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Use Capped collection on MongoAppender for Log4Net

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:58 GMT

How to create Capped Collection with C# code, to make log4Net appender directly create capped collection if the collection does not already exists

Shim and InstanceBehavior fallthrough to isolate part of the SUT

Thu, 10 May 2012 17:07:01 GMT

Thanks to the new Shim Library in Visual Studio11 it is possible to isolate part of the SUT to write Unit Test for difficult to test classes.

Getting the list of Type associated to a given export in MEF

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:34:49 GMT

In this post I explain how to find concrete types imported by MEF for a given Export Type. This functionality is not directly exposed by MEF, but you can find it simply iterating inside ComposableParts and metadata of a Container.

instantiate WCF host class with MEF in a request/response service

Tue, 08 May 2012 17:06:29 GMT

This is the fourth part of a series that explain how to build a super simple Request/Response service with WCF. In this fourth part I explain how to configure WCF to create instance of the service with MEF, to discover all the request handlers at runtime.

Using Shims in Visual Studio 11 to test untestable code.

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:39:52 GMT

New upcoming version of Visual Studio, codename VisualStudio11 contains a library to isolate call to static and non-virtual function to simply testing of classes written without unit testing in mind.

Request Response service, separate contract and business logic

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:20:43 GMT

The third part of a series of articles devoted to the creation of a basic Request/response service in WCF. In this article I show how to use MEF to automatic load the handlers for the requests.

Upgrade TFS2010 to TFS11 with Detach and Attach

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 06:13:23 GMT

Upgrade a Team Foundation Server Project Collection from TFS2010 to TFS11 Beta with Detach/Attach and post update manual procedure.

Running NUnit and xUnit tests in TFS11 build

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:18:32 GMT

This post shows how simple is to run NUnit and xUnit tests during a Team Foundation Server 11 build.

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)

Renaming a property in RavenDb with HTTP API

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:38:31 GMT

How to rename a property in RavenDb Documents with HTTP API and set-based operation.

Configure WebMatrix/IIS Express to work with WP7 on Windows 7

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:34:18 GMT

This post describes how to Configure WebMatrix/IIS Express to work with WP7 on Windows 7

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.

Design time data in WPF and Blend with little effort

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:28:43 GMT

Simple article that shows how easy is to create Design Time Data in WPF for Blend.

Customize aspect of output window in visual studio 2010

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:06:06 GMT

Write a simple Visual Studio 2010 addin to format the content of the "output" window.

Assert on number and text of Nhibernate queries during a unit test

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:38:28 GMT

A test helper class that permits me to assert on the number and text of the query that Nhibernate issued to the database during the test

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.

A visual studio macro to automate Attach to IIS procedure

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 23:59:17 GMT

A simple macro to create a shortcut like CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+I to attach to local IIS process to speedup debugging sessions.

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.