by Adam Miller | Dec 14, 2011 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Development Tips & Tricks
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...
by Adam Miller | Sep 29, 2011 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Development Tips & Tricks, Software Engineering
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...
by Adam Miller | Jul 14, 2011 | Development Methodologies & Best Practices, Software Development Tips & Tricks
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.