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Handy Web Development Technique

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I'm working on a fantastic website that I hope will have significant impact when it's ready. I'm planning on launching in roughly one month. I came across what I think is an awesome technique for seeing how you web page will look as you edit it. This is WAY beyond WYSIWIG: Load the page you're working on in ALL the browser you care about. I'm using Chrome 4, FireFox 3.6, and IE 8.If you have the monitor space, cascade these browsers side-by-side.Add a meta-refresh tag to the header of that HTML file ... (more)

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tags: ASP.NET, CSS, DevelopMentor, techniques, we design, Web

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Building Windows Machines in Amazon EC2

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In this article I'm going to give you a simple, step-by-step overview of how to create a Windows 2008 server image in Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) infrastructure. Now I must admit I'd rather have found a good tutorial on The Internets or even in a book. Feel free to send me any I missed. My experience is they are either dated or about Linux and so on... First, briefly why does one care about EC2? Well maybe you are buying into the whole cloud computing story which lets you cheaply out-source... (more)

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tags: Amazon, Amazon EC2, Cloud, EC2, Virtual

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Article: 10 Features in .NET 4.0 that made Me Smile

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Article: 10 Features in .NET 4.0 that made Me Smile

I recently wrote another article for DevelopMentor's Developments newsletter (not subscribed yet? see top-right of this page). This one is entitled 10 Features in .NET 4.0 that made Me Smile Read it on the DevelopMentor website: http://www.develop.com/tenfeaturesdotnet4 I am republishing it below for you all to enjoy on your RSS readers. Cheers, Michael (more)

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tags: .net 4, .Net 4.0, DevelopMentor, VS2010, WCF 4, WF 4

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ASP.NET WebForms Routing Video and Downloads

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ASP.NET WebForms Routing Video and Downloads

I recently did a webcast for DevelopMentor on using the routing framework introduced in ASP.NET MVC within ASP.NET WebForms based applications to build more modern websites without a major rewrite of existing web applications. The talk was called "Building Modern Websites with ASP.NET WebForms". Here's all the related downloads. We had some microphone troubles so I want to apologize in advance for the sub-optimal sound quality. You can also download the slides and peepleocity.c... (more)

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tags: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, DevelopMentor, Screencast, web 2.0, WebCast

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Six Things That’ll Surprise You About .NET 4.0

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I recently wrote an article for DevelopMentor’s Developments entitled “Six Things That’ll Surprise You About .NET 4.0” You can read the entire article (republished just below this introduction) or if you’d rather see it as a quick set of 6 sides, you can see those here: Six Things That’ll Surprise You About .NET 4.0by Michael Kennedy In this article, we will explore some of the new features of the .NET 4.0 as well as Visual Studio 2010. Some of these features are well-known, but others hav... (more)

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tags: .NET, .net 4, article, DevelopMentor, Visual Basic 2010, VS 2010

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Visual Studio Tricks: Managing the Recent Projects List

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Visual Studio Tricks: Managing the Recent Projects List

Welcome to my third Visual Studio tricks post. This time it's more of a utility, than a tip. I want to talk about managing the recently projects list. If you're like me, then you work with many different projects (especially after I teach a class) and your recent project list becomes polluted with projects you don't care about. In this post, "Recent Projects in Visual Studio 2005", .net DEvHammer discusses how to access the registry to alter that list. Well, I didn't feel like going to ... (more)

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tags: Tool, Tools, Visual Studio

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Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms

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Webcast: Building Modern Apps in ASP.NET WebForms

At DevelopMentor we have been running a bunch of free webcasts. Last month it was TDD and Agile. This month we are running 4 webcasts celebrating the announcements around .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, and PDC 2009. Join me Monday, November 23rd and register here: http://bit.ly/aspwebforms We’ll talk about integrating ASP.NET’s routing infrastructure into existing an ASP.NET WebForms application. This allows you to build SEO websites with URLs like http://dotnet.ubbuzz.com/tag/.NET+4.0 whi... (more)

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tags: ASP .NET, ASP .NET 4, ASP .NET MVC, DevelopMentor, Free, WebForms

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TDD Space Invaders Video and Downloads

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Recently Llewellyn Falco and I did a webcast for DevelopMentor where we demonstrated some TDD techniques and introduced Approval Tests. We let the audience choose our project and they chose Space Invaders. It was all great fun. Now the videos and MP3 streams are online and available for download. Be sure to check out the write-up we did afterward where we talked about the tools and gave you a chance to try it for yourself: TDD Space Invaders Write-up You can also watch two other, higher leve... (more)

category: Agile | clicked: 27 | comment | | source: www.michaelckennedy.net

tags: DevelopMentor, ReSharper, TDD, Unit Test, unit testing, Unit Tests

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Blendable MVVM: WCF and Asynch Data Sources

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Blendable MVVM: WCF and Asynch Data Sources

Wrapping up building a Blendable View Model for Silverlight by connecting to a WCF Service (more)

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tags: Blend, MVVM, Silverlight, WCF

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TDD Invades Space Invaders

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A joint post by Llewellyn Falco and Michael Kennedy As a follow-up to our "Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing" article we did a webcast where we took a problem from the audience and solved it live and unrehearsed on stage. These kinds of performances are always a risk but that's part of what makes them fun. Of course, the question is could we have done it better? Here's your chance to try it for yourself (details below). The Problem: Our viewers chose to have us build the game Space I... (more)

category: Agile | clicked: 46 | comment | | source: www.michaelckennedy.net

tags: Games, TDD, Unit Test, unit testing

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Attend My Live, Free TDD Webinar with Llewellyn Falco and Myself at 10am Tomorrow!

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Attend My Live, Free TDD Webinar with Llewellyn Falco and Myself at 10am Tomorrow!

Tomorrow at 10am Pacific time Llewellyn Falco and I will be giving a live, unscripted, and no safety-net demonstration of Test Driven Development (TDD) as part of the DevelopMentor webinar series (this particular series is a 3-part series on Agile development). We already have a bunch of attendees registered. But we have room for as many of you who are interested in agile and TDD. Sign up here: http://bit.ly/dm-tdd-m-and-l In addition to core TDD techniques, you will see how an amazing techniqu... (more)

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tags: Screencast, TDD, WebCast

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Boot to VHD Screencast

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Have you hear of the new feature in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 called Boot to VHD? It is amazing! But it's one of those concepts that people hear about and think "hmm, interesting." But when people see it in action it's "OMG, I must have this!" (more)

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Article: Building a Twitter Application in .NET

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Article: Building a Twitter Application in .NET

I recently wrote an article for DevelopMentor's Developments newsletter entitled Building a Twitter Application in .NET. You can read it at the DevelopMentor website: http://www.develop.com/twitternetapps I've republished here for my readers. Enjoy! Building a Twitter Application in .NET by Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) http://www.michaelckennedy.net Twitter has become one of the web's hottest properties. It is a central part of mainstream news programs ... (more)

category: ASP.NET | clicked: 61 | comment | | source: www.michaelckennedy.net

tags: article, Rest Starter Kit, RESTful, Twitter, WCF

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Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Article: Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing

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Michael C. Kennedy's Weblog - Article: Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing

Llewellyn Falco and I recently wrote an article for DevelopMentor's Developments newsletter entitled Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing. You can read it at the DevelopMentor website: http://www.develop.com/testingpitfalls I've republished here for my readers. Enjoy! Avoiding 5 Common Pitfalls in Unit Testing by Llewellyn Falco and Michael Kennedy When I started out with unit tests, I was enthralled with the promise of ease and secur... (more)

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tags: article, TDD, Unit Test, unit testing

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Debugging the Future (Advanced .NET Debugging) Video Presentation

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Debugging the Future (Advanced .NET Debugging) Video Presentation

My esteemed colleague, friend, and fellow instructor at DevelopMentor Jason Whittington gave a great presentation on advanced .NET debugging recently at the Oklahoma City Developer's Group. They luckily recorded it on video and published it on their website so that it may "live on in the Google". Debugging The Future: The Video by Jason Whittington If you want to debug .NET applications right down to their memory footprint, this talk is for you. If you like this type of presentat... (more)

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tags: .NET, Debugging, runtime

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Article: Azure Storage

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These scalable, reliable, and geographically-replicated applications that run on Azure depend on data of course. Virtually all applications we write will be nothing without their underlying data. But if we simply use the tried and true methods of data storage such as the file system or a (single) database server our data is not all that scalable or reliable. Because we cannot have a scalable and reliable application without data, we need a new mechanism for storing and accessing data from our Azure appli... (more)

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tags: Azure, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Queues, Azure Table Storage

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Significant Advances in Unit Testing Windows Workflow

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Significant Advances in Unit Testing Windows Workflow

This post describes a unit testing library for testing Windows Workflow Foundations. It is not a framework like HarnessIt, NUnit, or MsTest. Rather it's a library that can be used in conjunction with any of these testing frameworks. Download the library with sample test project here: Kennedy.WorkflowTesting.zip (216 KB) You can also just jump to the code. If you like this post, be sure to First a Little History: Last S... (more)

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tags: Unit Test, unit testing, Unit Tests, WF, workflow

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RESTful Web Services with WCF Screencast

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RESTful Web Services with WCF Screencast

I recently got the chance to record a screencast discussing REST-oriented web services in WCF. If you're interested in WCF you should definitely check it out because WCF and REST make an awesome combination. WCF-REST-Kennedy-Peepleocity.wmv 35 MB (WMV HD) I cover building WCF services using REST princples, the WebGet and WebInvoke attributes, working with the SyndicationFeed & Rss20FeedFormatter classes, and configuration-free WCF hosting in IIS. You can also download the source code of the pr... (more)

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tags: Screencast, WCF, WCF 3.5., Web applications

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Keep up with DevelopMentor on Twitter

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Introducing DevelopMentor's Twitter presence: @dmthecompany I encourage you get out there and follow us! (more)

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tags: Community, Community News, Training

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Gmail New Mail Notifications for Windows 7

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Gmail New Mail Notifications for Windows 7

[Update: Renamed this tool from Gmailer to Gmail 7 due to pre-exiting product name conflicts] I've been using Windows 7 as my sole operating system since Beta 1 in January. I'm completely loving it and I was pleased to see how many apps worked seamlessly on it. One that didn't and I really miss is Gmail Notifier. No matter how I try, I always get this: It's insane to me that $130B company can't provide any more than this outdated tool for this job, but I di... (more)

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