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   Jun 30

Iisang Bangka Project

Another open-source project under OnePiece umbrella that focuses on Team Management! The “Iisang Bangka” is the title of another hit Filipino musician “The Dawn”. It mainly focuses on the proper management, coordination, unity, separation of concerns of a team. I prefer to use the HTML 5 here, a two-layer application(UI and Service) on single tier [...]

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   Jun 27

Tindahan Ni Aleng Nena Project

Yes this is an Open Source Project for simple E-Commerce that fully fits the Philippine Market. The main purpose of this project is to fully understand the lumps of emerging technologies of Microsoft like, ASP.NET MVC, EF Code Only, Modeling, T4 Templates, WCF 4, .NET Framework 4, SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2010, etc. That [...]

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   Jan 07

Dependency Injection to solved unit test problem

One of the common problems with unit testing is the dependency of the SUT (systems under test) with other items/modules. So the common approach is to mock/fake this dependency. There are several frameworks that do this mocking, TypeMock, Moq, Rhinomock as some popular ones. But sometime these dependencies can be done by simple method overload [...]

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   Dec 16

Creating MSDN like documentation for .Net Projects using SandCastle

The days of NDoc are over (in my opinion)! But in fairness to NDoc, this is really a great tool for generating documentation for .Net Projects ever since the SandCastle was not yet born. Today I’d downloaded this tool from Codeplex and start working on it. Good thing there is a GUI available so I [...]

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   Dec 14

GUI for Nant, the NantBuilder

Are you tired of creating Nant task using the plain old NotePad, or maybe you’re using the Visual Studio for editing the XML for NAnt, here comes the NantBuilder. NAntBuilder is a full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for NAnt, the popular process-automating tool. It is designed to be a powerful NAnt script creator, editor, and [...]

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   Dec 09

How to debug Fitnesse Codes in Visual Studio

Fitnesse is a great tool, a fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework and we used this on BlastSuites projects development. During test codes/scripts creation we may encounter runtime errors that are very hard to determine/check unless we use the Visual Studio debug. Below are the sample acceptance test pages using Fitnesse and C# [...]

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   Dec 09

Notepad++, NOT another notepad tool

Sometime your plain old notepad is so annoying that it just give you confusion when editing, especially when you are editing xml files (web.config, nant build files, xml configuration file, etc). The only biggest thumb up for me for notepad that’s why I continue using it is it loads fast. That was the time when [...]

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   Dec 03

Write regular CSS with your .NET apps, and then add a few variables, mixins and nested rules

What if you can make a dynamic CSS, include some operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide), create CSS variables, mix properties of the CSS class, and create a more compact nested CSS. That can be done by “.less” (pronounced dot-less), a .NET port of the funky ruby LESS library. We are trying/planning to implement this on [...]

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   Nov 24

ASP.NET: Error: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Keyset does not exist or Access is denied.

This article provides a possible solution to fix the following exception: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException – Keyset does not exist or Access is denied. I experienced this when I’m working with the Windows Identity Foundation.  I am doing a research for single sign-on, federated identification that will be implemented on BlastSuites project QuickSaas. Message: Keyset does not exist [...]

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   Nov 23

Using command line to run Fitnesse Test

Here are the steps in running the Fitnesse Tests from the command line   Make sure you have Fitnesse and its running       Use this command line Basic running of Fitnesse test using command line   java -cp fitnesse.jar fitnesse.runner.TestRunner localhost 8091 BlastSuitesOsam –v   localhost – the running fitnesse server 8091 – [...]

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