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Review – The Art of Unit testing by Roy Osherove

Posted on September 14, 2009 by John Mc

I was lucky enough to get hold of a review copy of The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove from Manning. I thought this book was excellent, but it came to me 6 years too late! If you’re just … Continue reading →

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WF 4.0 – Part 2. The Flowchart Workflow & Designer

Posted on September 7, 2009 by John Mc

UPDATE – Now Beta 1 Friendly! The following is based on Beta 1 of WF 4.0 and as such might change or be missing in futures releases. In Part 1 of this series of articles on WF 4.0 we started … Continue reading →

Posted in .Net, .Net 4.0, Visual Studio 2010, VS, VS2010, WF, WF 4.0, Workflow | 1 Comment

WF 4.0 – Part 1. The Sequential Designer

Posted on August 20, 2009 by John Mc

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Slides for the Intro to WF 4.0 talk

Posted on August 13, 2009 by John Mc

I’ve uploaded the slides for my Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 to my SkyDrive, you can get at them via this link. http://cid-b80e09d7827ce7cc.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/Intro%20to%20WF%204.0 Now includes code for the 5 basic demos. Enjoy the coding goodness!

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Upcoming events at NxtGenUG Southampton

Posted on August 11, 2009 by John Mc

Over the next couple of months we will be continuing our Web technologies theme by having Ben Hall down to talk about Testing ASP.Net applications on the 20th August. We’ve also managed to grab some uber swag from TypeMock and … Continue reading →

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Twitter on Windows Mobile 6

Posted on August 5, 2009 by John Mc

Over the last month or two I’ve been looking for a Twitter client for my HTC Touch Pro, as I wasn’t too keen on the mobile web version. I asked for recommendations on Twitter and the majority of people recommended … Continue reading →

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PRISM Assault Course and Julys event at Southampton NxtGen

Posted on July 3, 2009 by John Mc

Yesterday I passed the WPF MCTS, YAY! One of the reaons I wanted to get this done is to help me with the PRISM Assault Course I’m currently putting together with Peter Cook (who’s blog can be seen here). If … Continue reading →

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Slides for my PRISM-tation

Posted on June 10, 2009 by John Mc

Here are the slides for my Introduction to PRISM session that I given at Birmingham and Southampton. http://cid-b80e09d7827ce7cc.skydrive.live.com/embedrowdetail.aspx/PRISM The code examples are to follow. Thanks to everyone who attended! All comments welcome UPDATE – The code is now up as … Continue reading →

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WF 4 talk at the GL.NET User Group

Posted on May 28, 2009 by John Mc

I’ll be doing a Windows Workflow Foundation 4 talk at the GL.NET User Group on the 12th August 2009. The talk will be covering the Beta 1 release of VS2010 and Windows Workflow Foundation, unless Microsoft releases another Beta/Release Candidate … Continue reading →

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Typemock Giveaway!

Posted on May 20, 2009 by John Mc

In my current contract they use TypeMock and I must admit that before I’d started here I used the free mocking frameworks like Moq and RhinoMocks instead. Having three coding API styles is really nice so you can choose the … Continue reading →

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