WiX Toolset is a technology to create Windows installers for your software. It is open source and free for use, but as many of free things is not super user friendly. The creation of the installer is XML based. In this post I will try to present a kind of boilerplate template which you can use to quickly create most of the need installer.
By Mirek on (tags: Installer, WiX, categories: tools)If you are looking for a good starting point to learn SQL Server reporting services I have two links for you.
By Mirek on (tags: SSRS, categories: tools)Entity Framework migrations is indeed a great feature. It makes you don’t need to worry about the database schema updates almost at all. There are however few things you must know to properly understand and use EF migrations. This post describes few of those things.
By Mirek on (tags: Entity Framework, migrations, categories: architecture, tools, code)Short story on a case which tfs does not handle well
By eidias on (tags: tfs, categories: tools)This is a tool I was looking for for a very long time. The Effort is a library that allows you to mock your database with basically no effort.
By Mirek on (tags: Effort, Entity Framework, testing, categories: tools)So I found this. Please don’t do that. Do something better, it’s easy and less complicated. I’ll show you how.
By eidias on (tags: ASP.NET, dependency injection, categories: tools, web)There are plenty of ways to test web apps, but most of them require a cumbersome setup and a lot of tools installed and I’m just too lazy to do that. But I just found something that may work in my favour.
By eidias on (tags: fluent, testing, categories: tools, web)There are times when you need to have a small, easy to set up http server. Most of the time, you’ll think – node and yes, if you have it – a great choice. But there’s another option…
By eidias on (tags: python, categories: tools)new snippet for python 3
By eidias on (tags: python, categories: tools)Few months ago I wrote here about the workaround for bringing back “Create unit test” option in Visual Studio 2012. Finally guys from Microsoft added this option to the Visual studio 2012 and 2013.
By Mirek on (tags: Unit test, categories: tools)