• In Visual Studio, Go to “Tools –> Options”
• Select “Environment –> Keyboard”
• In the “Show command containing:” text box, enter your unit-test runner like “TestDriven” or “Resharper_UnitTest”:
  For my personal I have assigned some shortcut keys on:
  • TestDriven.NET.RunTests –> (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+T)
  • TestDriven.NET.Debugger –> (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+D)
  • TestDriven.NET.Debugger –> (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+D)
  • TestDriven.NET.RerunTests –> (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R)
  • Resharper.Resharper_UnitTest_ContextRun –> (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+N)
  • Resharper.Resharper_UnitTest_RunSolution –> (Ctrl+R, Ctrl+S)

  

• Click the “Press shortcut keys:” text box. Now press the the shortcut key to be assigned for running your tests and click the Assign button.
• Don’t forget to set “Use new shortcut in:” to “Text Editor”.

I hope it’s useful for Test Driven Developers who want to get away from using mouse.

Finally, if you are waiting for WPF to support Khmer Unicode, so now it is. Let’s build more and more Khmer localization applications.

The new look Start Page in Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.

Multiple target frameworks and ASP.NET MVC 2 project template.

Dynamic type in C#

VS2010 offers a feature to generate class from calling code, it’s useful to use in TDD.

There many new features on VS2010 and .Net Framework 4 to play with. I really fun with the powerful features that they provide. Hopefully, you will give it a try!

Download: Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2

My New Visual Studio Theme

If you want it, you can download it here. Give an alternate theme a try and let me know what you think.

After I played with Ruby about a few hours, I started loving it. Ruby is a fun toy. Like the differences between spoken languages, Ruby differs from most other programming languages not only by syntax, but by culture, grammar, and customs. And some programmers consider Ruby is English for computers. Ruby brings a new way of thinking about programming and software development. I would like to show you very basic examples, let’s go to see snippet code comparing between C# and Ruby.

//Swap value between two variables
int a = 5, b = 10;
int temp = a;
a = b;
b = temp;

//Output message 3 times
for(int i = 0; i <= 3; i++)
 Console.WriteLine("Hello");

//Output message if condition is true string
str = string.Empty;
if(str == string.Empty)
 Console.WriteLine("str is empty");

#Swap value between two variables
a, b = 5, 10
a, b = b, a

#Output message 3 times
3.times { puts "Hello" }

#Output message if condition is true
str = ''
puts "str is empty" if str.empty?

Code comparisons above are not to show which language is bad and another is good, but I just want to show how I feel about new language. Ruby code is short and readable like in English. There are lots of more powerful features in Ruby that I haven’t mentioned here.

If you haven’t touched something new recently, why don’t you give Ruby a try?

Import template project Instruction:

• Get the latest CastleProject Binary/MSI Installation from http://www.castleproject.org/castle/download.html
• Download template project from Castle MonoRail Project
• Copy it into {your document folder}\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ProjectTemplates

After you are done, you will get your Castle MonoRail Project under My Templates in New Project window.

New MonoRail Project

Project structure

Finally, what are you waiting for? Try MonoRail!