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Creating an Offline Web Platform Installer for Service Bus 1.0

One of my clients is evaluating a number of Service Bus tools.  One of those includes the Azure Service Bus which is now available for on-premise deployment. Service Bus 1.0 is available only through Web Platform Installer at this time and it’s not readily apparent how you might use WPI for a network isolated environment.  [...]

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My Favorite Visual Studio 2012 Extensions

Today is the official launch of Visual Studio 2012 so I thought I’d share some of the extensions I’ve been leaning on for the last few months. Visual Studio 2012 is a great step forward all by lonesome.  The in-the-box enhancements below have been great as our teams and I adopted Visual Studio 2012:  Visual [...]

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Lightning Talk: Experiences with Feature Focused Apps

Scrum.org Face-to-Face Gatherings The weekend prior to Agile 2012, Scrum.org hosted a face-to-face gathering of trainers.  These are a mandatory part of being a Scrum.org trainer and it’s a great time.  These are bright and passionate people that really want to make the world of software development better.  This year as part of the face-to-face [...]

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Headless Javascript Testing with Visual Studio 2012 & Chutzpah Test Adapter

[Update: The amazing @mmanela has fixed the bug in my original video.  Get the latest Chutzpah from VS Extensions.  I’ve re-recorded the video also.] More often than not, I’ll use the jasmine-node nodejs module for javascript testing.  It provides continuous testing/auto testing and it’s really fast.  To date, there really hasn’t been a good, if [...]

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Terrible Exception message building custom Nuget VSIX Extension

Today I was putting together a custom build of the Nuget 2.0 Visual Studio Extension (VSIX).  My client has an extranet where they publish their Nuget feed(s) and it’s behind an authenticated proxy server.  It used to be that the extension would use the VS credentials, but there’s a bug in 2.0. It’s been fixed [...]

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