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Refactor 
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K. Scott Allen, May 8, 2008
Daily Standup Transcription 06 May 2008 1300 Zulu Time In 00:02:34.66
" so, yesterday I continued the refactorafication of some classes. The job isn't easy, but I'm going to work hard and continue th...
Shaun Walker, May 7, 2008
When it comes to software, a component or service which survives for an extended period of time without substantial refactoring is generally considered to be an anomoly. However, there are cases when ...
Tom Hollanders blog, April 29, 2008
About a year ago I put together a post called Thoughts On Product Management, containing some random musings about my role at the time. The big reason I put together this post was because so few peopl...
Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, April 20, 2008
Thursday afternoon my first Microsoft Global MVP Summit officially came to an end, sadly. But that did not mean the experience ended. Even now I am still in Seattle on Saturday, taking a few moments o...
K. Scott Allen, April 18, 2008
At the last CMAP Code Camp I did a "code-only" presentation entitled "A Gentle Introduction to Mocking". We wrote down some requirements, opened Visual Studio, and started writing unit tests. Matt...
Steven Smith, April 15, 2008
I've been posting about some feature requests for ASP.NET/Visual Studio, so here's one more in that thread. One nice feature of Blend is the ability to select a chunk of XAML and choose to "Extract U...
Cirrus Minor, April 15, 2008
Awhile
ago I asked "who tests the test":" One question I don't hear asked too much is "who tests the tests?"
- after all we are writing all this additional code - if we write so many bugs in
o...
Steven Smith, April 2, 2008
Not sure if it's already there, but the folks at DevExpress or JetBrains (or Microsoft, but I don't want to wait for another VS) should have a refactoring for CodeRush/Refactor! or Resharper that will...
Did it with .NET, March 14, 2008
Recently, I was refactoring some trivial F# code, and the results were so elegant
that I felt it would be instructive to share them. My tale begins simply with a list
of lists...
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Jeffrey Palermo, March 11, 2008
There is quite a bit of talk lately about unit testing using the extract method and override, or "inherit & override" method for stubbing out a method for unit testing. Methods don...
Laurent Duveau, March 3, 2008
Following my Resource Refactoring Tool post, Uwe pointed me to Zeta Resource Editor. This very nice free win app allows you to easily edit your resx files, each language in the same row! Download li...
Laurent Duveau, March 2, 2008
The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard ...
eXtensible mind, February 21, 2008
(go straight to the snippets if you can't wait ;))
Regardless of whether you use a mocking framework/library or not, as long as you're doing unit testing, you're almost for sure using mocks. Most of...
eXtensible mind, February 21, 2008
Highly recommended reading: Fowler's article Mocks aren't Stubs. It's a very clear characterization of the types of so-called Test Doubles (mocks, fakes, stubs, etc.) you can use to aid your unit test...
eXtensible mind, February 21, 2008
Most projects use ""Warnings as Errors"" project-level setting together with the ""XML documentation file"" so that you can spot early on which areas of your public APIs are not documented or ...
Federal Developer Weblog, February 20, 2008
Microsoft has released a set of Power Tools for folks who use Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition Power Tools. Here's the description of what's in this free download, and it's a lot! ...
Granville Barnett, February 17, 2008
...well there still is none. I seem to be pressing commands in VS 2008 Win32 projects which would invoke pretty basic refactoring tools in C# and VB.NET but yet C++ has nothing! Now I know the VC guy...
Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET, January 24, 2008
One of my favorite tools is available for Visual Studio 2008, Refactor 2008 . If you do not know what Refactor is, it is a Visual Studio 2008 add-in that makes it very easy to refactor your code. That...
K. Scott Allen, January 21, 2008
Igor emailed me for my thoughts about his SMTP server built with Windows Workflow. A link for the source code is at the bottom of his post. As Igor points out, WF is well suited to solve more than jus...
eXtensible mind, January 20, 2008
Most projects use ""Warnings as Errors"" project-level setting together with the ""XML documentation file"" so that you can spot early on which areas of your public APIs are not documented or ...
ISerializable, January 12, 2008
I'm still struggling away with my book, and was wondering what you thought about this analogy. I am referring to the problem of testing private\public method, and in that regard I refer to the ease o...
Shaun Walker, January 8, 2008
Hello Everyone,
I just wanted to inform you that the Blog has officially been released and packages have been posted in the the Downloads area.
Here are the release notes:
BLG-6299 Blog module: Updati...
Mark Miller, January 3, 2008
Dustin has wrapped up his excellent Twelve Days of Refactor X-Mas series highlighting
refactorings that work with advanced language features in Visual Studio 2008 right
now. One of the things I ...
Jeffrey Palermo, January 2, 2008
Most of us (I think) don't have full browser automated testing through Watir or Selenium. Because of that, even though we have tons of automated NUnit tests, we could still have problem in w...
Did it with .NET, December 31, 2007
Hello again, X-mas celebrants! I
have just one last verse in my carol to
make all of your Visual
Studio 2008 experiences bright. Don't let your hearts be saddened ...
Did it with .NET, December 30, 2007
Greetings friends! I bring tidings of comfort and joy! That is, you can rest comfortably
and joyously, knowing that you don't have to wait for refactorings that leve...
The ASPx Blog, December 30, 2007
Want to learn more about the refactorings in Visual Studio 2008 from the lead developer? Dustin Campbell is doing a 12-day series on Visual Studio 2008 refactorings made specifically for Visual Basic ...
Did it with .NET, December 29, 2007
I'm afraid that I have an apology to make. I feel that I've given my Visual Basic
friends a raw deal because the verses of my carol thus
far have been primarily abo...
Mark Miller, December 28, 2007
Dustin is on day nine of his 12-day series on Refactor! Pro's
shipping support for the new language features in Visual Studio 2008, namely C#
3.0 and Visual Basic 9.0.
On day six Dustin showed C...
Did it with .NET, December 28, 2007
Welcome back for more X-mas refactoring
fun!There are just four more verses in my carol,
but I'll make them count. Refactor!
Pro can bless your Visual
Studio 200...
Did it with .NET, December 27, 2007
JustinKohnen: @dcampbell:
um... Christmas is over dude ;)
That was posted on Twitter today when I announced
that I was working on this very ...
Did it with .NET, December 26, 2007
Season's greetings!
We're halfway through my X-mas
carol describing how Refactor!
Pro can be used to leverage the new features of Visual
Studio 2008. T...
Mark Miller, December 26, 2007
Refactor! Pro3.0 is now shipping with150 refactorings.
That's not a typo. Developer Express just shattered the 150-refactoring barrier,
doubling your refactoring power in the span of a single year....
Mark Miller, December 25, 2007
So I must have been in some kind of egg nog induced coma or something....
I just checked out Dustin's Blog, and holy
crap! He's already on Day Six of his Twelve Days of Refactor! X-Mas
series!
And w...
Did it with .NET, December 25, 2007
Merry X-mas friends! It
is indeed X-mas day, and I have returned
with a special gift for you. Today, I'm doing my part to bring peace on earth and
goodwi...
Did it with .NET, December 24, 2007
'Twas the night before X-mas, when
all through the house,
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care...
Mark Miller, December 23, 2007
So, if you've even been paying attention, you know that almost one year ago, on 27
December 2006, I made a new year's resolution to ship
100 refactorings in 2007. Back then, we had an impressive 75 r...
Did it with .NET, December 23, 2007
Feliz Navidad my mistletoeaficionados!
I've just finished warming up my voice and am ready to continue my aria of Refactor!
Pro support for Visual
Studi...
Did it with .NET, December 22, 2007
Welcome back my 'nog-froth mustachioed
friends! I've returned with another helping of Refactor!
Pro goodness for Visual
Studio 2008. One scrooge commented
that th...
eXtensible mind, December 22, 2007
Highly recommended reading: Fowler's article Mocks aren't Stubs. It's a very clear characterization of the types of so-called Test Doubles (mocks, fakes, stubs, etc.) you can use to aid your unit test...
Did it with .NET, December 21, 2007
Season's greetings! Welcome back for another dose of Yuletide cheer! Yesterday,
I sang to you about one way in which Refactor!
Pro can be used to leverage the new ...
Karl Seguin [MVP], December 20, 2007
Throughout this series we've talked about the importance of testability and have looked at techniques to make it easier to test our system. It goes without saying that a major benefit of writing t...
Karl Seguin [MVP], December 20, 2007
Throughout this series we've talked about the importance of testability and have looked at techniques to make it easier to test our system. It goes without saying that a major benefit of writing t...
Karl Seguin [MVP], December 20, 2007
Throughout this series we've talked about the importance of testability and have looked at techniques to make it easier to test our system. It goes without saying that a major benefit of writing t...
Mark Miller, December 20, 2007
Today Dustin starts hisTwelve
Days of Refactor! series. Each day for the next twelve days, Dustin will write
about one of the many refactorings in Refactor!
Pro that works with the new language featu...
Did it with .NET, December 20, 2007
Gentle readers, in the spirit of X-mas,
I'd like to sing you a carol.
This jolly tune (based on a popular old
English carol) enumerates ways that Refactor!
Pro c...
Granville Barnett, December 19, 2007
As I am working on a couple of projects that are based upon C# 3.0 and haven't got my copy of Resharper installed (it just bugs me like mad with C# 3.0!) I used the VS 2008 refactoring tools today for...
The Visual Basic Team, December 12, 2007
I released a Channel 9 screencast with Lisa Feigenbaum, PM on the VB Team where she shows us how to use Refactor!, the free add-in for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 that provides over 30 refactorings fo...
Jeffrey Palermo, November 15, 2007
Tuesday at the VSLive conference in Austin, TX, I presented a session on Visual Studio 2008. This was an all-demo session, but some of the demos required some prepared code, so you can grab that...
ASP.NET Announcements, November 12, 2007
NConstruct v1.6, RAD tool for generating .NET applications, was recently released.New version includes many improvements and new features. The most important of them includes:additional database suppo...