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Time Tortoise: Upgrading to .NET Standard

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Oct 14 0

.NET Standard Class Library

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page.

In January of this year, when I first started experimenting with the code that would become Time Tortoise, I was using Visual Studio 2015 for my development environment. When Visual Studio 2017 was released, I upgraded. Well, technology moves on, and while VS2017 remains my environment of choice, it’s time for a .NET upgrade.

Time Tortoise: Daily Summary File, Part 2

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Oct 5 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. This week’s task: an initial implementation of the Daily Summary File.

Time Tortoise: Unit Testing SignalR

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 27 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. In a recent code coverage check, I noticed that I was missing test […]

Time Tortoise: Daily Summary File

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 20 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. I’m working on a text file user interface for Time Tortoise. For the […]

Time Tortoise: Settings, Part 2

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 16 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. Last week, I described the settings infrastructure that I’m building for Time Tortoise. […]

Time Tortoise: Settings

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Sep 9 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. Last week, I explained some ways I’ll be using text files in the […]

Time Tortoise: Reading and Writing Text Files in UWP Apps

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Aug 30 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. As described last week, I’m starting to build infrastructure for a text file […]

Time Tortoise: Text File User Interface

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Aug 23 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. A Time Tortoise feature consists of a user interface, and one or more […]

Time Tortoise: Class Library Project Types

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Aug 16 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. This week saw the release of .NET Standard 2.0. According to the announcement, […]

Time Tortoise: Idle Time Unit Testing, Part 2

By Duncan Smith Leave a Comment Aug 11 0

This is one in a series of articles about Time Tortoise, a Universal Windows Platform app for planning and tracking your work schedule. For more on the development of this app and the ideas behind it, see my Time Tortoise category page. I’m in the process of resolving a unit test backlog for the Time […]