Archive for category Programming Tools
Cannot convert source type “MyType” to target type “MyType”
Posted by andrewcushen in Programming Tools, Uncategorized, Unit Testing, Visual Studio on October 29, 2013
I recently installed ReSharper!. Today I was working on getting some old, previously ignored Unit Tests to pass for my current project. All of a sudden I noticed a nasty red squiggly underline on my actual = target.MethodUnderTest(input); call. Hovering over the offending code produced an error along these lines: Cannot convert source type Very.long.namespace.and.project.name.MyClass […]
CSS 3.0: fixing IE 8 and below with PIE
Posted by andrewcushen in CSS, jQuery UI, Programming Tools on January 25, 2011
I recently set out to spice up my website with some CSS 3 features; namely, border-radius and box-shadow. These can be very effective in causing parts of your page to stand out, especially when used together, though there are some caveats to doing so, which I will discuss later. The main point of this post, […]
Google’s App Inventor for Android – no programming required?
Posted by andrewcushen in Android phone programming, Programming Tools on December 3, 2010
Creating Android apps with App Inventor: no programming required? Created my first Android app last night using App Inventor–the claim is, “no programming required”, and it seems to live up to that—in a way. Rather than typing programming commands into an editor, per standard programming practice, you snap together pre-defined “blocks” of functionality by dragging and dropping […]
How-to: upgrading BugZilla on Windows Server 2003 and IIS
Posted by andrewcushen in BugZilla, Programming Tools on October 13, 2010
This is a follow-up post to Installing BugZilla on Windows Server 2003 and IIS, which I posted back in April of 2008. Upgrading BugZilla on Windows: gotchas Recently, having gotten sick of seeing the blurb about new versions of BugZilla every time I logged in, having gotten bored with the somewhat plain-vanilla look, and having […]
How to: Using Microsoft’s FxCop tool with VB.Net
Posted by andrewcushen in Programming Tools on February 1, 2010
Sadly, it just seems to be the case lately that those of us attempting to use VB.Net to write professional applications, in a professional manner, using up-to-date tools, and best practices, are swimming upstream against the current. Whether trying out the latest tool from Microsoft (I’m looking at you, StyleCop), the latest Test-Driven/agile development approach, […]
A Random sampling of tools I use with VS2005 when coding web pages
Posted by andrewcushen in Programming Tools on October 27, 2007
As I was posting on the ASP.NET forums today, I wound up posting a link to a tool I use frequently when debugging web sites in Firefox. So, thought I’d throw together a more-or-less random list of tools I’ve found indispensable when working with ASP.NET. Most of you probably know about these, but there’s […]
