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An Obscure FxCop feature

Submitted by Bevan on Tue, 16 Feb 10 - 9:20am

This has to qualify as an obscure FxCop feature:

DoNotDeclareReadOnlyMutableReferenceTypes is a rule that checks for visible read-only fields that are mutable reference types (classes). A mutable type is a type whose instance data can be changed once it has been constructed.

Adding AzMan Operations

Submitted by Bevan on Wed, 3 Feb 10 - 12:46pm

If you ever find yourself using AzMan and can't work out how to add a new operation (as I did today), here's the key (and hard to Google) step.

Wierdness with Fitnesse

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 1 Feb 10 - 9:36pm

I ran into something really weird with FitNesse (the acceptance testing framework) today. --Chances are, it's something I've done wrong - but I can't work out what. If you know, please comment below!-- Updated below with the solution.

Boiling the whole thing down into a simple test case, what I've found is the following.

CI, Builds and NAnt

Submitted by Bevan on Fri, 15 Jan 10 - 4:57pm

The ISerializable blog post "The difference between continuous Integration tools and automated build tools" has a good breakdown of the difference - one does the build, the other triggers the build.

At the moment, I'm using TeamCity and NAnt for my builds.

Sequence diagrams in Visual Studio 2010

Submitted by Bevan on Mon, 23 Nov 09 - 7:30pm

This is pretty neat - Sequence Diagram generation in Visual Studio 2010.

What a great tool to have available when trying to grok a codebase.

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