OpenCover is developed by Shaun Wilde. He was a developer on (and is the only remaining maintainer of) PartCover. He's used what he learned working on PartCover to develop OpenCover, but OpenCover is a new implementation, not a port.
I tried OpenCover 1.0.514. Since I downloaded a couple …
PartCover has a GUI runner as well as a command-line mode. It integrates with Isolator, but doesn't offer any help for those wanting to profile IIS-hosted applications. There are some XSL files provided that allow one to generate HTML reports, but probably the better way is to use …
I tried JetBrains dotCover 1.1, integrated with ReSharper 5.1 running in VS2008.
A lifetime license, with 1 year of free upgrades is $199 $149 - a special introductory price.
This isn't usurious, but considering that ReSharper C# edition, a tool that changes the way I work every …
Recently at the Day Job, my boss's boss has been on a "code confidence" kick. We've always done various levels of automated and manual unit, integration, issue, system, and regression testing, but he's looking to improve the process. Part of this push involves getting better at measuring which tests exercise …
Last time I presented a truly horrible prime number generator I was using for Project Euler problems. Then I presented a revamped generator that used trial division. By adding various refinements to the generator, we saw the time required to generate primes less than 107 shrink from hours to …
From time to time, I find myself caught up in the heady world of Project Euler. It's almost like playing Professor Layton or some other puzzle-solving game - mathematical or programming brain teasers, served in bite-sized pieces.
If you look at the Project Euler problems for any length of time, you'll …
This week I started working with the Autofac Inversion of Control container at the Day Job. The first project I tried to introduce Autofac to needed a plugin system. I figured this was a perfect use of Autofac's implicit relationship handlers. Sure enough, a
container.Resolve<IEnumerable<IPlugin>>()did the …
This post is from a series on my experiences starting to grow an MVVM Framework in .NET 1.1.
* Part I—Event Handlers * Part II — Properties * Part III — Properties Redux * Part IV—Unit Tests * Part V—Reflections and RegretsFull source code can be found in my Google Code repository …
A meme, from No Magic Here.
Today's challenge, the BBC Top 100.
Instructions: Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt.
It's fashionable to complain about the IT department at the Day Job, but sometimes we get pretty good service. I had occasion to contact them today for two unrelated problems. The first, an issue with a Lotus Notes upgrade, was quickly resolved over the phone. The other problem involved hardware …