Stylecop Documentation and Supression
1 Aug 2008
stylecopcmd
The current download of StyleCop doesn’t include any documentation that tells you what standards it enforces.
Why use StyleCop?
1 Aug 2008
stylecopcmd
One question that I’ve been asked recently is Why use StyleCop? I believe that StyleCop is another example of a trend towards automation that has existed in our industry for decades.
Single Instance Applications
3 Aug 2008
tips
The .NET framework has lots and lots of built in goodies that aren’t well enough known - like built in support for ensuring only a single copy of the application runs at a time.
Tool Proficiency
4 Aug 2008
tips
I’ve long been of the opinion that it can be immensely fruitful to work towards being a virtuoso of your development environment. The more effectively you can drive the environment, the faster you’re going to get the job done - and the more time you can spend on thinking.
Conscious Development
6 Aug 2008
testing
I’m working on a couple of minor personal projects at the moment, and I’m using them as an opportunity to try and hone my skills at TDD/BDD style development. Even though I first heard about TDD some years ago, I haven’t yet made the breakthrough where it becomes automatic. I guess I’m still at the conscious competence stage of skill acquisition. I figured it would be useful to share a couple of things that I’ve found to be useful.
The Best RSS Reader
11 Aug 2008
tips
After using both RSS Owl and RSS Bandit for simply ages, I’ve finally found an RSS Reader that works the way that I want - and it was under my nose the whole time.
Outcome Based Thinking
12 Aug 2008
random
Over on 43 Folders (great site, well worth a spelunk or two) there’s a great post on getting focused.
.NET 3.5 SP 1 problems ...
16 Aug 2008
tips
It seems that .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 has a few issues …
Mandelbrots on TV
18 Aug 2008
mandelbrot
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email out of the blue from NOVA, a documentary series produced by the American PBS television channel.
NUnit Best Practices
21 Aug 2008
tips
I’m always looking to do things better tomorrow that I did yesterday - and to that end, I find other peoples ‘Best Practices’ posts endlessly valuable … not that I always agree with them of course, but I do enjoy being challenged to think.
Visual Studio Shortcuts for StyleCop
26 Aug 2008
visual-studio
It turns out that there are shortcuts for the StyleCop analysis window in Visual Studio. It’s just that no-one seems to have documented them.
NAnt and WiX Versioning
27 Aug 2008
deployment
In this post, I show how I’ve managed to integrate WiX into my NAnt build scripts while retaining consistency of versioning.
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