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March 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:29 PM

MSTest and the .NET Framework

+1 to everything that Brad Wilson said on this issue. The Visual Studio unit testing framework (MSTest) is moving into VS.NET Pro as opposed to requiring you to pony up for VS.NET Team Suite. This is good step, but unit testing should be a first class
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007 12:00 PM

Design and Communication Considered Biggest Software Challenges

I just stumbled across this great top ten software lessons learned list. I was happy to see the first one on this list: Object orientation is much harder than you think. I would probably state this as, "Software design is much harder than you think".
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:40 PM

Free Teamprise License for CodePlex Projects

Speaking of Microsoft and openness, Jim Newkirk just announced that non-Windows machines will be able to connect to open source projects on CodePlex! This is thanks to the Teamprise client suite which is available for free to connect to an open source
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 12:24 PM

Microsoft Joins OpenAjax Alliance

Kudos to ScottGu and team for working with common AJAX standards to ensure interoperability across different AJAX frameworks. When I was considering joining Microsoft last year I had to be convinced that A) Microsoft would continue to play nicely in the
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Monday, March 19, 2007 5:43 PM

Hosting and Consuming WCF Services

Dennis Mulder just announced that MSDN has released a free chapter from Pro WCF titled Hosting and Consuming WCF Services. Free is good. Thanks Dennis!
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Saturday, March 10, 2007 4:09 PM

Multiword AutoComplete for the AJAX Control Toolkit

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit has a cool control called the AutoComplete control (live demo). When a user starts to type in a word it calls a service to get suggestions for the word. Unfortunately this control does not allow for multiple words. That
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:11 PM

WCF Gets Better HTTP/POX Support

Thanks to Steve Maine (and team), WCF will have a better HTTP/POX story. As someone who is about to embark on creating RESTful services for an online community (more on that soon!), I'm very happy that the WCF team is working on this. Download the
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Monday, March 05, 2007 11:59 AM

Enterprise Library Gets Aspects

The next version of Enterprise Library will be getting an AOPish block called the Policy Injection Application Block. There are been a lot of buzz in the "blogsphere" (ugh, I'm becoming so Web 2.0) in the past couple of weeks: Tom Hollander's Official
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Thursday, March 01, 2007 6:51 PM

Upcoming Session: Introduction to Mock Objects

I will be speaking at the .NET Developers Association on the Microsoft main campus this Monday (3/5/2007). I will be delivering a session titled, "Introduction to Mock Objects". A Mock Object is a type of test object that allows for the mimicking
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