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Silverlight and WPF Single-Sourcing – XAML namespaces
I have found that WPF and Silverlight XAML are sufficiently different to make single-sourcing difficult. At first I did not know if it was possible at all, but I knew one thing – the differences in...
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The Silverlight 3 SelectedIndex bug
There is a Silverlight bug which bothers a lot of users worldwide – if you bing the issue you will find quite a few hits. The Problem The problem is simple to state. Create a combo box and bind to the...
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Multiple Asserts in a Single Unit Test method
The title of this post is a provocation to many people who have read and love Roy Osherove’s brilliant book, The Art of Unit Testing. In this book Roy clearly states that one of the pillars of good...
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Continuous Delivery
How does the topic Continuous Delivery fit in a blog which is mainly on code architecture and code crafting? In this post I hope to convince you that it fits quite well. I am working on a team which...
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The ABC of Continuous Delivery
You probably know the triple L of real estate: location, location and location. In the same way some would argue that the three most important focus areas, the triple A of continuous delivery, are...
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Coding for Continuous Delivery – the SOLID Principles
I never thought that I would find myself blogging on the topic of SOLID Principles. Not that I think it is unimportant, because it certainly is an important topic, it is just that it is so easy to find...
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Continuous Delivery – a Safety Net will make you Lazy
I sincerely believe that some kind of safety net is needed when coding. In fact I believe that having a safety net is especially important when doing continuous delivery. Before I managed to blog on my...
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Setting the Windows Phone 7 SMTP Port
I am now the happy owner of a Windows Phone 7 device, Samsung’s Omnia 7. I am a happy user of Samsung’s hardware as well as Microsoft’s software, including the new Metro user interface, My Phone’s...
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Even More Asserts in a Single Unit Test Method
In my last post I stated that sometimes it is OK to have multiple asserts in a single unit test method and I devised a helper class MultiAssert for that. Please do not get me wrong – I am a great...
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Building a Safety Net for Continuous Delivery with Developer Tests
It is impossible to develop a software system with a certain level of complexity unless it is built on top of a smaller working system. I wanted to credit Bjarne Stroustup for expressing this point of...
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