WintellectPowerShell: Create NGEN PDBs for Easier Profiling on Win8/Server 2012
When sampling profiling on Windows 8 or Server 2012, nothing looks different in Visual Studio 2012, but the entire insides of the profiling collector is completely changed. With the profiler […]
AngularJS/MVC Cookbook Running Unit Tests
Running Javascript unit tests is a little bit different than testing other code. In an NUnit test, for example, the system under test and the engine running the test share […]
AngularJS/MVC Cookbook Unit Testing
I’ve updated the Simple Routing example in the AngularJS/MVC Cookbook with unit tests. Unit tests are meant to test a piece of an application independently from any dependencies it might […]
Review of the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 for Development
After several months of comparing various Windows 8 devices to replace my old 1.5” thick 6-lb. Dell laptop, I finally settled on the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. My requirements are […]
Surface Pro and Visual Studio Part Two: The Puppies and Unicorns Return!
Turns out there’s a TrackPad Settings application! Huge thanks to Sumit Maitra for mentioning its existence on my last blog post. There was nothing in the documentation or on Microsoft’s […]
Visual Studio and the Surface Pro: Great News and Not So Great News
Read the follow up! There’s a fix: Unicorns and Puppies Return It sure seems that a lot of you want to toss out your laptops given how many emails and […]
AngularJS/MVC Cookbook Simple Routing
In a classic ASP.NET MVC application, stepping between parts of the application usually requires a trip to the web server to refresh the entire contents of the page. However, in […]
Batch Updating/Changing Visual Studio Projects with PowerShell
Working on a giant codebase recently, I needed to check if all C# projects had Code Analysis turned on for all configurations. Given there were easily 30 to 40 different […]
Find File and Directory Names FAST
For some reason, I always seem to be looking for file and directory names. Since desktop search is a GUI and I’m a command line kind of guy, I got […]