Tag Archives: .NET

Windows 8 developer preview

Posted on September 21, 2011 by erictummers

Windows 8 is released as a preview version for developers. The post on Scott Hanselman‘s blog inspired me to download and install it. I started by creating the USB stick version of the image but ran into some trouble. After … Continue reading →

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Custom AutomationPeer classes

Posted on September 6, 2011 by erictummers

When you use custom controls in your silverlight application, you should implement custom AutomationPeer classes. These AutomationPeer classes will be used in your unittests. Below some different flavours I use in my project. Inherited, when you inherit from a control … Continue reading →

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Silverlight unittest / automation

Posted on September 5, 2011 by erictummers

Reading up on silverlight unittesting from Justin Angel’s post. I ran into some startup problems like not iheriting from SilverlightTest in my test class (took me two hours ;)) and adding the right assemblies to our project. But the biggest … Continue reading →

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Use your own performance counters

Posted on August 25, 2011 by erictummers

Create and use your own performance counters to see how you program is doing in performancetests, stresstests, production, … First register the performance counters. This is done with a PerformanceCounterCategory that contains the CounterCreationData objects for the performance counters. Be … Continue reading →

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Expose WSDL

Posted on August 18, 2011 by erictummers

Working with my java colleagues I came to love SOAPUI for testing services. Now Microsoft seems to have catched up with the WCF Test Client. A blog post of dotNET colleague Rick van den Bosch made me search for it … Continue reading →

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