Matthew Manela's Blog
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My recent writing can be found on Medium. I have been writing about running a strong software...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/07/2017
Chutzpah 4.3.0 – Web Server Mode
Chutzpah 4.3.0 is now available and its largest new feature is Web Server mode. Web Server Mode...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/22/2016
Pin a work item query in VS Code
A couple weeks ago the VSTS Extension for VS Code was released. This extension adds command and...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/02/2016
Automate Visual Studio Team Services with PowerShell
One of the main skills programmers have is the ability to automate the mundane. In my day to day job...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/20/2016
Chutzpah 4.1 – Visual Studio Debugger Support
A week ago Chutzpah 4.1 which finally adds the ability to debug your unit tests directly from Visual...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/12/2015
Chutzpah 4.0 – Batching, Inheritance and more
Chutzpah 4.0 cleans up some of the legacy baggage while adding the much requested feature of test...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/08/2015
Chutzpah 3.3.0
Chutzpah 3.3.0 is now available at your usual locations. Changes Update to QUnit 1.16 Update to...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 01/25/2015
Chutzpah is now on GitHub
Today, I moved Chutzpah from CodePlex to GitHub. I made this move for a few reasons The feature set...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/15/2014
Avoiding side effects when traversing an IVsHierarchy in Visual Studio
There was a bug filed against Chutzpah reporting that Chutzpah’s Visual Studio extension was causing...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/09/2014
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Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/09/2014
Chutzpah 3.2 – A smarter approach to compilation
Chutzpah 3.2 introduces a new and improved method for supporting languages which compile to...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/10/2014
Chutzpah 3.1 – Smarter test running and Jasmine 2.0
Chutzpah 3.1 has a few improvements that were originally targeted for the 3.0 release. As...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 02/09/2014
Chutzpah 3.0: Mocha, RequireJS and more…
Chutzpah 3.0 resolves two of the most requested features: Mocha test framework and better RequireJS...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 12/05/2013
Chutzpah and Snippet Designer now support Visual Studio 2013
I released updates for both Chutzpah (2.5.0) and Snippet Designer (1.5.0) which adds support for...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/01/2013
Chutzpah 2.4.2
This release of Chutzpah contains a few bug fixes, upgraded versions of Blanket.js and TypeScript...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 07/10/2013
Chutzpah 2.4 – Code Coverage is a go!
With the Chutzpah 2.4 release one of the most asked for features is now available: built-in code...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/22/2013
Using SignalR in an ARR cluster
My team ran into an issue when deploying an application which uses SignalR on a clustered...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/05/2013
Chutzpah 2.3 Released
This release contains a couple important new features and bug fixes. Chutzpah now gives you more...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 01/13/2013
Chutzpah 2.2 with TypeScript support
This release contains a few new features most notably that Chutzpah can now work directly on...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 10/25/2012
Quickly moving up a directory tree
I am lazy and I have been working recently on optimizing my PowerShell profile to become faster from...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 10/05/2012
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Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/24/2012
Chutzpah 2.1 now with CoffeeScript support
Chutzpah 2.1 is now available. This release contains a few new features but most notable is that...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/08/2012
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Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/08/2012
Chutzpah 2.0 Released
Chutzpah 2.0 is now available. This release contains many new and hopefully exciting changes. You...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 07/13/2012
Snippet Designer now supports C++
Snippet Designer 1.4.2 is available on the Visual Studio Gallery and on CodePlex. Visual Studio 2012...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/18/2012
Anatomy of the Chutzpah test adapter for VS 2012 RC
Coinciding with the release Visual Studio 2012 RC, I pushed an update of the Chutzpah test...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/12/2012
Snippet Designer now supports Visual Studio 2012 RC
Snippet Designer 1.4.1 is now available on the Visual Studio Gallery and on CodePlex which adds...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/09/2012
Making linking between anchors in an IFrame work in Firefox 11 and above
About a year ago I wrote the post Making linking between anchors in an IFrame work in Firefox 4 and...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/30/2012
Chutzpah 1.4.0 Released
A new version of Chutzpah is now available. Grab the new bits from CodePlex and NuGet or go to the...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/13/2012
Chutzpah test adapter for Visual Studio 11 Beta
Visual Studio 11 Beta was released today and one of the many cool new features is the Unit Test...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 02/29/2012
A Monadic Pratt Parser
A while ago I read the book Beautiful Code which contains articles from several well known...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 12/29/2011
A Monadic Pratt Parser
Introduction I recently read Beautiful Code which contains articles from several well known...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 12/28/2011
Chutzpah 1.3.0 Released
A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery, CodePlex and now NuGet. This release...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/19/2011
Moving and renaming resource keys in a .resx file
I work on websites where we have several resource files that are localized in many languages. This...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 11/09/2011
Chutzpah 1.2.0 Released
A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery, CodePlex and now NuGet. This release...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/11/2011
Make your website faster with RequestReduce
My co-worker Matt Wrock released an open source project on GitHub and Nuget called...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/10/2011
Update on inheriting base type mappings with AutoMapper
Several months ago I wrote this post which shows an extension method for inheriting the mappings on...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 09/02/2011
Chutzpah 1.1.0 Released
A new version of Chutzpah is now live on Visual Studio Gallery and CodePlex. This release contains...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 08/08/2011
A combined Mercurial and Git PowerShell Prompt
A while ago I posted the code I use to create a custom PowerShell prompt to show the status of my...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 07/15/2011
Making linking between anchors in an IFrame work in Firefox 4 and above
In Firefox 4 a security fix was added which prevents linking between anchors within an IFrame that...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/30/2011
Chutzpah: A JavaScript Test Runner Released
I just released to CodePlex and the Visual Studio Gallery a new project called Chutzpah. Chutzpah is...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/19/2011
Return type overloading in Haskell
Function overloading is very common in many programming languages like C# but most of the languages...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/17/2011
Snippet Designer 1.4.0 Released
Snippet Designer 1.4.0 has been released. You can get it from its CodePlex page, on the Visual...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 06/14/2011
DiffPlex 1.2 Released
I released version 1.2 of the DiffPlex library on both CodePlex and Nuget. This new version contains...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/23/2011
Refactor now, not later
Imagine this situation (one I’ve been in too many times): you have been working on a piece of code...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/12/2011
Regex Hero: Free online regular expression tester
A regex tester is one of those tools developers often need. I used many different ones over the...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 05/10/2011
Converting between RTF to HTML and HTML to RTF
A while back I posted Converting RTF to HTML which showed how to convert RTF text into HTML markup...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 04/27/2011
The problem with the EnvDTE ItemOperations.NewFile method
During my work on the latest version of the Snippet Designer I was struggling with solving an issue...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/09/2011
Snippet Designer 1.3.1 Released
var addthis_product = 'wpp-252'; var addthis_config =...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 03/04/2011
Visually view all events attached to DOM elements
I recently found this tool called Visual Event which helps you view and inspect all events attached...
Author: Matthew Manela Date: 02/25/2011