One of the new productivity features that helps you manage large solutions is focusing on portion of the solution in Solution Explorer window. Visual Studio has made some good improvements in this area by providing two commands – 1. Scope to this and 2. New Solution Explorer window. Continue reading “VS 2012 Solution Explorer – Scope to this and New Explorer Window”
Microsoft Surface vs. iPad
On June 18th 2012 Microsoft launched is first ever full computing hardware Microsoft Surface. It was morning time in India when I started reading the liveblog updates of the event on the Verge site and by the time I started for office, the event was over and I had enough details to shout in the bus to my colleagues about this new WOW product. Few of them who were half asleep felt like “Ummm … OK! so Microsoft is launching an iPad competitor. Big deal. They can’t compete with Apple.” I use an iPad and I bought the iPad 2 about 1.5 years back after seeing the tablets running Windows 7. When I saw those tablets, the experience was so jerky compared to iPad, I thought I will never see a great tablet from Microsoft OEMs. I even though I had few objections to what is available on iPad, I went ahead and bought it.
Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) & tools for .Net
I had read about the behaviour driven development (BDD) quite some time back. However it was more in conceptual stage at that time. So I was looking forward to some new and actionable information to act on it.
For those who are new to BDD here are few links to get up to speed.
What caused me write this post was one of the recent tweets by the @ScottGu pointing to an article by Rajesh Pillai (BDD using SpecFlow on ASP.NET MVC Application) and also while searching for similar stuff, I found another article with same title but little more theorotical content by Steve Sanderson (Behavior Driven Development (BDD) with SpecFlow and ASP.NET MVC).
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