Not sure that this post really needs anything more than the title. If you are upgrading a Silverlight project from VS2008 or VS2010 be aware that VS2012 only supports versions 4 & 5 of Silverlight. If you need to update the solution/projects to use them in VS2012 I’d recommend upgrading to at least Silverlight 4…
We’ve recently upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 from VS2008 and switched over to using NuGet rather than direct project references for our third party tools. Everything worked as planned until we checked the solution into source control and the personal build for TeamCity kicked off. Almost straight away the build fell over with the following…
I ran into an interesting problem today when upgrading a visual studio 2008 project to visual studio 2012, whilst trying to leave the targeted framework to .NET 3.5. Each time I tried to open the solution all my test projects automatically upgraded to .NET 4.0 regardless of what I did. It was impossible to downgrade…
I’m now in my second role in which I’ve had the chance to introduce agile working practices to the team. In both roles, the projects and applications developed under scrum have been successfully shipped and accepted by the business. The success of the deliveries has been measured by: Functionality: The early visibility the business gained…
What do task hours add to the overall process in scrum? This was a question that has arisen from all team members in both instances that I’ve helped teams switch over to scrum. The benefits of artefacts like the comparative story point estimation, the 2-week sprints, stand-ups and the end of sprint demo have been…
It’s been over 2 years in it’s current form and I really must get around to updating my website. As you can see, I went for a really retro “early days of the web” approach; possibly even with the caveat that it’s best viewed in a text only browser. So moving on, time for an…
Today Jetbrains announced on their blog that they’ve released a resharper nuget package that will obtain project references via nuget, rather than making direct references to the locally installed code. As we are currently in the early stages of transitioning from VS2008 to VS2012 we aren’t ready to start using NuGet(*) but I think I’ll…
Over the past couple of years I keep on coming back to Project Euler, it’s nice when you just want a quick challenge, or to try your maths skills. It’s highlighted how rusty some of my concepts were, and I’ve learnt a whole load of new ones along the way. I really like the way…
There are many articles on the web about how to do good code reviews, with mostly all of them either discussing their merits or how to obtain maximum value from them. In a new role, I’ve recently helped introduce and roll out the agile process and to start with as part of each story we…
Leading on from the previous blog post on reducing code noise when checking for null parameters, these help functions can be utilised to further reduce code noise that generally occurs in class constructors. Most constructors are purely made up of the following duplicated checking/assignment code. [code language=”csharp”] public class MyClass { private readonly object var1;…