A quick Visual Studio tip for the day. As a program evolves the number of projects in a Visual Studio Solution increases overtime. And more often than not the solution has more than one startup projects. What amazes me is that Visual Studio with the default keybindings does not have a shortcut for “Set as StartUp Project”.
Knowing Visual Studio is as extensible at it is, a custom short cut for Set As StartUp project can be achieved in less than 2 minutes. And here’s how. Continue reading →
If you are a neo .NET programmer, one of the tools in your arsenal would have been the .NET Reflector. A very powerful .NET decompiler that has been answering a lot of our questions about what exactly happens behind the curtain.
It so happens that Red Gate the company that took over the development of the tool from Lutz Roeder has announced that that tool will no longer be free. And Yes, No longer ”Free” as in Free Beer. It never was “Free” as in Free Speech! The true rationale behind this move might be something we would never know..
And if you had the older free version of Red Gate Reflector- it would run for until June 2011.
Here are the possible alternatives
Pretty much all my agile-aware developer life I have been using Rhino.Mocks to mock interfaces. I had never landed myself in a position where I had to mock a concrete class. Being a Design Purist (well , at least when I review code), I never liked the idea behind mocking a concrete class. The idea or the application of such a mock object is rare. But I wanted to experiment to find out whether such a thing is possible. This is the experiment !
