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Get me on stage on the Developer Days 2011
Although the Dutch Microsoft Developer Days is mostly about foreign speakers, the organization has a recurring event called the wildcard sessions. This allowed me to speak at the biggest Dutch conference of the year for two years in a row. Unfortunately, the number of proposals has exploded this ...
ALM Practices every developer should know about
So now that I’ve finished my multi-part post on getting the most out of user stories, it is time to provide a nice convenient overview of some essential practices that I’ve blogged about. I don’t have any additional parts planned, but if I come up with something new, I’ll make sure this list is u...
Fluent Assertions as a NuGet package
As of now you can download the latest version of Fluent Assertions directly from within Visual Studio 2010. Just install the NuGet package manager, select Add Library Package Reference from the project context menu and search for FluentAssertions.
Verifying PropertyChanged events in Silverlight using Fluent Assertions
Yesterday, I blogged about the newest release of Fluent Assertions for .NET and Silverlight and promised to demonstrate the new event monitoring syntax. Since I’m a Silverlight addict, I decided to show you an example of a MVVM unit test when using the traditional Assert class and the same exampl...
A new year with a new release of Fluent Assertions
Christmas usually means a week off and a whole lot of free time between the social obligations and spending some quality time with my wife and daughter. That’s why I decided to get rid of some of the backlog items for the next version of Fluent Assertions. And I’m done, version 1.3.0 is a fact. N...
December Update of the Coding Guidelines for C# 3.0 and C# 4.0
I finally found some time to update the coding guidelines with some feedback I received since it’s original release in June this year. I’ve removed the following guidelines because I found that they were either very exotic or not general enough for most developers: Avoid side-effects when...
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