I'm Jake, a Senior Developer working for Readify, Microsoft MVP (VSTO) and spend most of my spare time doing open source WPF, VSTO, WCF and Silverlight development, or speaking at local user groups.

Unless specified all code on this blog is released under MIT License.

Recent Posts

Apr 13 2013
Apr 5 2013

Redirecting Process Output

When using Process.Start in .net it is actually not that easy to capture the output. Here is some code to help

c#.net
Mar 15 2013

Awaitable DelegateCommand

Use MVVM, DelegateCommand, testing and c# 5 async features. You want to see this

mvvmasyncdelegatecommand
Dec 11 2012

Disable Narrator in Windows 8

Use resharper and accidently hit win+enter rather than alt+enter and Narrator pops up? This is how you disable it

windows8
Oct 28 2012

Announcing TestStack.White

White is a great rich client UI automation framework which has been inactive for a while. We are restarting the project!

ui-automationwhiteopen-source
Oct 16 2012
Sep 16 2012
Aug 22 2012

VSTOContrib Context Menus

An issue for VSTO Contrib was submitted, it was hard to wire up context menus, this is now fixed

vsto-contrib
Aug 21 2012
Aug 13 2012
Jul 30 2012

DDD Melbourne Rest Talk

I did a talk on REST and introduced RESTbeer. Here are my slides and links

Jun 30 2012

Azure and msshrtmi.dll

When adding Azure support to FunnelWeb, I ran into issues with Azure and msshrtmi.dll. Here is my solutions

azure
Mar 8 2012

Getting Started with ApprovalTests without installing TortoiseSVN

If you don't have TortoiseSVN installed the DiffReporter will fail, use Chocolatey to get started!

Feb 19 2012
Sep 23 2011

WP7 MVC Debug and Tracing

Now that WP MVC is maturing, it is important that when you have performance issues or any issues, you can find the problem easily!

wp7mvcopen-source
Sep 10 2011

WP7 Essentials Settings Provider

The WP7 Essentials library is constantly evolving, the most recent addition is a UI for settings used with the Settings Provider

wp7essentialswp7open-source
Aug 30 2011

My Sessions at TechEd 2011

I am doing two talks and a few demos at TechEd Au. If you are there, come have a look.

vstowp7presentations
Aug 23 2011

MultiTargeted WP7 Project

After seeing Shaun Wildermuths post on this subject, I thought I would share how I do it

wp7open-sourcemsbuild
Aug 22 2011

Windows Phone MVC Update

I have just pushed a MASSIVE update! So many enhancements, bug fixes, and maturity is in this release.

wp7mvcopen-source
Aug 21 2011

Phone Test Project Template

I have released a phone test project to the visual studio gallery allowing you to File -> New Windows Phone Test Project

wp7wp7essentialsopen-source
Jul 24 2011

Windows Phone MVC - Released

I have been working on a MVC framework for Windows Phone 7 for a while. It is up on codeplex and it is slowly maturing.

wp7mvcopen-source
Jul 22 2011

No more R# warnings for nHibernate aliases

When using QueryOver projections with type safe aliases, r# will warn that the value is always null. Here is a trick to remove the warning

nHibernateresharperc#
Jul 22 2011

MVVM, Design Time vs IoC usage

After a discussion via twitter I thought I would post my thoughts around how I would wire up views/viewmodels when not using a specific framework

c#wpf
Jul 21 2011

ClickOnce Bootstrapping Errors

Once again I have wasted a heap of time trying to get ClickOnce publishing on a build server. Here is how to get it working.

teamcitymsbuild.net
Jul 13 2011

UI TDD - UI Automation Experiment

After using UI automation in a project which went live yesterday, I wanted to try UI TDD with my lessons learnt. This is the story.

ui-automationopen-source
Jun 30 2011

DDD Sydney - Rich Client Automation

I will be speaking at DDD Sydney this weekend. My topic is Rich Client UI Automation, without shooting yourself in the foot

evangelozui-automationdddpresenting
Jun 22 2011

NuGet Packages targeting WP7

NuGet 1.4 has just come out, as has the mango tools. 1.4 breaks existing targets, here is my solution

mangowp7nuget
Jun 10 2011

Comment Posting Fixed

While doing a large upgrade to FunnelWeb, I was dogfooding. Unfortunately I forgot to update my blog when I pushed my updates into the dev repository

.net
Jun 10 2011

WP7 Essentials Released!

While at MobileCampOz, Brendan Kowitz and I were discussing the need for a essentials library for WP7, this library is focused on code issues, not UI

open-sourcewp7wp7essentials
Jun 2 2011

TFS Merge Tools Configuration

Every time I format my machine, I have to think of all the different file extensions I work with. Here is my list.

tfs.net
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