Matthew M. Osborn's Blog

Running the Lightweight Test Automation Framework for ASP.NET from a separate application

Matthew M. Osborn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:04:01 GMT

In some instances it might be best if your tests did not run in the same application as the website being tested. This is where the “IApplicationPathFinder” interface comes into play. If you implement this interface you will see that it only has one method...(read more)

Microsoft .NET gets a facelift

Matthew M. Osborn — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:19:26 GMT

For those of you who have been living under a rock today you might not have noticed that the Microsoft .NET logo got a face lift. I know it’s about time! Find out about all the new features being released at PDC08 at http://microsoftpdc.com...(read more)

Tech·Ed EMEA 2008

Matthew M. Osborn — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:48:46 GMT

Well it’s official I will be going to Tech·Ed EMEA this year. This will be my first time in Spain so it should be fun. I will be working the ASP.NET booth for the developer portion of the conference, November 10th through the 14th. If your going to be...(read more)

CSS201: Theory and Practice

Matthew M. Osborn — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:24:35 GMT

To fallow along with this screen cast visit http://css201.osbornm.com To download the source for this screen cast visit http://www.osbornm.com/css201.zip...(read more)

NexusLight: The ASP.NET QA Framework

Matthew M. Osborn — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:29:56 GMT

Yesterday, the Microsoft ASP.NET QA team released a sample to Codeplex that exposed the world to NexusLight. NexusLight is the framework that the ASP.NET team uses to test all of our Features. Before I get a million questions about this let me say that...(read more)

CSS 101: The Basics

Matthew M. Osborn — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:07:50 GMT

To fallow along with this screen cast visit http://css101.osbornm.com To download the source for this screen cast visit http://www.osbornm.com/css101.zip...(read more)

Master pages and their not so master life style

Matthew M. Osborn — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:10:18 GMT

There is no great secrete that I'm letting out of the bag but it is something that I never really had the need to stop and think about, it was just something that I took for granted. Maybe I thought that it worked by some form of magic, maybe I just...(read more)

Mojave: The Next Microsoft OS

Matthew M. Osborn — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:42:57 GMT

Many people HATE vista, even people that are not tech savvy seem to hate it! It’s slow, it crashes, and people have heard nothing but bad things about it. Well I’m going to let all of you in on a little secret! This will all be fixed by Mojave: The Next...(read more)

One month @ Microsoft

Matthew M. Osborn — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:37:20 GMT

This last week I had my one month anniversary at Microsoft. I put off writing a post about the process and my new job because I wanted to do it after a few weeks of work and settling in. So what better time then at one month. I figured I would cover the...(read more)

The Big Blue Monster | My move to Redmond, WA

Matthew M. Osborn — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:16:37 GMT

I normally try to keep my blog entries to code related topics. However, I think I can make an exception for this one entry. For those of you who do not know yet, I have been presented with a once in a life time opportunity. Starting in June, I will be...(read more)

Mobile Browser Test

Matthew M. Osborn — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:36:44 GMT

The WC3 Web Test Suites Working Group has just announced that they have a test for mobile devices . This is an important step as mobile connectivity grows. So head over to there test and see how your mobile device handles it. Short address for the test...(read more)

Community Launch Event | Thanks

Matthew M. Osborn — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:43:15 GMT

I wanted to thank everyone who came out to the Community Launch and listened to my presentation or pretended to listen. If you didn't come I spoke on the new features of SQL Server 2008. With in the next few months I will be presenting again on SQL...(read more)

Community Launch Event | April 10th

Matthew M. Osborn — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:46:15 GMT

The Utah .NET Users Group will be hosting a Community launch event for Visual Studio 2008, Windows Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008. This is a series of event across the country hosted by users groups and sponsored by Microsoft, Ineta, Culminis, and Pass...(read more)

Coding Question: Max Consecutive Characters

Matthew M. Osborn — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:32:55 GMT

Recently I was asked to code a simple method. This method should take in two parameters a string and a character. The goal of the method was to count the max number of consecutive times the character parameter appeared in the string. So an example would...(read more)

Acid3 Released

Matthew M. Osborn — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:57:19 GMT

For those of you who don't know there is a series of web standards tests known as the Acid tests. These test are basically designed to see how close to the standard a browser renders objects. Just a short while ago the IE8 team released a video on...(read more)