Windows 7 Troubleshooter

This utility is intended to assist in fixing problems with a Windows 7 installation. It simply a link to a website, which should work most of the time. The big flaw is when the problem is in the network stack. This means you can’t go online so get left with wonderful suggestions such as “ask [...]

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More About NuGet

I have been having trouble installing Nuget on my new Windows 7 box. The first version that I got using the ASP.Net MVC installer was version 1.4 The upgrade tool did continually failed with an error about mismatched checksums. You need to run visual studio as Administrator to be allowed to uninstall NuGet. Having uninstalled [...]

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Windows 7 Installation

Recently I purchased a new laptop with Windows 7 Premium and a Windows 7 Pro upgrade DVD. It was only during this process that I discovered that you can’t upgrade. The process insists on replacing the entire operating system. At the end of this I was left with a PC with a VGA display and [...]

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Code Training Course

This is a simple tutorial for everyone. http://www.codecademy.com

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Useful css library

http://lesscss.org/

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T4 Template Tutorial

http://dnrtv.com/dnrtvplayer/player.aspx?ShowNum=0183 Tangible T4 editor

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A definition of the Gerkin requirements language

https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber/wiki/Gherkin 1: Feature: Some terse yet descriptive text of what is desired 2: In order to realize a named business value 3: As an explicit system actor 4: I want to gain some beneficial outcome which furthers the goal 5: 6: Scenario: Some determinable business situation 7: Given some precondition 8: And some other precondition [...]

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A comparison of NHibernate and Code First EF 4.1

http://charliedigital.com/2011/06/22/fluentnhibernate-vs-code-first-in-ef-4-1/

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A discusion on the use of mocks

http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html

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Useful Database Migrations Project

http://nmigrations.codeplex.com/ This allows a database to be constructed as a series of migrations which allows parallel development of test and production databases.

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