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I no longer build C# apps

Okay so the title is slightly misleading, I'm still writing   code in C# (.Net) but I'm no longer manually building the solution inside Visual Studio, no F5, no Ctrl+Shift+B... You might be thinking huh? What I mean is I no longer go round the continual cycle of  write code, compile code, test code, refactor code etc. We've managed to remove the compile & test  phases from the development process and I can't elaborate how liberating this is. This has been achieved by using a continuous testing framework - tests are executed as you write the code. I found this article back from 2007 stating all the benefits you'll get from using such a framework - ' It’s turning the knob on Test Driven Development up to 11 ' - so true... I'm currently working in an environment where the main constraint is not the tools we're using but the underlying OS. We're stuck with 32 bit Win XP machines for at least the short to medium term and our biggest pro...