ArgumentList is a command-line program argument parser that exposes named items (i.e. /name=value or -name:value) and unnamed items in an easy to use collection format. I invariably rely on this utility when witting command-line tools. It’s usage is strait-forward, simply construction one with the array of arguments: string[] rawArgs = new string[] { “-x=y”, “noname”, [...]
Mar 092009
Way back in 2003 Marc Clifton wrote a series of articles on unit testing, it’s pros and cons and general process. It is worth a read if your new to the whole thing and just getting started. If you’ve been writting NUnits (or any other unit test) then you are probable already familiar with most [...]
Mar 062009
There can be no worse thing for a project than too many chiefs… to that end remember these words: “It is common sense to take a method and try it; if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something” – Franklin D. Roosevelt So cheer up, go to work [...]
Feb 242009
Well, I finally got some code up and published. Ran into an issue with NCoverExplorer and was forced to rewrite it’s reporting. It’s some horribly ugly code and the need to be quick outweighed the need to be elegant as it oft does in small tools like this one. Published at: http://code.google.com/p/ncover-report/ The project allows [...]
Nov 082008
Well I have uploaded the first of many useful things I hope. Over the past few days I’ve been working to improve our product’s logging. We use log4net but I have little experience with it as it is masked under our own logging api. Configuring log4net is not one of it’s strong points. I quickly [...]
Nov 082008
Well it’s been six months since I registered the domain and more than four months since I began leasing the server and I’m just now getting started. I have been busy this year with a new job, a new house, a new dog, and several new websites. It’s now time to start this thing up.