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Interesting links for Visual Studio 11 and TFS 11 Beta

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:29:11 GMT

A series of links related to Visual Studio 11 ALM (VS11 + TFS11)

WP7 Unit Testing - getting started

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:39:36 GMT

this post explains how to successfully setup a Windows Phone 7 Unit Testing project using the NuGet Package Manager extension for Visual Studio 2010.

WP7 - Test if your ViewModel is serializable

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:38:56 GMT

Shows how to test if your ViewModel is Serializable, it can be useful if you persist the viewmodel in the phone application state dictionary.

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:30:11 GMT

A list of useful link for Team Foundation Server, if you use TFS you probably will find these useful.

Searching in TFS Work Items never was so Easy thanks to Power Tools

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:33:32 GMT

A post that explains how to search work item in Team Foundation Server with Web Access or the new Searchbox introduced in TFS Power Tools of August 2011 (That was improved in the December 2011 release)

Host a WCF service with SSL and self issued certificate

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:33:04 GMT

When you use SSL for your WCF service it is really useful to be able to work with self issue certificates for dev machine.

Deep dive in Process template's states and transitions

Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:47:13 GMT

Seventh part of a series of articles dedicated to Team Foundation Server customization of Work Items definition. In this part I'll show how to add rules to transition and states of the Work Item.

Wich version of IE is used by the WebBrowser control?

Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:40:20 GMT

If you use WebBrowser control il .NET, you already know that it uses IE rendering engine, but probably you miss the fact that, unless you change some registry keys, you are using the IE control in IE7 compatibility mode. In this article I explain how to choose with registry keys wich version of IE to use in WebBrowser control

Create Visual Studio Macro to attach to IIS process

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:19:58 GMT

Visual Studio Macro are really powerful, thanks to few lines of code you can write a macro to automatically attach to IIS process and it is able to show you a simple user interface to choose the IIS process to debug when multiple worker process are running.

Use Sql Server Query Hints with NHibernate HQL and ICriteria

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:34:28 GMT

Sometimes you got bad performance from SQL query due to caching of execution plan, in this article I outline the problem and show you how you can add query hints to nhibernate HQL and ICriteria Query.

Fetching collections with NHibernate, a mistake a I always do!

Wed, 20 Jul 2011 16:22:29 GMT

Be careful when optimizing your queries using join fetching in NHibernate! If you do it without care you can incur in my same mistakes!

NHibernate.Envers - Querying - part 2

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 14:18:14 GMT

Third Article of the NHibernate.Envers series, this time we'll see how to query the database for the revision history detailed information (revision number, timestamp, operation type and entity snapshot).

Entity Framework 4.1 - manage relations

Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:20:30 GMT

How you manage relations between objects with Entity Framework 4.1 Code First approach.

A Bunch of link for TFS ecosystem

Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:47:03 GMT

A list of links to useful third party tools for Team Foundation Server.

Customize State and Transitions of a Work Item

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:53:04 GMT

Sixth part of a series of post that deal with Customization of the Process Template of Team Foundation Server, in this post I explain how to work with State and Transition of Work Items.

Linq to NHibernate - String.Equals with StringComparison option

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 09:09:04 GMT

How to extend the Linq to NHibernate provider to support the overloaded String.Equals(string ,StringComparison)

NHibernate.Envers - Querying - part 1

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:48:11 GMT

NHibernate.Envers - Qurying - Part 1 of a series in which we'll talk about how to query for the revision history data of the entities we audit.

NHibernate.Envers - a quick introduction

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:56:57 GMT

A quick introduction to NHibernate.Envers, shows how to setup the environment to enable rich auditing on entities.

WPF, Silverlight, WP7 and the Async CTP

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:06:15 GMT

Asynchronous programming with the Async CTP on WPF, Silverlight and WP7

WP7 - A DataContractSerializer Bug ?

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:30:36 GMT

Shows you a nasty serialization bug that affect the DataContractSerializer in WP7

WP7 - Backup Service

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:28:04 GMT

A project that realize a generic backup service to be used in all your WP7 applications. It offers the support for multiple apps and multiple backup and restore points. The project is open source on CodePlex.

WPF - skinning the ComboBox moving the DropDown Menu around

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:24:42 GMT

How to skin a ComboBox dropdown menu in WPF.

WP7 - adding a 'Fade to Black' effect to a ListBox

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 20:37:33 GMT

A small how to tutorial on adding a 'fade to black' effect on ListBox controls in WP7

NHibernate ConfORM Mapping Explorer

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:04:31 GMT

This post presents the very first preview release for of the Nhibernate ToolBox Mapping Explorer utility. You can use it to display and navigate through the mapping automatically generated by ConfORM.

Display complex log information during a tfs 2010 build

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:43:31 GMT

This post explains how you can display complex information during a build from a Custom Activity, thans to a Visual Studio plug-in dedicated to visualize this data.