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November 2004 - Posts

• SDC Tools and NCover

  There has been a lot of great information over at Andrew's blog about testing and build systems , but this has mainly been focused around NAnt - I prefer the SDC Build Tools, mainly for it's innate support for MS applications such as Commerce Server, Read More... Posted 22 November 2004 15:22 by howard.vanrooijen | 3 Comments Filed under: .NET, TDD, Engineering Practices, Tools

• Article: Making Code Coverage more palatable with NCoverViewer and NCoverBrowser

  I've just posted a new article about using NCover, NCoverGui and NCover Browser, called Making Code Coverage more palatable with NCoverViewer and NCoverBrowser . Read More... Posted 22 November 2004 15:07 by howard.vanrooijen | 1 Comments Filed under: Agile, .NET, TDD, Engineering Practices, Tools

• When Hard Drives Attack.....

  First they start making kerrrunching noises, then they lock up your OS. So it's Hi Ho, Hi Ho, off to Internal Systems for a replacement and a rebuild I go.... There are always lots of niggling set up / configuring activities I have to do when I rebuild Read More... Posted 17 November 2004 16:09 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Musings

• Howard's List of Ultimate Visual Studio.NET AddIns

  After reading Scott Hanselman’s post “ Scott’s List of Ultimate Visual Studio.NET AddIns ” I decided to put my own together, especially as I was told during my last appraisal that I’d have to give a presentation to our .NET Read More... Posted 14 November 2004 23:55 by howard.vanrooijen | 6 Comments Filed under: .NET, Engineering Practices, Tools

• Agile Modeling and Iterative Development

  Dave Hayden blogs about Craig Larman's book Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development . An important note is that “the output of an iteration is not an experimental or throw-away Read More... Posted 14 November 2004 23:10 by howard.vanrooijen | 2 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum

• Steve Garnett: Scrum Practitioner

  Ok it doesn't roll off the tongue like " Pet Detective " or " Male Gigolo " but congratulations to Steve Garnett on becoming a Scrum Practitioner! There are currently only 10 in the world! I've had the pleasure of working with Steve on 3 projects during Read More... Posted 10 November 2004 16:09 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Scrum

• Visual Studio IntelliSense for SDC Build Scripts

  Navigate to your install directory for the SDC Build Tools ; copy Microsoft.Sdc.Configuration.BizTalk.1.2.xsd and Microsoft.Sdc.Configuration.Build.1.2.xsd from the \ Install\Build directory to the [Visual Studio .NET 2003 Install Path] \Common7\Packages\schemas\xml\ Read More... Posted 09 November 2004 11:28 by howard.vanrooijen | 1 Comments Filed under: .NET, Tools

• Tips for posting .NET code snippets

  If anyone is blogging .NET code snippets, you need to get the Copy Source as HTML Visual Studio Add-in. Read More... Posted 09 November 2004 10:43 by howard.vanrooijen | 9 Comments

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  I've finally made it round to writing my first Conchango blog - readers of my other blog shouldn't worry - I will still be posting to it - but I'm going to be taking a more EenieMeanieMineyMo approach. For those who don't know I'm a Senior Technology Read More... Posted 09 November 2004 10:31 by howard.vanrooijen | 0 Comments Filed under: Agile, Scrum, .NET, TDD, Engineering Practices, Team System, Tools