missing-export|Feb 28, 2013

Windows Store Apps, SVG, and HTML Interoperability

There are several reasons you may wish to show HTML content in your Windows Store app. You may have information that is updated frequently and makes the most sense to consume as HTML data. Your app may aggregate feeds that contain HTML content. In some cases you may be creating a native client that accesses…
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Blogs|Feb 18, 2013

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 the same .NET runtime which allows for easy instantiation of the tests as well as collecting test results. In a Javascript test, however, the test…
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Blogs|Feb 17, 2013

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 have. AngularJS provides a dependency injection framework that allows (and encourages) unit testing pieces of a web application. For this application, I am using Jasmine…
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Blogs|Feb 17, 2013

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 fairly straightforward: I want 8GB of RAM and a minimum of 256GB SSD, I have to have a touch display and the resolution needs to…
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Blogs|Feb 16, 2013

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 web site that this application existed, which is a huge mistake. Instead of spending several frustrating hours and writing a blog post about that frustration,…
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missing-export|Feb 14, 2013

24 Hours with the Surface Pro

Let’s just cut to the chase: I love it! I would have to call it the best general laptop I’ve had. With touch, the pen, and running Visual Studio in a two pound package, there’s a whole lot to like and its crapware free! Normally with a new Windows machine I have to spend two…
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Blogs|Feb 6, 2013

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 a Single Page Application (SPA), only elements within the page are updated giving the user a better, more responsive experience. A SPA implementation may still…
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wintellect-blogs|Feb 4, 2013

AngularJS/MVC Cookbook Basic Project

As part of the Angular-MVC-Cookbook project, I needed a starting point for a web application. In the Basic Project path, there is a pre-configured ASP.NET MVC application that includes a number of components. It’s a very basic project. I’ve removed the universal providers, additional javascript libraries (like jQuery UI, Knockout, etc.), and turned off forms…
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Blogs|Jan 28, 2013

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 .CSPROJ files I was so not looking forward to manually going through them all one at a time in Visual Studio to check. The .CSPROJ…
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Blogs|Jan 27, 2013

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 tired of waiting on PowerShell to slowly grind through the file system on its single thread. With lots of cores and an SSD, I shouldn’t…
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