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Name:	tdupont
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Coding Horror: So You Want to be a Programmer - Jeff Atwood

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hilarycook 341 days, 12 hours, 17 minutes ago

Jeff Atwood: I didn't intend for Please Don't Learn to Code to be so controversial, but it seemed to strike a nerve. Apparently a significant percentage of readers stopped reading at the title.... (more)

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Configuring MVC Bundles with NuGet

published 358 days, 19 hours, 22 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 367 days, 8 hours, 51 minutes ago

MvcBundleConfig is a very simple project that adds configuration and debugging features to MVC 4's bundling framework. Once you create a new MVC4 web application and install the MvcBundleConfig NuGet Package, then you need only update our layout to use the new bundle extension methods, and you are ready to go! (more)

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Tuple in C# 4.0

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DotNetJalps 404 days, 19 hours, 4 minutes ago

C# 4.0 language includes a new feature called Tuple. Tuple provides us a way of grouping elements of different data type. That enables us to use it a lots places at practical world like we can store a coordinates of graphs etc. In C# 4.0 we can create Tuple with Create method. This Create method offer 8 overload like following. So you can group maximum 8 data types with a Tuple. Followings are overloads of a data type. Create(T1)- Which represents a tuple of size 1 Create(T1,T2)- Which represents a tup... (more)

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12 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of April 2012

published 379 days, 15 hours, 56 minutes ago posted by

MikeMore 386 days, 3 hours, 17 minutes ago

Here we are again for another monthly round-up of the most popular jQuery plugins of April 2012, these 12 plugins will make you WOW! (more)

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Configuring WebClient Timeout and ConnectionLimit

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tdupont 380 days, 9 hours, 37 minutes ago

It is great how simple the WebClient class is to use, but unfortunately it does not natively support configuring it's timeout or connection limit. Good news, both of these issues are very easy to fix by simply extending the WebClient class. (more)

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xUnit Theory, the Data Driven Unit Test

published 396 days, 13 hours, 45 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 405 days, 20 hours, 12 minutes ago

A good set of unit tests often end up reusing the same code with varied inputs. Rather than copy and paste that test code over and over, we can use the pattern of data driven unit tests to help streamline our test fixtures. This is the practice of having a single test definition be invoked and count as multiple tests at run time. This also enables us to do other dynamic things, such as configuring our unit tests from external sources. :) I love NUnit, but it does not offer data driven unit tests. I freq... (more)

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Migrating from NUnit to xUnit

published 410 days, 4 hours, 53 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 411 days, 17 hours, 36 minutes ago

If you are currently using NUnit to write your unit tests, then it is not at all difficult to migrate to using xUnit. The philosophical difference between the two is simply this: with xUnit you need to think of your tests as objects, rather than of methods. Here is a visual representation of equivalent test setups between NUnit and xUnit... (more)

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Configuring Bundles in MVC 4

published 416 days, 17 hours, 9 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 420 days, 10 hours, 7 minutes ago

The bundling, compression, and minification of JavaScript is important to the speed and performance of modern websites. This is why I was so excited to hear that such features were (finally) coming built in to ASP.NET MVC 4. Introducing MvcBundleConfig: a project that adds configuration and debugging features to MVC 4's bundling framework, and meets the needs and wants of a good minification framework. (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 41 | comment | | source: www.tomdupont.net

tags: Bundle, Combres, Compression, JavaScript, MvcBundleConfig, CSS, minification, MVC, MVC4

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Sharing a WebDriver across TestFixtures

published 467 days, 7 hours, 8 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 469 days, 6 hours, 47 minutes ago

WebDriver (also known as Selenium 2.0) is a web testing tool that is both useful and easy, which is a very rare find. If you are doing web development with ASP.NET, you need to take 30 minutes of your time and go try out WebDriver. That is all the time it will take to get you hooked. To launch a browser you need only new up a Driver object for that browser. I used to create a new Driver in my TestFixtureSetup, and then close and dispose of that in the testFixtureTearDown. However now that Firefox does n... (more)

category: Web Dev | clicked: 13 | comment | | source: www.tomdupont.net

tags: WebDriver, unit testing, Selenium

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Configuring MVC Routes in Web.config

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tdupont 568 days, 20 hours, 9 minutes ago

By simply reading routes out of the Web.config you provide a way to control routing without having to redeploy code, allowing you to enable or disable website functionality on the fly. (more)

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tags: Routing, Configuration, MVC

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Using the InternetExplorerDriver for WebDriver

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tdupont 586 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes ago

Are you getting this error when trying to use the InternetExplorerDriver for WebDriver (Selenium 2.0)? "System.InvalidOperationException: Unexpected error launching Internet Explorer. Protected Mode must be set to the same value (enabled or disabled) for all zones. (NoSuchDriver)" Don't worry, it's easier to fix than it sounds... (more)

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tags: TDD, Selenium 2, Internet Explorer, Unit Test, WebDriver

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Zen and the Art of Dependency Injection in MVC

published 664 days, 7 hours, 21 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 666 days, 12 hours, 22 minutes ago

Right out of the box the MVC model binders are already injecting models straight into your controllers, so why not take it one more step forward and inject your services too? If you are not already doing TDD with Dependency Injection, then it is time to start. On the plus side, thanks to tools like NuGet, it has never been easier to get started with all of these new fun techniques! (more)

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tags: TDD, Ninject, dependency injection, MVC, NuGet

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Preview: CodeSmith 6 Template Explorer

published 672 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 673 days, 10 hours, 47 minutes ago

The CodeSmith Team has been hard at work updating the CodeSmith Generator to use an all new WPF UI. Beyond having a sleek new look, the new template explorer also includes full file system functionality. Check it out and leave feedback now, because it is very close to its first public beta. (more)

category: UX | clicked: 20 | comment | | source: community.codesmithtools.com

tags: WPF, Code Generation, CodeSmith

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Video: CodeSmith 6.0 Editor in Action

published 672 days, 18 hours, 59 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 681 days, 12 hours, 19 minutes ago

This short video shows the new CodeSmith Generator 6.0 Editor in action. This new editor will make the CodeSmith Template editing experience about 10 times better than it was before (yes, that is a scientific measurement), and that is not even counting that it will be integrated right into Visual Studio. There is still more work to do, but a beta version is coming soon. (more)

category: UX | clicked: 44 | 5 comments | | source: community.codesmithtools.com

tags: Visual Studio Plugin, Code Generation, CodeSmith

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CodeSmith Spotlight: Silverlight MVVM Templates

published 680 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 683 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes ago

Oscar Agreda authored a set of templates that are capable of generating an entire Silverlight application that follows Microsoft best practices. He explains: "Microsoft hired a group of top Silverlight Business experts to create the MVVM PDC presentation for the creation of truly Silverlight Business Application using the MvvM pattern, unfortunately the sample application from the presentation is not very useful and extremely small, besides there are many topics that were not covered, John Papa would ha... (more)

category: Metro | clicked: 30 | comment | | source: community.codesmithtools.com

tags: Silvelight, Code Generation, CodeSmith, MVVM

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Preview: CodeSmith 6 Editor Improvements

published 684 days, 19 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 687 days, 12 hours, 3 minutes ago

The CodeSmith Team has been hard at work on the new Visual Studio Template Editor and existing Visual Studio Integration story. In Generator 6 you will be able to create, edit, and run template entirely from within Visual Studio. Check it out and leave feedback now, because it is very close to it's first public beta. (more)

category: UX | clicked: 10 | comment | | source: community.codesmithtools.com

tags: Code Generation, Visual Studio, CodeSmith

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PLINQO for NHibernate 1.0 Released

published 689 days, 20 hours, 11 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 690 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes ago

PLINQO makes NHibernate "so easy, even a caveman can do it." PLINQO can generated your HBM files, entity classes, and all NHibernate configuration in seconds. It then allows you to safely regenerate that code at anytime, thus synchronizing your mappings with the database while still intelligently preserving custom changes. (more)

category: Data | clicked: 26 | comment | | source: community.codesmithtools.com

tags: NHibernate, Code Generation, CodeSmith, ORM, PLINQO

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PLINQO for Entity Framework v1.1 Released

published 703 days, 20 hours, 49 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 705 days, 12 hours, 20 minutes ago

PLINQO for Entity Framework 1.1 adds support for Stored Procedures, and adds Query Extensions for views. PLINQO for Entity Framework brings the simplifications, optimizations, and convenience of the highly successful PLINQO (for LINQ to SQL) to Entity Framework 4.1. PLINQO for Entity Framework includes: Safe regeneration of your EDMX, intelligently merges data and code changes, generates chainable query extension methods, and includes a quickstart to started in 30 seconds or less. (more)

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tags: Entity Framework, Code Generation, ORM, PLINQO

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Announcing the CodeSmith 6.0 Visual Studio Editor

published 722 days, 10 hours, 2 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 723 days, 11 hours, 52 minutes ago

CodeSmith Generator 6.0 will feature a built-in Visual Studio CodeSmith Generator Template Editor on top of the already existing Visual Studio Integration. This means you can use a familiar development interface to develop, edit and generate templates. Without further ado... (more)

category: UX | clicked: 36 | 2 comments | | source: community.codesmithtools.com

tags: Code Generation, CodeSmith

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Error Reporting Service with Graphical Reports

published 738 days, 20 hours, 38 minutes ago posted by

tdupont 739 days, 12 hours, 52 minutes ago

CodeSmith Insight now offers graphical reports that show you the health of your application. CodeSmith Insight's reports can provide visualizations that are invaluable to the maintenance, support, and growth of your applications. CodeSmith Insight is an Error Reporting Service that ensures you will always receive a complete report of every issue that your end users will experience. Insight will automatically capture, submit, organize, and prioritize all errors that occur in your applications. Once this ... (more)

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tags: Error Reporting Service, CodeSmith Insight, CodeSmith, Reports

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Coding Horror: So You Want to be a Programmer - Jeff Atwood

Configuring MVC Bundles with NuGet

Tuple in C# 4.0

12 Most Popular jQuery Plugins of April 2012

Configuring WebClient Timeout and ConnectionLimit

xUnit Theory, the Data Driven Unit Test

Migrating from NUnit to xUnit

Configuring Bundles in MVC 4

Sharing a WebDriver across TestFixtures

Configuring MVC Routes in Web.config

Using the InternetExplorerDriver for WebDriver

Zen and the Art of Dependency Injection in MVC

Preview: CodeSmith 6 Template Explorer

Video: CodeSmith 6.0 Editor in Action

CodeSmith Spotlight: Silverlight MVVM Templates

Preview: CodeSmith 6 Editor Improvements

PLINQO for NHibernate 1.0 Released

PLINQO for Entity Framework v1.1 Released

Announcing the CodeSmith 6.0 Visual Studio Editor

Error Reporting Service with Graphical Reports

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