Chris Skardon

So I was limited to a specific version of NUnit for various reasons, and needed to start being able to run ‘core’ tests, so I migrated to XUnit. Generally…

I recently wrote an article with Michael Hunger (of Neo4j) about getting your .NET on with Neo4j - http://thenewstack.io/graph-database-neo4j-net-client/…

So, you want a demo graph, and you fire up Neo4j, go to the admin (http://localhost:7474/) and then run :play movies

Big milestone this one, Neo4jClient now supports Transactions, Authentication and some other little changes. Transaction info is all here:…

So – you install VS 2015, pin the icon to the start bar and ‘whaaaaaa???’ you discover it’s exactly the same Icon as for VS 2013, which is not handy.

In fairness, it was never \away\, but after a brief hiatus - it is being developed again. So changes – it’s moved -…

TIP: Using VS2015? I've got you covered! So, if you download the extension from Visual Studio Gallery (here) you’ll find it won’t install into VS 2013,…

There’s an excellent post by Sergey Tihon about using Neo4j with F#, written back in March, before Neo4j began the progression into Cypher 2.0. (Gist for…

So, I got a comment yesterday on my post about Extending Blend 4 and Blend for Visual Studio 2012 asking if I knew how to get it working for Blend for…

So Azure SDK 2.2 came out recently, which means I can open my azure projects in VS 2013 (yay), so I decided to do an upgrade of my MVC4 project to MVC5, I…

So, let’s get this straight off the bat – Craig Brett has written about using the PathResults from (a.NET REST client to Neo4J), but times have moved on,…

So, as part of my on-going project I’ve recently made the decision to shift all my images (uploaded by ME and my USERS) to Azure Blob Storage, instead of…

Just getting this off the bat, I presume this will also work for Blend 5, but I can’t confirm it… Anyhews, I imagine you’re here because you want to know…

Often overlooked, and (some may say) unloved, is the params.aspx) keyword, but it’s an awesome keyword, and one you should definitely check out.

Silverlight testing is great, we all know that (don’t we??), we’re expected to do it as part of the development process, but once we’ve got an awesome…

Right, Just a quicky this one - I didn't see anything online about this when I was searching for the solution but - basically - I fired up Media Center…

If you’ve read parts 1, 2 and indeed 3 you’ll know we’ve covered the CRD of CRUD, today we will cover the ‘U’ – updates! Updates are more complex than the…

Recently the Exchange server at work has been upgraded to an Exchange 2007 SP1 server. With this has come the chance to finally get rid of the MAPI CDO…

I've been playing with WPF a little bit, and quite frankly got a bit stuck, (Meh! Who'd have thought). The problem is as follows: I create a UserControl -…

So far, I have only one style which I'm currently using on all my buttons, and to be honest, I'm still working on it, but it's been in a pretty stable…