Tim Hoolihan

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  • Rake Breathing New Life to Building Old Projects

    I’ve seen lots of examples of rake (the ruby make replacement) being used as a build tool in non-ruby projects. Many of these are still modern platforms, like .Net. For example, StructureMap builds with rake. But I’ve found that even on older platforms, the power of having a full programming language in your build tool […]

  • NHibernate and Auto Properties

    I’ve been working through the NHibernate with ASP.NET ProblemDesignSolution (Wrox Blox), with some small changes. I’m writing my sample in C# using the .Net framework 3.5. I prefer to use auto-properties. It’s common that fields have private setters and only nhibernate can map using the backing field (set via reflection). public String City { get; […]

  • Equals, ==, and MSTest

    public class SampleClass { public int X { get; set; } public override bool Equals(object obj) { if (obj == null) return false; if (obj.GetType() != typeof(SampleClass)) return false; var s = obj as SampleClass; return this.X == s.X; } } Tests: [TestMethod()] public void EqualsTest() { var sc = new SampleClass { X = […]

  • External Tools in Visual Studio

    If you use subversion or git, bouncing over to source control is something you have to do a lot from Visual Studio. Here’s how to make it easier. In Visual Studio, go to Tools -> External Tools and setup Explorer if you use TortoiseSVN, or GitBash if you use that.

  • Handling Persistance in Asp.Net with Dynamic Controls

    I worked on a project a couple of years ago using dynamic controls in an Asp.Net WebForms environment. Managing dynamic controls can be a real hassle. So when I read Dave Reed’s great article about Viewstate, I wondered if I could do it better now. I worked up a simple example using no Viewstate where […]