Going in production as often as you can

I really care the concept of “going in production”, because it is the moment when the software bring to life. Going in production can be sometimes a really difficult thing to do, and there are a lot of reasons behind it. First of all we have the syndrome of “It works on my machine”. The [...]

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I’ve a little library that build excel files in openXml format. It is based on LINQ to XML, and permits you to open an excel file with open xml sdk, then manipulate the content and showing it to the user. Today for a particular set of data I got hexadecimal value 0x0C, is an invalid [...]

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I began using Visual Studio Database Edition today, I did not used it before because I’m the only one in the team that have this edition, others developers used VS professional, but I’m the one who cares of database in this project, quite all modifications are done by myself, so I decided to create a [...]

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I’ve quite always used Nunit for unit testing, I had some little project with mbUnit and a try with xUnit, but I feel comfortable with Nunit so I never had the need to switch to other environment. Now I wanna take a shot to msTest, mainly because it is fully integrated with visual studio and [...]

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I hope I can help others because it took me about a couple of hour to find a solution to this problem. I have a mini DV camera SONY DCR CH51E and windows 7 rc 1. When I connect the camera to the pc the first time I see a baloon in the systray area [...]

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