IHateSpaghetti {code}

The guys in NetFxFactory wrote a great walkthrough on how you can create multiple views to a single DSL model.

Very useful (and cool)!

To all the customs trying our CTP - the timebomp is activated and you probably getting the following message: "The evaluation period for Visual Studio Trial Edition has ended".

There is a work around for the VPC version in Jeff's blog and you can find similar solution for HyperV in Cameron's blog.

WPF introduced it's own System.Windows.Threading namespace and if you browse arround you will find: System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.

However don't be tempted to use for testing you UI because all the following examples below will fail and you will never know about it because the tests will be green !

   1: private delegate void STADelegate();

   2:  

   3:   [Owner("Eyal Lantzman")]

   4:   [TestMethod]

   5:   public void TestWPF1()

   6:   {

   7:             STADelegate d = new STADelegate( () =>

   8:             {

   9:     Assert.Fail();

  10:    });

  11:  

  12:    System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(d, 

  13:     System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Normal);

  14:   }

  15:   [Owner("Eyal Lantzman")]

  16:   [TestMethod]

  17:   public void TestWPF2()

  18:   {

  19:    STADelegate d = new STADelegate(() =>

  20:    {

  21:     Assert.Fail();

  22:    });

  23:  

  24:    System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(d,

  25:     System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Send);

  26:   }

  27:  

  28:   [Owner("Eyal Lantzman")]

  29:   [TestMethod]

  30:   public void TestWPF1_()

  31:   {

  32:    STADelegate d = new STADelegate(() =>

  33:    {

  34:     System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);

  35:     Assert.Fail();

  36:    });

  37:  

  38:    System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(d,

  39:     System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Normal);

  40:   }

  41:  

  42:   [Owner("Eyal Lantzman")]

  43:   [TestMethod]

  44:   public void TestWPF2_()

  45:   {

  46:    STADelegate d = new STADelegate(() =>

  47:    {

  48:     System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);

  49:     Assert.Fail();

  50:    });

  51:  

  52:    System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(d,

  53:     System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Send);

  54:   }

  55:  

  56:   [Owner("Eyal Lantzman")]

  57:   [TestMethod]

  58:   public void TestWPF1__()

  59:   {

  60:    STADelegate d = new STADelegate(() =>

  61:    {

  62:     System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);

  63:     Assert.Fail();

  64:    });

  65:  

  66:    System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(d,

  67:     System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Normal).Wait();

  68:   }

  69:  

  70:   [Owner("Eyal Lantzman")]

  71:   [TestMethod]

  72:   public void TestWPF2__()

  73:   {

  74:    STADelegate d = new STADelegate(() =>

  75:    {

  76:     System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(10000);

  77:     Assert.Fail();

  78:    });

  79:  

  80:    System.Windows.Threading.Dispatcher.CurrentDispatcher.BeginInvoke(d,

  81:     System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherPriority.Send).Wait();

  82:   }

  83:  

Instead what you can do is create an instance of a Control and use it's Invoke method to invoke you test code on the UI thread.

For more info just leave a comment :)

Just had to post this although it's not really a tech :)

Have fun - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7809160.stm

If your playing with Azure you will probably wondering "how can I see whats currently in the storage?" When at this point Azure storage viewer comes to the rescue...

Check out this post for more info.

Pablo Galiano released a cool tool for dev's - called StickyNotes.

This is a tool for VS2008 that allows to attach sticky notes to your code - no more //TODO: that never done :-)

Check out the screenshots and for less then $10 this cool thing can be yours !

Here a short description that I've copied in:

There are two types of comments:

• Permanent comments
  • Used for reference and code maintenance
  • Usually describe an algorithm or why we just did something in a particular manner
• Temporary comments
  • Used for personal purposes like reminders. Ex: //I need to verify this…
  • Used to reflect something we need to do or complete. Ex: //TODO:
  • Used for code review. Ex: // Please validate against null
  • Written in the middle of the development and deleted before shipping the product

Permanent comments are part of the source code, committed to the source control system and visible by the entire team.

Temporary comments should not be part of the source code, should not always be committed to the source control system and sometimes should not be visible by the entire team.

StickyNotes© focuses on temporary comments (called notes) and enhances the IDE to support:

• A way to add notes to any document (not only code) that are stored separately from the source. Ex: vb files, cs files, xml files, html files, etc
• A way to add personal notes that are only visible to the owner.
• A way to add team notes that are committed to the source control system and visible to the entire team
• A way to add notes and associate them with a particular/s line number/s
• A way to view all notes inside a solution
• A way to find notes inside a solution

Been a bit tide up the last couple of weeks but never the less I would like to start the new year with a new post - Blog Carnival #12

DSL Tools & Team Architect & T4

• Stuart Kent posted about our move back to Team Architect and what are the goals for the future
• VSTA, the enterprise architect and the application lifecycle by Clemens Reijnen
• The VSTA Layer Diagram and the P^P App Arch Guide 2.0 by Clemens Reijnen
• Getting App Arch Guid Knowledge in VSTS2010 –Create Diagrams from Code  by Clemens Reijnen
• DSL 2010 Feature Dives: T4 Preprocessing - Part One - Rationale by Gareth Jones
• DSL 2010 Feature Dives: T4 Preprocessing - Part Two - Basic Design  by Gareth Jones

UML & DSL

• Call to action from Steve Cook regarding the future of UML
• Martin Fowler on business readable DSL's - totally agree with him on this one!
• Martin Fowler on DSL Exceptionalism - I have to agree with Oren Eini on this one - a better example is the DSL Tools and Team Architect - DSL Tools is a DSL by itself and TA is a layer on top of it!

.NET 4.0

• Announcing 10-4! Weekly video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0

F#

• Don Syme announced that  F# to ship as part of Visual Studio 2010

Agile

• How my team does agile by Tom Hollander - excellent post!

Architecture

• Carnival of Enterprise Architecture #13

ASP.NET / ASP.NET MVC / ASP.NET Dynamics/ jQuerry

• jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 by ScottGu
• Tons of ASP.* December links by ScottGu
• ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery and Upcoming View Improvements with the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate by ScottGu