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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.

Async unit test

With the .NET framework 4.5 making stuff asynchronous has become very easy with async-await. I’ve looked into unit testing this new way of programming and found that Microsoft thought about this too.
During my exercise I had to replace my trusted RhinoMocks by NSubstitute when the tests are run in parallel. Seems that RhinoMocks is not thread safe. More about that in the references. Continue reading

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Remote debugger extension

The Server Explorer in Visual Studio holds a hidden gem: the debugger extension for Azure. This integration is documented on MSDN but I just recently found it. Integration makes it easier to debug in azure. Just enable debugging and attach … Continue reading

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Week 8 roundup

Last week recap and links: Gitflow for visual studio, we’ve been using this feature with SourceTree. Now a plugin for visual studio. 10 Years of Doing BDD All Wrong. Video from CukeUp! 2014. Read here why to keep your code … Continue reading

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Know your user

When we create a (web) application the GUI must be responsive on every platform. All kinds of frameworks and scripts help us to achieve the best experience on every device. But what about operations? Do they get the best experience? … Continue reading

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Bind WPF control to Window property

I’ve decided to write this small post on how to bind a WPF control to a property of the Window code behind. Every time I forget one of the steps and end up searching for this: Create a dependency property, … Continue reading

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