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[...] we’re thinking about: Create a single point of entry/UX for managing dependencies in a Visual Studio project or solution – both Microsoft and 3rd party (e.g. NuGet, assemblies, NPM, Bower, [...]

[...] VS is that the tooling can be used for other things. How many keystrokes have you memorized in Visual Studio? How applicable is that knowledge to working in erlang. Lately I have been writing a lot of [...]

[...] version 5 Release Candidate has just been released! Just-in-time to be sim-shipped with Visual Studio 2013. This release represents a big achievement for us because it comes with several flagship [...]

[...] coding time is in HTML? 30 Q4: What % of your coding time is in JavaScript? 40 Q5: Do you use Visual Studio for javascript/html? There were a huge number of developers who spent 40-70% of their coding [...]

[...] test. Quite likely the tests have large numbers of dependencies. And to be frank your unit tests probably don’t run properly in linux anyways. Yeah this kind of sucks but can be fixed. [...]

[...] not something I suggest doing if at all possible Create snapshots of your Json data and write unit tests which work directly against this snapshot — This is what I suggest doing When you are [...]

[...] is easier than every today. But how do you force ModelState.IsValid to be false in a unit tests? The simple thought would be to simply create an invalid object and pass that into your action [...]

[...] . By using contracts you make unit-tests much more effective. And this is cool, because while unit tests takes time to be written, contracts takes no time to be written once you took the habit. At [...]

[...] and having the joy of manually editing .prj files). In this post we are going to install a package manager and become comfortable with its basic operations. We will need it for the next few posts [...]

[...] . We have installed sublime and learned some basic key shortcuts and we have installed a package manager with our first package. In this post we will install git integration into sublime and look at [...]

[...] then focus on doing those things really, really well. The solution is not to make one package manager the “one”, but rather to make it insanely easy (transparent-even) to use [...]

[...] just watch a few videos, getting setup is just installing a few packages through your package manager (discussed previously in this series)   WebInspector – http://sokolovstas. [...]

[...] show you how to update the WMAppManifest.xml file. This is the manifest file which is used by Windows Phone projects to determine settings. I wanted to be able to bump the version number inside this [...]

[...] In a previous post showed how to use Grunt.js to update the version number inside the Windows Phone WPAppManifest.xml file. In that post shows you how to create a custom task in grunt to [...]

[...] I am a huge fan of the Telerik Windows Phone UI controls, I think they are simple to use and they ‘JUST WORK’. When building a [...]

[...] benign change to one of my resource files I received the following error when I launched my Windows Phone 8 application in the emulator. Of course I was stumped by this, in fact in my 4+ years of [...]

[...] (days, week), Mid term (months), Long term (years). Short term means to me having my code base filled up with prioritized TODO comments, TODO5 being more urgent than TODO4. This [...]

[...] My current client is trying to add JavaScript specs to its code base and we have decided to implement a Grunt/Karma/Jasmine solution. Like many (if not most) [...]

[...] ;user spend more time browsing analysis result and discover interesting facts about his code base. User was already able to add assemblies from VS solutions, from folders (recursive or not) [...]

[...] reduce the number of bugs that hit production and to reduce the overall maintenance cost of the code base you are working on, by like an order of magnitude. I’d like to underline that Code [...]

[...] size, except that all the other ways to measure size are worse. “ My thoughts on high code coverage ratio are becoming prevalent in the NDepend codebase. With v5 we reached almost 80% of [...]

[...] , graph, treemap), code diff/baseline, code trending, reporting, code metrics including code coverage, tons of smaller-scale facilities to perform all sorts of convenient action… and many [...]

[...] setup a testing environment for our JavaScript code I wanted to also setup the ability to do code coverage on our files. To accomplish this I am going to integrate istanbul coverage reporting w/ our [...]