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Shortcut keys for your favorite test runner(TestDriven.Net, Resharper)

Samnang Chhun — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 01:10:40 +0000

Recently, I have spent some time for reading and practicing on small exercises by using TDD for solving the problems. While I was writing more and more tests, I needed to run it more often. Then I realize I am annoyed every time I want to run the current test method, I need to stop from the keyboard and lift my hand to the mouse for running it from the context menu. It’s a kind of less productivity and not be a professional. After that, I found the way how to assign shortcut keys for our favorite unit-test runner like TestDriven.NET and Resharper:

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.

A First Look at Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Samnang Chhun — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:44:23 +0000

Microsoft has just released Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 during this week. Microsoft also sets the stage for the RTM release on March 22, 2010. I didn’t try it in Beta 1, so I decide to try with this release on my Windows 7 RC.

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

Visual Studio Theme Makes Me Different Taste, Different Feeling

Samnang Chhun — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:28:00 +0000

I have been using Visual Studio for a couple of years, but I only work with default environment. Last night, I decided to switch to use new theme to get different taste with black screen editor. I felt so strange at first, but after I worked with it one hour. Then I realized I really love it. It’s like to make my brain refresh and learn something new. Scott Hanselman posted a gallery of ready to use themes to any taste, you can try to get your best environment.

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.

Compile and Test .NET Code Snippet Without Saving

Samnang Chhun — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 02:29:00 +0000

I often find myself creating a new .NET project in Visual Studio.NET every time I want to try some simple pieces of code from books that I read or test some code in my system. Have you ever faced the same problem? If yes, that’s not a big deal forever. I’ve found a little tool invaluable called Snippet Compiler.

The Snippet Compiler is a small Windows-based application that allows you to write, compile, and run .NET 2.0/3.5 code.It has some other features such as intellisense that lets you write code as fast as using Visual Studio.NET, etc, but the ability of just being able to test things quickly is my opinion the best feature.

Snippet Compiler was written by Jeff Key and can be download from http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/.

All I can say is a tool that .NET programmers must have in their development PC. What are your tools?

Fix Google Chrome – Ah, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage

Samnang Chhun — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:47:00 +0000

I have given Google Chrome a try as my default browser instead of Firefox. I really love it, but after while I stalled Symantec Endpoint Protection, I got an error message when I try to load the new Google Chrome. Due to this error I could not use Google Chrome on my machine at all. The error message says:

“Ah, Snap! Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page.”

Following is a screen shot of the error. No matter what I do, I still face this error message.

This problem is most likely because of anti-virus. Luckily, two solutions I learn at the moment are:

Right click on the Chrome’s shortcut and select property and add “–no-sandbox” without quotes to the end of Target.
Symantec has also posted a fix if you have access to the registry:
1. Backup the registry on an affected system.
2. Open the registry on the Agent system by entering regedit from a run prompt .
3. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SysPlant.
4. Open the Start DWORD.
5. Change the value to 4 to disable the drivers.
6. Reboot the system to commit the changes.

Then you are ready to go to see Google Chrome works!!!

Please post in the comment if you have further info or if the suggested solution helped you.