Monthly Archives: September 2008

That Sneaky .NET 3.5 External RuleSet Toolkit Sample

This is a quick note to those of you who are trying to access the External RuleSet Toolkit Sample in this download on MSDN. The .NET 3.5 External RuleSet Toolkit sample is a Workflow Rules Engine Sample that shows you how to externalize the Workflow’s Rule engine for your own evil, errr, I mean good….

Resizing a VHD and a Volume

I ran into a problem today…. I wanted to install SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 on my virtual pc instance today. I started the install and got an error stating I did not have enough space on my drive to do so. I was about a gig short. This is on a VPC too… NO…

New Digs

Jason Bock posted this awhile back – but I thought I’d post it for my subscribers. It’s been hectic with a new kiddo and all kinds of stuff going on so I’m just getting around to posting this now.   I have joined …   Background info: I recently moved to Minneapolis to explore other…

Unit Testing – It’s not what most of you think …

Unit Testing Purpose: To test an individual unit of code to ensure that it is working properly. This is where the most confusion lies, so I’m going to focus the majority of the beginning series on this area. Possibly to the effect of a few posts. Normally you’ll hear a developer say “I have unit…

Testing For Developers Series

Over the next few weeks I’m going to cover some topics will help alleviate the pain of understanding the difference between different tests in application development. The series will consist of the following articles: Unit Tests – Its not what most of you think. Integration Tests (in progress) Functional/Acceptance Tests (in progress) Regression Tests (in…