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NUnit: Twitter notification Addin

Guardian — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:21:00 +0000

Some days ago my good friend Gian Maria Ricci showed on his blog Alkampfer’s Place a nice way to integrate twitter and TFS showing how you can have tweets related to TFS actions. The idea was pretty cool, I actually do not a have a TFS up and running in my tests or development environments, but [...]

NUnit extensibility: an Addin to dynamically load other Addins

Guardian — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:57:00 +0000

One of the major problems when it comes to NUnit extensibility is the limitation that you must deploy your Addins in a subfolder (named ‘addins’) under the installation (or run) path of NUnit, so if you build some customization and extension and you want to deploy them on a build machine (or a Continous Integration [...]

NUnitit: Visual Studio Addin to support NUnit and some customizations to it

Guardian — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:19:00 +0000

These days I’m heavily working on NUnit to build some extensions to the testing framework we need on our projects. We need a simple way to launch our tests inside visual studio while developing. Our first solution was to use TestDriven.NET or the Reshaper implementation of NUnit. However both these approaches have some limitation I actually [...]

WPF: a generic ‘server-side’ pagination data provider

Guardian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:44:00 +0000

Sooner or later everyone face the problem of having to deal with paginated data in WPF, paginating a collection is quite easy and you can refer to one of my previous posts too (http://www.nablasoft.com/guardian/index.php/2008/09/08/silverlight-a-generic-pagination-control/ and http://www.nablasoft.com/guardian/index.php/2008/09/19/silverlight-pagination-control-bug-fixed/). This time I needed a way to interact with some WCF services that I have to use in order to [...]

Tomcat Troubles while installing JetBrains TeamCity and VMware

Guardian — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:02:00 +0000

I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out why the Tomcat service of a fresh installation of TeamCity Professional was continuously crashing each time I tried to open the administration console in the browser. I couldn’t find any useful log of information for that (I’m not really a Tomcat/Apache fan nor expert) so what [...]

Unity: WCF service resolution container extension

Guardian — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:09:00 +0000

In one of my previous posts I demonstrated how you can build a Castle Windsor facility to create WCF Proxy classes given the interface of the service (Castle Windsor WCF Services Resolution Facility). For my WPF/Silverlight application framework I needed the same feature for the IoC container I’m using there, so here it is how [...]

Redmine: a trick to import data from Mantis

Guardian — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:53:00 +0000

Today I decided to give Redmine a try as my new project management and bug tracking solution, mainly cause I wanted to try its integration with Subversion (given the fact that setting up an integration between Mantis and Subversion is a really painful). To make things short I installed the Bitnami Remine Stack, then I started [...]

Castle Windsor WCF Services Resolution Facility

Guardian — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:52:00 +0000

I have to admit I am not a huge fan of the automatic proxy generated code that you can obtain with svcutil.exe or using a standard Visual Studio service reference; mainly because it’s bloated with a lot of unneeded code, especially if you develop the service AND the clients that will use it (don’t get [...]

NHibernate/SqlServer: persist a generic ‘serializable’ object to an XML field

Guardian — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:56:00 +0000

Recently we had the problem of persisting some sort of extended data attached to a business object with the schema and the data of these extended information that can vary over time (usually with an additive strategy). Since we do not need to do extensive or complex analysis queries on these data (they are almost [...]

Silverlight/WPF UIElement: how to find and ancestor of type procedurally

Guardian — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:13:00 +0000

Suppose you have the following scenario you have two templated UserControl: UCContainer – is a graphical container for other controls, it can be used to contain different kinds of controls, it can be skinned using a template that will be changed by the user/graphic designer. You cannot do any assumptions on the template. UCDetail – is [...]