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In October 2009 I created 2 codeplex projects which I would to tell you about: SQL Server Reporting Services MSBuild Tasks (ssrsmsbuildtasks) A few years ago I created some tasks for MSBuild to help deploy reports for my project, details can be found here,  since then my tasks have been re-used in a few other projects within my ...

For the last 6 months I’ve been leading a small team to deliver a “best of breed” ecommerce retail site, based on ASP.NET MVC, Sharp Architecture, NHibernate, Fluent NHibernate, Spark View Engine, N2CMS, Castle Windsor, xVal Framework, AutoMapper, PostSharp, Gallio / MBUnit / DevelopWithPassion.bdd, Solr and SolrNet. We delivered it in 10 x 2 week ...

On my current project I wanted to do a little pit stop after our 1st sprint to ensure that the solution was running as optimally as possible. We’ve fleshed out the solution structure and have pulled together all the core pieces of technology – so within Visual Studio, the solution looks like: Solution ‘MyApp’ +---Data |   ...

As I mentioned in my last post I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints, one of the problems I encountered was trying to come up with a generic, reusable way of working with T4 Templates (T4 is the used by Blueprints for all code generation as T4  is now integrated into Visual Studio 2008) to generate the code fragments. I created ...

I've been working with Microsoft Blueprints for the last couple of weeks, to see if it's a suitable deployment vector for some of our reusable IP and Engineering Practices. Blueprints is part of the Software Factories vision, it evolves and includes the great work already done with the Guidance Automation Toolkit, the DSL Tools and Visual Studio ...

Update: StyleCop for ReSharper is now feature complete. While I was on holiday Microsoft released a new version of Microsoft Source Analysis for C#, in the new version - 4.3 - it has been re-branded to it's original internal Microsoft name - StyleCop. There was a bit of a backlash against the initial release of Source Analysis - a few members of ...