Friday, June 21, 2002

Microsoft Responds to Gartner Group[System.Error.Emit] 11:02:29 PM

System.Error.Emit: Just curious Drew, but what kind of things do you feel are missing from the public interfaces that you would leverage as a VSIP?  The obvious one to me would be a .NETUnit project type in the solution explorer, but is there anything else?  I've been surprised a couple of times at the things that are possible with the public automation model. There are a lot of things that you can do with VSIP that are not exposed through the automation model. You're in VSIP - you know that right? 10:47:21 PM

.NETUnit If anyone is doing unit testing in .NET and is looking for an alternative to NUnit, you might want to check out my .NETUnit and MetaUnit Framework libraries. My framework takes a different approach to writing test suites, cases and methods. First of all it's completely declaritive, requiring you to do nothing but mark your fixtures and methods with attributes as opposed to the J/NUnit approach of subclassing TestCase and prefixing your methods with "test". It also follows a stricter definition of what a test case should be, which I've describe here. I don't have the rich UI for executing test suites yet, but I've supplied a command line sample. It's pretty straight forward and while I haven't worked on it recently, I do plan to pick it back up soon. Please feel free to post bugs, leave comments, and request features at the project's homepage. [Drew's Blog] [The Wagner Blog] I would but January 23, 2002 - last update?? Will it work with Build 3705 (final)? 10:38:56 PM

.NETUnit VS.NET Integration. .NETUnit VS.NET Integration BTW, I actually already have some hooks into VS.NET  to faciliate running tests per project on build. Unfortunately I'm not a VSIP, otherwise I'd be a lot further along with the integration, instead I have to hack my way through the poorly or complety undocumented VS.NET guts.[Drew's Blog] Well, I am and I just culminated 6 months of working with getting a full blown "design studio" into VS.NET - finally working end to end tonight!!! I may be able to help you without violating NDA. 10:33:22 PM

ASP.NET without IIS. Christian Langreiter cites a fascinating article by Ted Neward entitled Hosting ASP.NET: Running an All-Managed HTTP Server: ... [Jon's Radio] Well done, Ted. :) [The .NET Guy] Yes, great stuff! 10:02:35 AM

In this article we will look at implementing a composite web control. This web control will be a logon control which accepts a username and password and upon submission queries a database for the existence of the user record. In Part 1 of this article the control will be used to look at the ways in which we can enable basic Visual Studio.Net design time support of our custom server control. 9:57:30 AM

I thought Microsoft wanted more people to pass their MCSD .NET certification exams. Apparently not, when you look at their .NET certification guide books. 9:56:28 AM

NET Memory Profiler is a tool for the .NET Common Language Runtime that allows the user to track all objects that are allocated on the GC heap. The user can collect snapshots of the GC heap and get information about the instances allocated on the heap. The information includes all classes, all instances of classes, the call stacks of the instance allocations, the path to the root from each instance and a comparison of consecutive snapshots. 9:53:23 AM

Shaun Bangay of the Rhodes University Computer Science Department has released a port of Rotor for Linux. You can find more details, including a download, at the O'Reilly Network. 9:49:41 AM

ANN: Web Services DevCon East Call for Speakers [Chris & Tim] [Simon Fell] Yay! A Boston one! We had a great time at the last one! 9:46:30 AM

Boy, I never have been so happy to see the Windows XP desktop as this morning-). After playing games, I went and spent 4 hours playing with Linux until I let VMWare write into my disk and trash the disk. I'm finally up again. 9:45:08 AM

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