I was trying to get SpecFlow to build under Mac OS and had some problems with an MSBuild target (https://github.com/techtalk/SpecFlow/blob/master/Tests/TechTalk.SpecFlow.Specs/.build/build.targets#L32). We need to replace some text in a file with ...

For an upcoming spare time project I need a UI library that work cross- plattform (Windows, Mac OS and Linux). So I began to research research what possibilities are currently available.

This blog post is about the history how we got .NET Core support into SpecFlow and what we learned from that.

Yesterday I started a new Xamarin.Forms project in F# on my Mac. Because the NuGet experience isn’t the best in Visual Studio for Mac, I always use Paket for managing my dependencies.

In preparation of continuing the work on .NET Core/Standard support for SpecFlow and recognising in talks at the MVP Summit, that it is not that simple to explain how SpecFlow works, I thought it would be good to start writing it done.

Sometimes after the .NET team announced that they will add global tools to .NET Core, I asked myself if it would be possible to combine them with Avalonia to make a global tool with an UI.

During my preparation for my latest meetup talk, I noticed that I wasn’t able to switch to presenter mode in Visual Studio. The Quick launch tasks were simply not there.

Last Monday (30. January) a colleague and I gave a talk about the basics of MSBuild. So that also others can enjoy my explanations, I wrote this post.

A year ago I got out of nowhere following eMail:

In SpecFlow+ we are supporting multiple different versions of SpecFlow (currently 1.9, 2.1 and 2.2) and so we have to test each version with the full set of our test suite. As we don’t want to copy a lot of code and then change some references/pac...

During checking for a build error on Mac OS X of the Gherkin parser, I wanted to uninstall all my installed .NET Core SDKs, to have a clean slate.

Two weeks ago in a project we had a XamlParseException when a special page was opened. Strange thing was, that we didn’t change anything of the XAML- Code, since the last working version. There were only some small changes in the code-behind of th...

Finally after 13 months, SpecFlow 2.2 and SpecFlow+ 1.6 (Runner and Excel) were finally released yesterday. Here are the official release notes: http://specflow.org/category/release-notes.

To start a parallel test run, you simply need to change the testThreadCount property in your srProfile to a number higher than 1. How your tests are executed then depends on the testThreadIsolation property.

In the last days I completed the first version of FFRAB-Mobile (see here). I used F# and Xamarin.Forms to gain more experience in a bigger project than a simple example app. You can find the sources here: https://github.com/SabotageAndi/ffrab-mobi...

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For a project I wanted to try out NodaTime, because of its nice handling with timezones. In this project I have also to save the values into a SQLite database and for that I normally use SQLite.net for that. Normally SQlite.net does not know how t...

So after playing with Suave.io, I wanted to add some new bleeding edge stuff to it. 😉 And run it on a beta environment, the DNX 🙂

After I found Suave.IO (lightweight HTTP Server in F#) I wanted to try it out. As I also wanted to play with AngularJS (I know I am a little bit late, but normally I get out of the way of web development). So why not combine both and create a smal...

With my start in working with F#, I came to the point to access a database. When you read my last post, you know that an ORM was out of question. What me really surprised at the end, was that the code is much less than every other DB access I wrot...

After working some years with different OR- Mappers (NHibernate, Entity Framework, proprietary ones, …) to build a lot of line of business applications, I came to the conclusion to trash them.