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So What Exactly is a View-Model?

So What Exactly is a View-Model? After being introduced to the term “view-model,” most developers start by using them as a dumping ground for everything. This article explores some of the many roles assumed by the view-model and asks the question, “What really belongs in the view-model?”

Jonathan Allen
on Oct 23, 2012
A User’s Story: DubDubDeploy

When Donte Ormsby came to us, it was just a friendly letter to say that he found a great tool for simplifying website deployment using ASP.NET and thought our reader might find it useful. After talking a bit, we decided the best way to introduce DubDubDeploy to you would be for him to just tell his story.

Donte Ormsby
on Oct 11, 2012
Continuous Integration with MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 2

In part one we looked at using MSBuild in a general sense. Part 2 we apply that knowledge to a specific continuous integration server, namely Jenkins. We choose Jenkins because it is an open source project that supports a wide variety of projects, making it ideal for heterogeneous environments.

Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali
on Oct 01, 2012
Continuous Integration with MSBuild and Jenkins – Part 1

In this first of a two-part series, Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali looks at implementing a continuous integration system using MSBuild. Part two will how to integrate this into Jenkins, an extendable continuous integration server with support for a wide variety of operating systems and programming languages.

Mustafa Saeed Haji Ali
on Sep 20, 2012
Jason Zander on Visual Studio's Past, Present, and Future

InfoQ recently had an exclusive interview with Microsoft's Jason Zander to discuss the latest release of Visual Studio and the state of the project as a whole. The wide ranging talk covered everything from C99/C+11 standards compliance plans, to cross-platform support and how Microsoft tries to balance the needs of corporate developers with those of smaller, independent users.

Jeff Martin
on Sep 19, 2012
Plastic SCM – DVCS at Enterprise Level

Building on his earlier article, “Distributed Version Control Systems in the Enterprise”, Pablo Santos discusses his company’s product: PlasticSCM. While other DVCS systems were designed for the needs of the Linux open source community, PlasticSCM addresses the problems facing enterprise software developers, especially those using .NET.

Pablo Santos
on Aug 13, 2012
Introducing: Restful Objects

Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

Dan Haywood Richard Pawson
on Jul 19, 2012
Cut off wrong dependencies in your .NET code

Patrick Smacchia advises developers to treat each namespace in an application as a component, and make sure there are no dependency cycles between your components. He claims that by abiding by this simple tenet, the structure of a large application can’t diverge to the monolithic block of spaghetti code base that seems to be the rule more than the exception in enterprise professional development.

Patrick Smacchia
on Jul 16, 2012
Testing SQL Server Code with TST

Automated Testing (unit/integration) is an integral part of any agile development process. However a project with significant logic housed in database code creates severe constraints to writing unit level tests, especially if it is large, complex and depend on data. We will explore the TST framework and a few ideas for writing and maintaining good tests for database code.

Roopesh Shenoy
on Jun 18, 2012
Interview with Alessandro Del Sole, Author of LightSwitch Unleashed

Visual Studio LightSwitch is Microsoft’s attempt to offer a tool that people with little or no programming experience to create simple and effective line-of-business applications. We spoke with Alessandro Del Sole, author of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed, to get some more insights into the product.

Jonathan Allen
on Jun 15, 2012
Interview with Mathew MacDonald, Author of Pro Silverlight 5 in C#

We spoke with Matthew MacDonald about Silverlight’s role in the developer’s toolbox and how that role is shifting from cross-platform development to line of business applications. Also covered are some of the highlights from Silverlight 5 and a sample chapter on Silverlight animation from his book.

Jonathan Allen
on May 29, 2012
Writing a Comprehensive Unit Test

A common theme amongst people professing “best practices” for unit tests is that you should only write a single assertion for each test. People who make these proclamations rarely show any unit test and those that do only show one. Yet this pattern may require a dozen other unit tests to ensure quality for even a trivial operation. This article uses examples to question that recommendation.

Jonathan Allen
on May 24, 2012