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Central Ohio Day of .NET 2008 Wrap-up

This was just last weekend right? I’m pretty backlogged on my blogging and I’m just now getting around to posting my wrap-up for a event I helped put together! That’s just sad. The day started at 4:45 AM. I picked up Ben on the way and we made it to the Roberts Centre around 7:00 AM (we had a stop in Mason to eat some Panera for breakfast). I had expected about five volunteers to be coming in early to help out and was pleasantly surprised by about ten guys that showed up to help!

Have you seen PowerCommands for VS 2008?

PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008 is a set of extensions for Visual Studio written by Microsoft. You can see a full list at the link above. What you won’t find at the link above (unless I just missed it) is a link to actually download the extension. You can find that at this link over on MSDN Code Gallery. If you have the Visual Studio SDK installed you can even pull down the code and take a peak.

.NN #17: MSTEST ExpectedException Attribute

This post has been sitting in my draft folder for a while. At my client we use the Visual Studio Team Suite set of products, which means we also use MSTest for unit testing. I’m not going to get into MSTest vs. XUnit vs. NUnit vs. MbUnit, but I do have a comment about the implementation of the ExpectedException attribute from MSTest. Let’s say that I have some code that can throw a series of the same exception.