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		<title>Integrating Javascript Unit Tests with Visual Studio – Wrapping Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the grand finale of this four part series. So far you've got your javascript unit tests, you've got them all nicely organized and indexed using the info from the previous post, now how do I get to see those results when I'm inside Visual Studio? For that last cherry on the pie we're [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2012/05/18/integrating-javascript-unit-tests-with-visual-studio-wrapping-up/</link>
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		<title>Integrating Javascript Unit Tests with Visual Studio – Organizing Your Tests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now that your javascript is tested, we need work on getting your test results into Visual Studio. The first step is to organize your tests. You probably don't have one giant C# file for all your unit tests and you probably are going to want different files for your javascript tests. I took an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2012/05/17/integrating-javascript-unit-tests-with-visual-studio-organizing-your-tests/</link>
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		<title>Integrating Javascript Unit Tests with Visual Studio  &#8211; Testing your Javascript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, let's pause...the point of this post series is how to integrate your javascript unit tests with Visual Studio, not to teach you how to use the frameworks I'm discussing.  The rest of this post is going to assume you're familiar with KnockoutJS and Qunit. Knockout is a framework in javascript that let's you create [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2012/05/15/integrating-javascript-unit-tests-with-visual-studio-testing-your-javascript/</link>
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		<title>Integrating Javascript Unit Tests with Visual Studio  &#8211; Intro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been working on a project over the last few months that quickly evolved from a Silverlight project to an ASP .NET MVC3. If you're shifting from Silverlight to MVC and want to maintain that rich client interaction, it means that you're probably going to be writing a lot of javascript code. In fact, we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2012/05/15/integrating-javascript-unit-tests-with-visual-studio-intro/</link>
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		<title>Simplify Unit Testing with IDisposable and the Using Statement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sure I'm not the first to do this or something similar, but I'll pat myself on the back all the same. Recently, I've been doing a lot of IoC and unit testing on some WCF services we're working on. The services take implementations of our IRepository for data access which I've mocked out for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2012/03/16/simplify-unit-testing-with-idisposable-and-the-using-statement/</link>
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		<title>MVVM and Speech using the Kinect-Pt. II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last post I talked about what I recently done with Speech recognition and tying it in with MVVM's concepts of Commands. In this post, I want to walkthrough, step by step of how I set things up.&#160; To get everything installed I just followed the directions for setting up the Kinect SDK, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/07/07/mvvm-and-speech-using-the-kinect-pt-ii/</link>
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		<title>MVVM and Speech using the Kinect&#8211;Pt. I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always been fascinated by interacting with a computer in ways beyond the traditional keyboard and mouse.  The problem is, as I learned while getting my degree in computer science, some problems are really hard. I didn't want to dedicate years to obtaining PhD in computer vision or spend my life doing statistics. But, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/06/30/mvvm-and-speech-using-the-kinectpt-i/</link>
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		<title>Custom Markup Extension To Replace IValueConverter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something that's been around in WPF for a long time but is just seeing the light of day in the upcoming Silverlight 5 release is the concept of a custom MarkupExtension.  For those unfamiliar with the concept, a MarkupExtension is anything within the curly braces "{}" of your xaml. Some examples include, Binding, Static- and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/04/18/custom-markup-extension-to-replace-ivalueconverter/</link>
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		<title>Switching Windows Versions &#8211; &#8220;Downgrading&#8221; to Enterprise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I recently bought a new laptop and asked the IT people at RBA about which version of Windows to install on it. They said it was all on our network so I went out and saw we had both Ultimate and Enterprise versions. Being a sucker for marketing gimmicks I grabbed the Ultimate version [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2011/01/20/switching-windows-versions/</link>
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		<title>Wii Remote Force Calculator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I've been doing a fun side project.  It's always fun when you can come up with an excuse to combine your hobbies or interests.   So I came up with the idea of using a Wii remote to calculate the force of a strike on a heavy bag. I've had to dredge up old [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bignickolson.com/2010/08/11/wii-remote-force-calculator/</link>
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