Andreas Plahn

Run, monitor, and manage builds for TFS/VSTS from Visual Studio

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In Visual Studio 2015:
You can run, monitor, and manage your builds from the Builds page

If you’re not already connected to the team project that you want to work in, then connect to the team project.
Choose Home icon Home, and then choose Builds Icon Builds (Keyboard: Ctrl + 0, B).
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Source: Run, monitor, and manage builds

Assembly Diff Tool for .NET – JustAssembly

Telerik introduced JustAssembly, a free utility tool that compares two .NET assemblies and shows the differences in each assembly code line by line.

http://www.telerik.com/justassembly

5 Security Concepts Every Developer Should Understand – Simple Programmer

simpleprogrammer.com/2017/04/19/5-security-concepts/

LiteDBViewer: a GUI for LiteDB

LiteDBViewer: LiteDB Viewer is a simple tool that let you open a LiteDB database file and shows its contents; think of it as a GUI for LiteDBShell

LiteDB is a small, fast and lightweight NoSQL embedded (filebased) database, great for prototyping for instance.

Source: falahati/LiteDBViewer: LiteDB Viewer is a simple tool that let you open a LiteDB database file and shows its contents; think of it as a GUI for LiteDBShell

Productivity Tips for Visual Studio 2017

I’ve written a few blog posts thus far regarding Visual Studio 2017, so I thought I would take some time to discuss the features that were introduced in this latest version that might help your productivity, or that you just may find useful.

You’ll notice that the title of this post mentions that they are “secret”. This is because all of these features are disabled by default, so you’ll need to enable them, either locally (per project) or globally, to take advantage.

Source: “Secret” Productivity Tips for Visual Studio 2017 – CodeProject

Coypu supports browser automation in .Net to help make tests readable, robust, fast to write and less tightly coupled to the UI

Based on Selenium WebDriver:
https://github.com/featurist/coypu/blob/master/README.md

A robust wrapper for browser automation tools on .Net, such as Selenium WebDriver that eases automating ajax-heavy websites and reduces coupling to the HTML, CSS & JS

A more intuitive DSL for interacting with the browser in the way a human being would, inspired by the ruby framework Capybara – http://github.com/jnicklas/capybara

C# .NET Convert object to dynamic

        public dynamic ToDynamic(object value)
        {
            IDictionary<string, object> expando = new ExpandoObject();

            foreach (PropertyDescriptor property in TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(value.GetType()))
                expando.Add(property.Name, property.GetValue(value));

            return expando as ExpandoObject;
        }

Best Online Resources to Learn Test Automation (Selenium) in 2017 – Simple Programmer

Source: Best Online Resources to Learn Test Automation in 2017 – Simple Programmer

Force xUnit.net to run tests serially

Force to run tests in test projects serially; (for integration or ui type of tests)
Add this to the xunit test project app.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<appSettings>
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<add key="xunit.methodDisplay" value="method" />
<add key="xunit.parallelizeAssembly" value="false" />
<add key="xunit.parallelizeTestCollections" value="false" />
<add key="xunit.maxParallelThreads" value="1" />
...

docs:
https://xunit.github.io/docs/configuring-with-xml.html (.NET)
https://xunit.github.io/docs/configuring-with-json.html (.NET core)

Run default Gulp tasks in Visual Studio 2015

How to run the default gulp tasks for a front end web project in Visual Studio 2015.

Open Task Runner Explorer window in Visual Studio.
Right-click Tasks > build (build should be the list of tasks needed) and Run. Css and js files will be created.