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Christos Matskas

Using NCrunch to enhance your tests in Visual Studio

I have recently come across nCrunch during a code demo. nCrunch is an automated, concurrent testing tool for Visual Studio and I have to say that I am pretty impressed with this ‘little’ piece of software. nCrunch is an 3rd party tool that allows you to continuously run tests as

Configuring Visual Studio 2012 to work with the Xamarin framework and PCLs

If you want to do cross development using Xamarin and Visual studio, you need to install the Xamarin tools for Visual Studio. This will allow you to create solutions that target one or multiple platforms using the magic of MVVM (Model - View - ViewModel) and PCLs (Portable Class Libraries)

An Object with the same key already exists in the ObjectStateManager, Entity Frawework

I have a generic repository which I use in my application to manage a large number of objects. I wrote the necessary unit tests to ensure that all methods work as expected and in isolation all was good. However, as soon as the application started implementing more complex operations, I

Add watermark to textbox and password textbox using HTML5

If you need to add a watermark on your textboxes and wish to avoid ugly Javascript implementations, HTML5 is your friend. Simply use the placeholder attribute with any input element of type text or password, as per the examples below: <input id=”txtUsername” type=”text” placeholder=”Type your username”

Resolving RDLC error: “The report definition is not valid” in Visual Studio 2012

I recently inherited a large number of Microsoft RDLC reports where I had to fix a number of issues before the upcoming release. One of my first tasks was to write a quick “RDLC runner” console application to allow me to test the reports locally. You can download the RDLC

Microsoft Access

Removing the dbo_ prefix from imported tables in MS Access

When importing data from SQL Server using the ODBC connector in MS Access, your tables will end up prefixed with their corresponding schema. In most cases this will be the "dbo" schema. If you need to remove the prefix, these are the steps you need to follow: Open

Microsoft Access

Deleting all data from an MS Access database

If you need to empty/truncate all user data from an MS Access database, the following VB script should do the job: Public Sub TruncateTables() On Error GoTo Error_TruncateTables Dim DB As DAO.Database Dim TDF As DAO.TableDef Dim strSQL_DELETE As String Set DB = CurrentDb() For Each

Windows Azure Review

Windows Azure has been a godsend for developers. I have been using Windows Azure over the past few weeks and I have to say that the overall experience is amazing. I've used Amazon's Web Services in the past and one thing that always marred the experience was the convoluted and