Why using a build system like Ruby rake or some other next generation tool (psake looks promising) to build your .net application or library? A) Builds are not data. Xml is for data. It may be that the files or configurations are stored as xml, but does your build program need to be in xlm? B) Custom tasks are easy to write. Take a look at albacore for instance. C) It is easy to manage nontrivial tasks. D) It’s readable. Write your build in rake or something similar. Write it in msbuild. You will see that[...]

These prompts are quite :Hanselman: Introducing PowerShell prompt hereCommand prompt here round up For visual studio 2010 you might want to change the path to the correct Program Files folder (for instance if you’re running a 64 bit system).

I have had troubles writing unit tests for classes with a lot of dependencies. The reason for this is that the initialization of the state for my test code would look like: [Setup] public void Setup() {    stub1 = new Mock(); …   stub20 = new Mock();   mock = new Mock(); …// Setup mock and stub behavior   classToTest = new TypeOfClass( /a lot of code/); } This isn’t very maintainable. How do we make this easier to maintain? I’ve introduced a helper class that initializes most of the interfaces to stubs of [...]

I really recommend this. How do you read really complex css? How do you refactor complex css rules? The answers is: http://lesscss.org/ There is a port of this to .net. The site associated with it is down though. You might find the source on github however ;)

This program has helped me greatly. Not that I approve of IE6 or anything…http://www.my-debugbar.com/wiki/IETester/HomePage A former coworker told me about this tool:mankz: testing all versions of ie and almost enjoying it at the same time<div></div>