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09 Jan

Externalizing Settings for Data-Dependent Unit Tests using Proteus DatabaseUnitTestBase

in a recent request for the Proteus Project, a user asked about defining test-related settings in external .config files to control connection strings settings, the location(s) of support files like the serialized dataset xml data files and the dataset xsd schema files, and possibly other things.  While it might be of value to ‘formalize’ this [...]

25 Nov

Central NJ Agile Firestarter is Coming!

For those of you who missed out on the first NYC Agile Firestarter that the NY ALT.NET User Group and the NY .NET User Group jointly organized in June of 2009, I just wanted to announce that there is a ‘sister’ event coming soon to the Central NJ Area: The Central NJ .NET Agile Firestarter!  [...]

14 Nov

DevExpress 2009.2.9 Tools Released: CR_ClassCleaner, Refactor_UpdateNamespace, DX_SourceOutliner and More!

Its that time again: DevExpress has released the 2009.3 2009.2.9 update to their Visual Studio Productivity Tools.  This means the need to acquire updates for most plugins that have been compiled against the latest DXCore/CodeRush/Refactor! Pro assemblies.
As a convenience to others, here is the updated CR_ClassCleaner plugin…

ClassCleaner Info
ClassCleaner Download

I have also updated the binaries for [...]

26 Sep

CR_ClassCleaner, Unintended Dependencies: What’s in a Name?

In this recent post I mentioned that in response to the recent release of updated versions of Developer Express’ Visual Studio productivity tools (2009.2.6), I was not only providing an updated build of the CR_ClassCleaner plug-in compiled against the latest DXCore release, but that I also decided to incorporate the patch to CR_ClassCleaner mentioned in [...]

27 Aug

Overcommitted for Autumn(?)

I’ve recently become slowly more aware that its starting to take me longer and longer to respond to people who contact me, look into resolving issues that people bring to my attention, complete tasks within deadlines that I’ve committed to, and otherwise meet my obligations to others.
As I started to think about why this might [...]

27 Aug

DX_SourceOutliner v2.0 Redesign Concepts (final installment)

This is the last in a series of posts here and here about my design ideas for re-engineering the DX_SourceOutliner to improve its design as well as increase its flexibility and extensibility for the future.
Observed Theme 4: Analysis of Code Element Metadata
The .NET WinForms TreeNode class provides a node.Tag property of type object, the intended [...]

24 Aug

DX_SourceOutliner v2.0 Redesign Concepts (continued)

This is the second in a series of posts about my thoughts on my redesign of the DX_SourceOutliner Visual Studio DXCore-based plugin that started here.
Observed Theme 3: Decision Logic is (Mostly) Driven by User Options
As mentioned, one of the very serious growing problems with the present design of the DX_SourceOutliner is that of decentralized decision [...]

21 Aug

DX_SourceOutliner v2 Design Concepts

In a past post, I mentioned that I am in the process of declaring ‘Technical Bankruptcy’ on my DX_SourceOutliner project.  I wanted to share some of my thoughts on what’s wrong with the present approach to the design and what new ideas I have to try to address the problems.  As mentioned in my prior [...]

20 Aug

Refactor_UpdateNamespace now supports VB.NET too!

For those of you interested in using my DXCore Refactor_UpdateNamespace plugin (see here and here for more details) but hampered by the fact that prior releases supported only C# and not VB.NET, you will be happy to know that a new version is now available for download that corrects this limitation. 
Two Properties, Same Concept, [...]

11 Aug

Refactor_UpdateNamespace v1.0 Updated with Bug-Fix

Yesterday I announced the release of v1.0 of the DXCore plugin as described in this post.  Almost immediately upon its release, someone pointed out a pretty embarrassing  bug that I had apparently failed to test for: the plugin only replaced the portion of the existing namespace string that fell between pairs of periods (”.”) rather [...]

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