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		<title>More Sprache goodness</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/05/18/more-sprache-goodness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 03:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following my experiment to write a parser for Visual Studio solution files using the Sprache library, I&#8217;d like to share a few Sprache techniques that I found useful. Parse a token into an enum value The Visual Studio solution file format includes a set of Project definitions, each with one or more ProjectSection definitions, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parsing VS Solution files with Sprache</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/05/05/parsing-vs-solution-files-with-sprache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 01:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has worked with Visual Studio and more than one branch of active development has been bitten by the friction of merging solution files. The format of solution files is a bit esoteric, with lots of key=value pairs and guids representing projects, project types, and build configurations. Merging individual lines often requires so much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NuGet Tip #3: Manage packages at the solution level</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/04/21/nuget-tip-3-manage-packages-at-the-solution-level/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=636</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that you&#8217;ve enabled package restore on build and set up your own package feed it&#8217;s time to take a closer look at how we add packages to our projects. Most .NET developers spend a lot of time in visual studio and are more naturally comfortable with the GUI tooling than with command-line alternatives. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is me in grade 9; orNothing is real</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/04/07/this-is-me-in-grade-9-or-nothing-is-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 21:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To follow in the footsteps of fellow blogger Steve Rogalsky, this week I&#8217;d like to share with you a moment from my grade 9 chemistry class that changed forever the way that I learn and communicate. I can still go back to that day, sitting in a school room on the west side of Montreal, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disable the XAML designer in Visual Studio</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/03/24/disable-the-xaml-designer-in-visual-studio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=607</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I interrupt my ongoing series of Nuget tips to bring you the following public service announcement. After working on a WPF app for the past year or so, I have come to realize that no one on our team uses the XAML designer surface that ships with Visual Studio.  We all find it much faster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NuGet Tip #2: Run your own package feed</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/03/09/nuget-tip-2-run-your-own-package-feed/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/03/09/nuget-tip-2-run-your-own-package-feed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=556</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that you&#8217;re using NuGet to manage the 3rd party code dependencies in your project and you&#8217;ve configured Visual Studio and MSBuild to restore missing packages as a pre-build step you can safely remove those packages from source control. This provides a number of advantages, but it does expose you to a few risks: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NuGet Tip #1: Restore Packages on Build</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/02/24/nuget-tip-1-restore-packages-on-build/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nuget package restore is a way to tell MSBuild to download any missing packages as a pre-build step. This means that you can exclude your packages from source control, making your repositories smaller, faster to work with, and cheaper to back up (as you have just removed a bunch of binary data that is painful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NuGet Tips</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/02/24/nuget-tips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 16:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nuget, the defacto package managment system for .NET development, has come a long way in a relatively short time. It does a pretty good job at simplifying and automating the process of downloading and referencing 3rd party libraries. It takes most of the guess work out of which versions of which dependencies need to come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing should be fun</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/02/10/testing-should-be-fun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2013 23:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[TDD]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting moment with a team member this week. We were pairing on a new feature that included some calculations and I suggested that this feature would be a great candidate for writing some unit tests. Despite showing a bit of hesitation, or at least none of the enthusiasm that I have come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 ways to remember which build you&#8217;re running</title>
		<link>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/01/27/3-ways-to-remember-which-build-youre-running/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.spinthemoose.com/2013/01/27/3-ways-to-remember-which-build-youre-running/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidalpert</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.spinthemoose.com/?p=480</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Often when building software we have to juggle several different build configurations, each pointing at different services, accessing different data, etc. During development it can be a huge time saver to have an easy way to know which build you’re looking at. I find this to be important when tracking features, defects, bug fixes, and deployments, for [...]]]></description>
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