Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

Visual Studio 2012 upgrade from 2010

Posted on January 3, 2013 by erictummers

First some tips from Scott Hanselman to get the look-and-feel back. Next to replace the pre- and postbuild macro with an add-in. The template takes care of the plumbing and running/debugging will make it available for use. Make sure to … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged Add-in, BuildEvents, Color Theme Editor, Macro, Postbuild, Prebuild, Round tripping, SolutionEvents, upgrade, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012 | Leave a comment

15 minute ssd upgrade

Posted on December 17, 2012 by erictummers

Ever since the native boot blog post from Scott Hanselman I’ve been running my Windows from a VHD. When my new machine arrived I upgraded to VHDX as that would support TRIM. I was preparing my machine for a SSD … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2010 profiler on Windows 8 issue

Posted on December 15, 2012 by erictummers

I’ve been using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on my Windows 8 machine for a while now. Never had an issue until today when I tried to start the profiler. Turns out the driver it uses is not compatible with Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Tooling | Tagged Compatibility, Profiler, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, windows 8 | Leave a comment

AmbiguousMatchException on mock creation

Posted on December 12, 2012 by erictummers

See simple code below of ClassToTest with two public constructors with one parameter. My favorite mocking framework (Rhino Mocks) is unable to determine which constructor to use for mocking. The CreatePartialMock method throws an AmbiguousMatchException. The workaround for this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Test | Tagged .NET, csharp, Rhino mocks, unittest | Leave a comment

Mobile building blocks

Posted on November 16, 2012 by erictummers

By using partial classes I can create libraries for every mobile platform that share a common interface. The component- / classdiagram below is a concept of this principle. The light yellow blocks are generic code and the purple blocks are … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged building block, classdiagram, componentdiagram, cross platform, csharp, ios, mobile development, partial method, unittest | Leave a comment