Tag: Development

Download Microsoft Expression Studio 3 Trial

Jul 23, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It’s released, but not yet available for MSDN subscribers. That said, you can download the Trial Edition and get your hands on it. My understanding is that you can product key activate it later, when …

Microsoft Development Visual Studio ALM

Developers Developers Developers Developers Book

Jul 10, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

There’s a new book out (download or Lulu) which blends content from Microsoft's {You Shape} It campaign. Developers Developers Developers Developers is a free download and released under a Creative …

Community Development

Mining Software Effort Data: Preliminary Analysis of Visual Studio Team System Data

May 19, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Ok, I’m on a Microsoft Research kick today. I admit it. Some of you know what I’m talking about – you find one cool project and that leads to another one, and another one and before you know it you’re …

TFS Development Visual Studio ALM

Realizing Quality Improvement Through TDD

May 19, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was talking TDD with Doug Seven at Tech-Ed last week. He gave a great presentation on Agile Development with Team System 2010. Afterward we were brainstorming on ways to get people to write unit …

Development Testing

Altova DiffDog now Supports Database Differencing

May 19, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I met up with the Altova folks last week at Tech-Ed and asked about any cool improvements or features in their 2009 version of DiffDog It turns out there are two new, albeit surprising, features in …

Conferences Development

Quote of the day

Jan 14, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

"Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning" -Anonymous

Development

My First VSTO Application - BeSure

Nov 29, 2008 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

If you exchange email with me on a regular basis, you know that I am the king of email faux pas. I regularly do things like this: Use CNTRL+Enter to send an email sooner than I really want to send it. …

Development Testing

Yet Another Use of a Unit Test Framework

Nov 26, 2008 • 2 min read • David Starr

Believe me, I understand TDD. I grok it. It is in my soul. I also happen to believe (and know from experience) that unit test frameworks are valuable far beyond their use in TDD. Some of the best uses …

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How fast is the VelociRaptor drive?

Nov 21, 2008 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

So I splurged recently and picked up one of the new Western Digital 300GB SATA VelociRaptor drives. I also happened to be in Las Vegas, and there was a Fry’s nearby. I think that was the cause, …

Misc Development