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• reMix Event in Minneapolis

  A Minneapolis .NET/Silverlight user group meetup recapping MIX09 highlights, Silverlight 3, Expression Blend 3, plus a private Star Trek screening.

  Donn Felker – May 1, 2009

• NCover Hangs on Configuring Profiler…

  NCover 1.5.8 hangs at Configuring Profiler on a large 53-project solution. The fix: switch to a licensed NCover 2 build for your CI server.

  Donn Felker – April 22, 2009

• Twin Cities Give Camp Postponed

  It has been moved to November 14th and 15th of 2009. Why? Get the inside scoop here.

  Donn Felker – April 21, 2009

• Finding App_Data Programmatically

  Server.MapPath breaks in unit tests. Here's the AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData trick to find your ASP.NET MVC App_Data path anywhere.

  Donn Felker – April 14, 2009

• IoC Auto Registration & Setter Injection

  How to inject a single config-driven property into one auto-registered controller in your IoC container without touching all the others.

  Donn Felker – April 13, 2009

• A Very Cool WCF Tool: WCFTestClient.exe

  WcfTestClient.exe, bundled with Visual Studio, lets you invoke and test any WCF service endpoint without writing a client or generating a proxy.

  Donn Felker – April 10, 2009

• Sending & Receiving Large Files

  Sending gigabytes of studio session files to collaborators without an FTP server: how I split, upload, and download large file batches.

  Donn Felker – April 9, 2009

• Featured in the Spaghetti Code Podcast

  Donn talks mocking, testing, and day-to-day development practices in an interview on the Spaghetti Code Podcast with Microsoft's Jeff Brand.

  Donn Felker – April 7, 2009

• TCCC6 Video Interview

  Twin Cities Code Camp organizer Jason Bock caught me on camera again for a video interview, plus a short clip from my session at the event.

  Donn Felker – April 7, 2009

• Twin Cities Code Camp 6 – Testing with Mocks – Code and Presentation

  Code and slides from my Testing with Mocks talk at Twin Cities Code Camp 6, including the TypeMock Isolator examples used in the demo.

  Donn Felker – April 4, 2009

• Presentation Settings for Visual Studio

  A downloadable Visual Studio settings file with 16pt fonts everywhere, so your audience can actually read your code during a talk.

  Donn Felker – April 3, 2009

• How to Use Rhinos AssertWasNotCalled

  How to use Rhino Mocks' AssertWasNotCalled to prove a service method never fires when validation fails, with a working ASP.NET MVC example.

  Donn Felker – March 30, 2009