve ever talked to him. But he seems cool, and he seems to be a really good developer, much better than I am (though a sick hamster with some JQuery skills is probably a better developer than I am, but I digress). Anyhoo, he had a recent post about some presentation he gave in various places like Dublin and Kiev and Guam and Haiti and Narobi (okay, I’m exaggerating), and posted about...; posted @ Sunday, December 23, 2012 3:40 PM | Feedback (2)

VSCommands Friendly Solution Name: If you are one of those annoying people who like to have 2 or 3 or 9 instances of Visual Studio open at once while working on multiple branches of the same code base (and only an idiot would want to do this, obviously), it helps if you can get Visual Studio to include the branch name in the title, otherwise, you end up having to open a file and hover over it to help remember which is which. If you download VSCommands Lite for use in VS 2010, you can set what are called friendly names, but unfortunately,...; posted @ Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:23 AM | Feedback (0)

Visual Studio 2012: Still can’t handle going offline?: Shouldn’t Visual Studio be able to handle this by now, without multiple prompts about files needing to be overwritten (at best) or total failures because of files being read-only (see previous post about NuGet)? Seems like a rather obvious requirement for basic functionality.; posted @ Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:01 PM | Feedback (2)

T4MVC RedirectToAction problem: I tried to find similar issues but Google-fu failed me. With TVMVC, you should be able to get rid of some magic strings. So, for instance, if you have this: return RedirectToAction("Index", “Foo", new FooViewModel {SomeProperty = false }); you should be able to replace it with: return RedirectToAction(MVC.Foo.Index(new FooViewModel {SomeProperty = false})); However, the FooViewModel is always null when it gets to the controller. I always assume user error, since johnny developer is an idiot, but nothing seems to be working.; posted @ Friday, June 08, 2012 2:17 PM | Feedback (2)

First impression of Visual Studio 2012 RC: Holy crap. Is that thing f%^&ing ugly or what?; posted @ Thursday, June 07, 2012 2:36 PM | Feedback (0)

Faulting Module Kernel32.dll: One solution: This is one solution to this error, hardly the only one. Sometimes when you try to run a .NET application, you get a completely generic error message in event viewer that includes “faulting module kernel32.dll” in the description. If you Google this, you will see that there is a wide and nearly useless range of cases where this can occur. In my particular case, though it took a little while to figure out, the cause and solution were fairly straightforward. The application was a windows service, and would throw an error when started. It worked in other...; posted @ Sunday, October 30, 2011 4:18 PM | Feedback (5)

Review: Tekpub Webcast - Full Throttle : TDD with Brad Wilson: So, after going through the signup process, I finally gained access to this episode. Leading up to this review, I have watched the episode in total 3 times: the first time I watched straight through while taking quick short hand notes, the second time, I watched portions of it in succession, stopping to take more in-depth notes, the third time, I watched it to fine-tune my comments on specific sections. Since I’ve been ragging on Tekpub, it is only fair to start off with a positive general note. Tekpub’s Production Quality Rob has been doing...; posted @ Tuesday, September 20, 2011 8:07 PM | Feedback (0)

Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview doesn’t always like Visual Studio 2010 Projects: I installed the Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview on one of my machines, as it is supposedly safe to install side by side with Visual Studio 2010. One of its supposed features is its ability to open Visual Studio 2010 projects/solutions without modifying them, which can then be re-opened in Visual Studio 2010. It turns out this isn’t always the case, though I’m not sure why. I have a solution that is (more or less) a silverlight application, and it simply won’t open the web project that hosts the silverlight app. When the solution is opened, it...; posted @ Saturday, September 17, 2011 11:53 AM | Feedback (1)

Why do I have to use NuGet?: NuGet is Microsoft’s attempt to copy Ruby gems, as far as I can tell. Great. All for it. But why is it that I have to use it, instead of getting the option to install normally through some MSI or other option? Maybe I’m missing something, but if I want to install, say, EF 4.2 Beta 1, why can’t I have an option to install it globally, as opposed to having to install it within some specific project/solution? I’m using a Microsoft release as an example, but I could just as easily use, e.g. AutoMapper as an example....; posted @ Monday, August 22, 2011 8:53 PM | Feedback (6)

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