Valuable Tools you need in your Tool box

I found some tools which you just need to take a look at. XAML Power Toys 4.0 The first one is XAML Power Toys 4.0, this is a Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Add-Id that empowers WPF & Silverlight developers while working in the XAML editor. XAML Power Toys generates .NET 3.5 SP1 WPF compliant XAM... [More]

Automated White Box Testing for .NET (Pex)

Microsoft research is working on another interesting project which might help us in the future with testing and I am sure you agree that we developers need all the help we can get when it comes to testing. Although the Pex (Program Exploration) project has been in existence for some time now, ... [More]

Code Contracts

The .NET Framework 4.0 is introducing a new feature to help us write more stable and trustworthy code. This feature is called "Code Contracts", and it provides a language-agnostic way to express coding assumptions. The contracts are used to improve testing via runtime checking, enable stat... [More]

Assembly Redirection as an alternative to Dependency Injection

Everybody seems to be using some form of Dependency Injection nowadays. Most of common reasons have been in regards to testability, modularizing and reach a greater sense of "loose coupling". In most cases Dependency Injection introduces another level of complexity as the available frame... [More]

Know your tools when diagnosing a problem

I spend the last four days on solving a problem I had with a WCF service. The message I got was really clear; the client authenticates anonymously while the server expected Windows authentication. [MessageSecurityException: The HTTP request is unauthorized with client authentication scheme 'Ano... [More]