HowTo: TeamCity & CodeCoverage with dotCover

  During our BizzBingo project we use NUnit and since TeamCity 6.0 is Jetbrains dotCover also directly integrated. How dis would look like you are getting to know now.

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HowTo: line number in Visual Studio 2010

  Short Mini-Howto: Almost every texteditor shows the line number beneath the line. But in the default calibration Visual Studio 2010 won´t so. But of course there is an easy way to deactivate this feature…

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HowToCode: Development at the Speed and Scale of Google & Continuous Delivery/X

  I found two very interesting videos on InfoQ.com about software-developing processes. The first video is about how Google was developed and the second one (matching to the first one ) is about “Continuous Delivery“.

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HowTo: map your own domains on Windows Azure Applications (*.cloudapp.net)

  If you already successfully deployed a Windows Azure Application and turned it on “active” you will get an URL after the pattern “Name.clodapp.net” for less. But how is it possible to show “name.de or “www.name.de“ on my application? The (short) answer:

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HowTo: Sessionless Controller in MVC3 – what & and why?

  At the moment I play with MVC3 RC. A new feature which is the introduction of a SessionState Behavior to, for example, make a controller state-, and sessionless. Unfortunately there wasn´t a really advertising. How it works, what to keep in mind and why you should use it? Go on reading

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HowTo: apply MVC2 & Html.DropDownListFor

  First of all: Merry Christmas to all of you out there and to your family In an ASP.NET MVC framework you will find a lot of nice HTML Helper. Even one which will help you building a simple HTML <select>. But how does the DropDownListFor helper work?  

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HowTo: apply StyleCop Settings on several projects

  I´ve already blogged about how to use StyleCop in an MSBuild Script. Today I´m going to show you how to create a StyleCop Settings file and apply them in every build with visual studio. Here is an easy solution.  

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HowTo: MSBuild & StyleCop

  Code Quality is a big issue. StyleCop is a tool from Microsoft (an open Source Tool btw.) to analyse the Source Code. In contrast to FxCop or Code Analysis from VSTS it controls the code for observation the Codeing Conventions etc. Here a blogpost to show you the diference. Anyway it´s quite easy to …

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HowTo: object orientated programming / OOP in Javascript (create a simple class)

  Because of the increasing hype about AJAX and the “file-format” JSOPN, another subject in the field of web-developmen gets more and more interesting: Javascript-development. All in all, in my opinion a little change is happening to web-development – we try to realize many things on the client. I appreciate this change because, why should …

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HowTo: Web.config Transformations with MSBuild

  With Asp.NET 4.0 a new feature named “Web.config Transformations“ was released. During my latest MSBuild Posts I showed you how to for example build a solution with pure MSBuild. Usually the web.config isn´t triggered and the WebApp works in debug Mod (worst case!). Because of this we need to trigger it manual in MSBuild. …

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