Deploying Console Apps via MSBuild

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VS2010 and MSBuild don’t provide a good way to deploy windows apps using continuous integration (especially to different environments). Over the past couple days I’ve wasted a lot of time manually deploying my apps to test them on dev. Brian Gansemer has talked about creating hooks for deploying ClickOnce apps as part of the build…

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Load Testing in Visual Studio 2010

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Have you ever wondered if your custom data access code is any more efficient than simply loading a DataTable? Not that I’d recommend using DataTables except for certain situations, but Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate makes it easy to load test your data access classes to determine performance. In order to test this out I created…

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ASP.Net Page Properties

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​Below is an example of how I like to use properties to access HTML items from code-behind.  It allows you to have strongly-typed objects and a single point of access to HTML items.

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