July 2006 - Posts

Turn off your car

Some interesting facts about idling and turning off your car. 10 seconds of idling uses as much gas as restarting your car. As a rule of thumb, if your car will be stationary for 10 seconds or more, turn it off to save gas and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read More...

Unit Testing Custom MSBuild Tasks

If you're developing custom MSBuild Tasks, and you're interested in testing them (and you should) using NUnit or VSTS there are a few considerations. The first is the strategy you want to adopt for testing the custom task. In the spirit of “Unit” testing, Read More...

VSTS Unit Tests with "extra" files

Sometimes you need to have an external file when you're creating unit tests. Perhaps you are reading a known state into an object, or reading in some XML to insert test data into a database. If you are reading this blog, you probably already tried adding Read More...