I was trying this morning to run NCover (for the first time). I downloaded a eval copy (sweet!) and then opened NCover Explorer only to find myself a little lost. So I thought I'd RTFM a bit first. That helped (a little), and the documentation online also helped some, but what I really needed to do was check my MSTest test coverage of my base framework. The documentation really only covered generic scenarios and a little bit of googling only left me wanting. All these little bits and pieces, however, ......
I finally got the nerve and installed Windows 2008 Server on my x64 laptop. It is rocking so far! It was a little confusing at first because there are lots of things turned off by default (it IS a server OS after all). But I found a post on Building a Windows 2008 x64 Laptop and it worked. First, it is NOTICEABLY snappier than Vista Business x64. Maybe because there is nothing set up by default. I almost cried when my Windows Live Writer told me it didn't support Windows Server OS and I thought I ......
I know you've probably heard it before: "There is no silver bullet." Basically, this means that there is no right answer for a particular problem in every situation. There is only the best solution that you know for each individial scenario. For instance, if you have to load a dependency for an object, you could use dependency injection or a provider model; but if you have to load an object's dependencies and that dependency's dependencies (the leg bone depends on the ankle bone and the ankle bone ......