August 2004 Entries

ReSharper review
I just spent some time evaluating JetBrains' ReSharper v1.0.2.... Unfortunately I have to say the product lasted less than a full day of development on my machine.... The product has many good features, and the refactoring I did with it was fast and powerful. I had a heavily used class that contained several methods that should have been properties. The class was also an implementation of an interface. A right-click menu option and a couple button clicks on dialog boxes and my methods were quickly...
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Posted On Thursday, August 19, 2004 11:03 AM | Feedback (0)

how to tell if your code is running under an NUnit test....
Sometimes you need to know if your code is running within a NUnit test or not. For example, you don't want to pop-up a MessageBox if you're running under test during an automated build process.... Some developers use a boolean that gets passed around, and some use specific application config properties, and some create odd workarounds to isolate pop-up boxes, and some simply don't unit-test their GUIs.... I prefer to use custom messagebox that first detects if the code is running under NUnit, and...
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Posted On Thursday, August 05, 2004 10:17 PM | Feedback (9)