The agenda for our 8th annual Black Marble Architecture Forum is firming up. Just confirmed is our keynote from Martin Woodward the Executive Director of the .NET Foundation, discussing open source adoption within Microsoft

There are still spaces for this free event, so why not register?

The event is on the 15th of …

This article was first published on the Microsoft’s UK Developers site as Running nUnit and Jasmine.JS unit tests in TFS/VSO vNext build

With the advent of vNext build in TFS 2015 and Visual Studio Online running unit tests that are not MSTest based within your build process is far more straightforward than it used to …

Pleased to say my session on SonarQube has been accepted for DDDNorth. And it seems that registration has opened and closed today, there is a wait list up now

Good to see the DDD events still popular after 10 long years

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The title says it all, I have been using a Microsoft Band for a few months now and have found it a great tool for running and cycling as long as you are going out for less than about 5 hours. I tried to use for the first time Triathlon race at at the Leeds Triathlon over the weekend.

As it it not water proof it was not …

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Typemock Isolator provides a way to ‘mock the un-mockable’, such as sealed private classes in .NET, so can be a invaluable tool in unit testing. To allow this mocking Isolator interception has to be started before any unit tests are run and stopped …

Voting for DDD North Sessions is now open - http://bit.ly/DDDNorth15Sessions

Vote on what you would like to see at this community conference

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I have been trying to parameterise the SQL DB connection string used by nLog when it is defined in a web.config file of a web site being deployed via Release Management and  WebDeploy i.e. I wanted to select and edit the bit highlighted of my web.config file

1<configuration>  
2    <nlog …

I like web deploy as a means to package up websites for deployment. I like the way I only need to add

1/p:DeployOnBuild=True;PublishProfile=Release

as an MSBuild argument to get the package produced as part of an automated build. This opening up loads of deployment options

I recently hit an issue packaging up a …