Just a quick one over of the awesomeness of ReSharper and NUnit. In both VB and C# one can execute a test, or tests within a class by a mere click of the mouse! No need to right click and run test, or open up additional windows or a test runner. Just click. In VB... Continue reading →

For the .NETters that use TeamCity there are two primary notification tools. The first is a tray icon tool and the second is a VS.NET plug-in. Both of these notification tools can be found on the TeamCity Build Server Site. Go to the user settings section and download the notification tools. I’m just going to... Continue reading →

Starting a new project always requires a certain amount of setup, one of the primary goals of any development group these days should be continuous integration. This is something that is not expensive or time consuming to setup. Recently for a grand price of about zero dollars (except for my regular pay, so I suppose... Continue reading →

Often when developing software the software developers just work on machines that are administrators in every aspect. Very little consideration is given to this, as developers usually know what they're doing. In a larger corporate environment though we developers often end up pushed into a corner with security considerations. Even at smaller companies sometimes they... Continue reading →

I’ve never been the “repository guy” or “build manager” or anything of that nature, but have had a decent amount of experience working with the tools. So a few simple tips… Exclude Directories The second you create a project in .NET, if it is one of the projects that have a obj and bin directory,... Continue reading →