Category: Development Methodologies & Best Practices
HTML5 Video: Lessons Learned
We recently completed a web project for a client where videos were an integral part of the site. When the client came to us, they had already vetted their design ideas and had an outside firm create a final site design. Nearly every page of the site was to have a video on it that…
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Standup? What’s a Standup?
People will sometimes ask us how we get value from our daily standups. This got us thinking about why we do standups in the first place, what we want to get out of the standups, and why we think our standups work. For those not familiar with standups, they are brief meetings (usually about 10…
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Deploying Console Apps via MSBuild
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
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
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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ClickOnce: Revisited
Recently we’ve received a couple comments on my blog post ClickOnce Publish and Deploy from Team Foundation Server 2010 so I thought we should do a follow-up post to share what we’ve learned. One of our readers, Anye, was having some trouble getting the build to copy the published ClickOnce application over into the ClickOnce…
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ClickOnce Publish and Deploy from Team Foundation Server 2010
Overview ClickOnce technology is a very powerful way to distribute your applications to end users. It is especially nice for easily distributing updates to your application. Even if you don’t plan to distribute your application using ClickOnce technology, it is still a great tool for deploying daily updates for QA during development. However, publishing and…
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