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A Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation and Silverlight: focusing on getting started and using it

2009-10-28T20:55:54Z

The WPF and Silverlight team is serious about getting you started using NET 4/ Visual Studio 2010 Beta2. To help you with this effort Ted Hu and Mark Wilson-Thomas will be hosting an hour long tour of the designers for two of my favorite technologies the Windows Presentation Foundation(WPF) and Silverlight - focusing exclusively on why would want to use these new designers and of course how to get started!

Hope to see you there!

Thursday 10/29/2009 10am PST

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Work Item Query (WIQ) files not opening in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

2009-10-21T06:41:00Z

Just had one of my friends from the CLR Team(Ashwin Kamath) mention that his WIQ queries were opening in the XML editor in Beta2 of Visual Studio 2010. (You can see he was looking at the bugs you folks have filed on Http://connect.microsoft.com ).

Unfortunately this is the second time i have seen something like this with Beta2 today…looks like we sent Beta2 out with a couple of the file extensions unmapped. Luckily it is really easy to fix.

To (Re)associate WIQ Files to Visual Studio 2010 Beta2:

1. Add your WIQ file to a Visual Studio 2010 project – doesn’t matter which/what type of project.

In this case i just created a new project (File>New Project > Windows Forms Application) and to add a WIQ you can either drag from Windows Explorer or Project>Add Existing Item

2. Right Click on the WIQ file in Solution Explorer and choose “Open With”. You will see the default is the XML Editor…Sorry about that!

3. Choose the Work Item Query View, click the “Set as Default” button and choose okay.

Setting up Offline help/Docs in Visual Studio 2010 Beta2

2009-10-20T20:32:52Z

If you were like me you were so excited to install Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 that you didn’t install the documentation initially…

Then when you went back to install the docs, the option in the setup dialog was disabled!

Well never fear you CAN install offline docs after the initial installation –and the default offline help even explains how.

When you press F1 without the documentation installed you are presented with an HTML page containing the section below(i just added the screen shots):

Installing Offline Content from Media

The name of the file that HLM uses to install content is HelpContentSetup.msha. The MSHA file is an HTML file that identifies help content that can be installed locally.

Use the following instructions to find and install help content from media.

Launch Help Library Manager from the "Help" menu in your software application. Click "Help" > "Manage Help settings".

After HLM launches, click "Find content on media".

Navigate to the directory that contains the content setup file (HelpContentSetup.msha). (In the Beta2 ISO this is called: \ProductDocumentation

Select the file and click "OK". The next window shows the content available on the media, and any content that is already installed.

Select the content to install by clicking the "Add" action next to the content title. When you are finished selecting content to install, click the "Update" button at the bottom of the screen.

HLM will install the content and report on its progress.

Next time you press F1 in VS2010 you should get the new (and totally cool) help experience like the one below:

5 Top Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Resources

2009-10-19T22:01:00Z

As everybody probably already knows Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 has released; that being the case I thought I would pull together the top 5 resources for people getting started.

1.       The Beta2 Page on MSDN

2.       Team Foundation Server Install Guide

3.       Brian Keller’s Channel9 Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

4.       Visual Studio 2010 Product Comparison

5.       My Video on How to get started with Microsoft Test Lab Management and Test Cases

Inspiration from Doug Seven (not work related)

2009-10-09T07:30:20Z

Our chief marketing dude Doug Seven inspired me with the building of a playhouse for his daughter…firmly believing Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery i decided to also build my daughter a playhouse. Unfortunately for my daughter, Natasha, it was raining when i started so rather than building ours outside i decided to repurpose the empty space in our attic. Also unfortunately for Natasha her daddy is cheap -so instead of buying expensive building supplies like well wood i decided use the 1000+ lbs of scrap trim, siding and spare doors the previous owner had left above the garage. ( a different attic attached with a crawl space). Fortunately for Natasha my wife didn’t want a stairwell anywhere visible inside the house so i took a page from the Narnia stories and built a stairwell into the back of a closest (see pictures).

Must admit for less than a $200 at home depot it turned out pretty cool! (For instance the paint was $5 a can from the “oops” mixings)

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Office DevCon 09 Oct 31st Nov 1st Brisbane Australia

2009-10-07T02:27:50Z

University of Queensland will continue a 3 year tradition by hosting the very successful Office Devcon 09.

The speaker list looks like a who’s who of Australian MVPS.

Very Sorry I am going to miss it!…hopefully you won’t make the same mistake!

Office DevCon 2009

Abel Smith Lecture Theatre
Building 23, St. Lucia campus
Campbell Road
University of Queensland

31st October-1st November 2009

Email Address:

admin@officedevcon.com.au

Imaginet and Telerik Introduce Free Team Workload Management Tools

2009-10-06T23:03:26Z

i just saw Imaginet built an entire suite of tools for Managing Team Foundation Server …all built on the Telerik WPF Rad Tools (They look amazing!).

Great work to Joel and the rest of the Imaginet team!

TFS Work Item Manager highlights:

Work Item grid filtering, grouping, and aggregation
Area and Iteration filtering using single and multi select modes
Filter query results using a tree of areas or iterations
Unique Task board view of work items independent from any process template
Print work item cards for the board in your room
Iteration schedule
Paste clipboard contents into a work item
"New Query by example” saves your query for other team members
Search the title and description of query results as you type
Built with RadControls for WPF

Explore TFS Work Item Manager features

TeamCompanion for Outlook Releases version 2.2 Oct6

2009-10-06T22:52:49Z

I was talking to Adam Cogan Chief Architect for SSW over the weekend about productivity tools and he mentioned:

"We are very happy we found this tool from Ekobit. In fact we could not use TFS work items, if we did not have TeamCompanion for Outlook. It is the best add-in for TFS, let alone the best TFS add-in for Microsoft Outlook. It is the perfect solution, as it solves many problems, starting with the missing HTML feature (that even TFS 2010 did not solve). It beautifully integrates e-mail and Outlook with Team Foundation Server and that makes TeamCompanion the single best thing you can do to improve your project communication with developers and clients."

In the VSTS MVP circles the Ekobit Dev Lead Ognjen Bajic is known as the “Croatian Coding Machine” …and must admit he surpassed our expectations with this release!

Well done Ognjen!

If you haven’t used Team Companion before this is a great time.

TeamCompanion 2.2 comes with many features that enhance its usability and improve efficiency of work. It automates series of actions, thus saving time and making common tasks easier. With just one click you can create an email from a work item including all work item attachments, send the email and attach it back to the work item. Another example is the search for emails containing work item’s title or ID available directly from the work item form with just one click. Offline support improvements include background logic that continuously monitors if the client is online or offline and acts accordingly. These and other usability enhancements set new standards in integration between Microsoft Outlook and the Team Foundation Server.
TeamCompanion compatibility with Windows® 7 and with the forthcoming Team System 2010 version are the evidence of continuous improvements and commitment to stay the best team companion tool on the market!
Nothing changes in the update policy for existing customers: there is NO update fee.
For those of you who want to evaluate TeamCompanion, enjoy the trial period for 90 days!

Some of the TeamCompanion new features for version 2.2:

TeamCompanion is compatible with Windows 7*
Better offline support
Search e-mails that contain specified Work Item ID and/or title
Support for Work Item history in Outlook preview pane
More responsive UI due to the asynchronous action execution
New conversion formats for Reports
Create Work Item from mail usability improvements
Sending mail with attachments from Work Item
Team System 2010 Beta support
Compatibility with Microsoft CRM Outlook Addin
... and a lot more available for download now.

http://www.ekobit.com/

MVP TV: Simplifying deployment with the Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy)

2009-10-03T04:00:02Z

The ONLY MSBuild MVP in the world, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, has volunteered to do an MVP TV Session on MSDeploy

Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 4:00PM - 5:00PM Pacific Time (UTC/GMT -7 hours)

https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=PR7D6Z&role=attend&pw=A5128ML0Y0D

MVP TV: Simplifying deployment with the Web Deployment Tool (MSDeploy)

Deploying ASP.NET Websites has always been a challenge and different teams have used different approaches to overcoming those challenges. Microsoft has offered some support for making deployment easier in the past. For instance they first introduced Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2005, and also have a version for 2008. Web Deployment Projects do greatly simplify the process of calling the aspnet_compiler and aspnet_merge tool but even though their title states “Deployment” they had no support for physically deploying the site. Now Microsoft has introduced the Web Deployment Tool, also known as MSDeploy. MSDeploy will bridge the gap between taking a web site and physically deploying it to its destination. With MSDeploy you can easily and very effectively perform tasks such as pushing an ASP.NET site (Web site, Web Application Project, ASP.NET, etc) from one machine to several other machines. This is achieved by the target machines having the MSDeploy Remote Agent Service installed and running. You can sync two different Web Sites that are hosted in IIS, you can create a web package (simply a .zip file) and use that as your source, you can sync two different folders, and many other options. Another compelling feature of MSDeploy is that it will be integrated into Visual Studio 2010. From Visual Studio 2010 you can compile your ASP.NET Web Application Project and then create the Web Package which contains all your content files plus IIS settings. This one file will full describe your web.

About Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi:

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi has a computer engineering degree from the University of Florida.

He is a Microsoft Visual C# MVP. He is the author of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine : Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Microsoft Press 01/09), co-author of Deploying .NET Application: Learning MSBuild and Click Once (Apress 05/2006), and has written several publications for magazines such as the MSDN Magazine. He is a developer and independent consultant in Jacksonville, Florida. He is an expert in the financial, education, and collection industries.

TFS Beta2 Setup Chat Postponed until Oct 19th!

2009-10-03T03:31:21Z

Just wanted to let people know the TFS Chat Originally scheduled for Oct 15th needed to be pushed out to Oct 19th…

If you missed it the first time the details below:

Get ready for Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2: Chat with the TFS Setup and Admin Team

The Team Foundation Server Setup and Admin team would like to help get you ready for Team Foundation Server Beta2 with a live presentation via live meeting.

While the session will focus on getting Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) up and running Ed will also be touching on the features that now enable TFS to “scale down” to the smallest development efforts from both resource and administration point of view. This will session be a little different than my normal presentations in that we will also be running a parallel chat session for people to ask questions in real time.

Note: there are only 50 connections on the phone bridge so if you have problems connecting via phone please use the computer audio provided by the live meeting link.

Presenter: The TFS Setup Admin Team & Ed Holloway Senior Program Manager

Date: Thursday Oct/19/2009

Time: 9:00am-10:00am PST
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Agile Database Techniques using Visual Studio Team System Database Edition

2009-09-30T05:36:41Z

Just found out that Richard might be back in Town Dec…If he does his training is not to be missed!

Agile Database Techniques

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to properly manage the SQL Server database development lifecycle in an agile environment. The student will learn how to manage changes to the database structure, ensuring quality through T-SQL unit testing, and how to automate the building and deploying of SQL Server databases. Intended for developers and administrators already comfortable with the concepts of designing, programming, testing, and deploying SQL Server databases, this course focuses on using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition to maximize productivity while minimizing mistakes.

Price: $1995.00 (USD)
Pricing may be different in locations outside the United States
Language(s): English
Length: 3 Days

Pre-requisites:

Before attending this course, the student should have experience developing and maintaining SQL Server 2000, 2005, or 2008 databases. It would also be beneficial if the student has worked in a team-based software development project and is familiar with their organization’s Software Development Life Cycle.

Signup to hear about for upcoming dates for the Agile Database Techniques

Agile Database Techniques Dates

Dec 2-4, 2009
Seattle, WA
Instructor: Richard Hundhausen

Visual Studio Team System Events (Both VSTS 2008 and 2010)

2009-09-29T22:26:13Z

My good friends at Notion have put together a killer set of webcasts, roadshows and training courses…mention my name at any of Ed Blankenship’s training events and receive preferred seating!

(Guessing that means in one of the corners)

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Events!

At Notion Solutions, our primary focus is to maximize your success with Visual Studio Team System. Below is a listing of all the remaining Visual Studio Team System events between now and the end of the year, such as:

· VSTS 2010 Roadshows

To register for any event, just click on a date below!

For a list of all upcoming events, please visit our Notion Solutions Events page by clicking here. To send comments or feedback, email us at info@notionsolutions.com or call us anytime at (972)607-4833.

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Roadshows

Accelerate Your Software Process with Visual Studio Team System 2010 Roadshow

Come join Microsoft and Notion Solutions as we present the latest tools and techniques for managing your software process to attain quality software. Microsoft’s tools make implementing a predictable process simpler than ever, but you need to know what your options are. This roadshow is all about making sure you know what is possible so that you can start planning how to improve your organization’s ability to deliver quality software to your customers.

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Courses

Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010 (4-Day Course)

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to improve the development practices of their entire organization and team. This course covers a broad set of features provided with Visual Studio Team System 2010 to assist your team with application design, test management and execution, development standards and collaboration, automated build and release management, database schema management and test lab management. This course covers all of the most important features without going overly deep. By the end of the course, students are equipped to better understand how Visual Studio Team System 2010 can be used within their organizations. This course is currently taught using Beta 1 of Visual Studio Team System 2010.

Dallas, TX

October 26 – 29, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm CT

Tester Training with Visual Studio Team System 2010 (4-Day Course)

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to use the latest testing tools provided by Visual Studio Team System 2010 to improve their ability to manage and execute test plans. Test case creation and management will be covered, as well as test execution and automation practices. Creating and managing virtual lab environments using Team Lab will be discussed within the context of test planning and execution. By the end of the course, students are equipped begin planning the implementation of Visual Studio Team System 2010 for improving testing practices within their organizations. This course is currently taught using Beta 1 of Visual Studio Team System 2010.

Dallas, TX

November 2 - 6, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm CT

Development Training with Visual Studio Team System 2010 (4-Day Course)

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to improve the development practices of their organization and team. This course focuses on improving interaction between team members as well as enhancing architecture compliance, coding practices and debugging techniques using tools all integrated directly into Visual Studio 2010. By the end of the course, students are equipped to enforce architecture and coding standards, perform unit testing during builds, setup gated checkin processes, use historical debugging, uncover performance bottlenecks and interact better with test teams. This course is currently taught using Beta 1 of Visual Studio Team System 2010.

Dallas, TX

November 9 - 12, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm CT

Database Training with Visual Studio Team System 2010 (4-Day Course)

This course provides knowledge and skills to manage database objects using Team Foundation Version Control, Team Foundation Build, and tools that aid in database testing, test data generation and deployment all integrated directly into Visual Studio 2010. By the end of the course, students are equipped to use managed techniques for testing, versioning and deploying databases to create high-quality databases. This course is currently taught using Beta 1 of Visual Studio Team System 2010.

Dallas, TX

November 16 - 19, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm CT

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Webcasts

Looking Ahead to Team System 2010 Webcast
This is an overview of Team System 2010 and highlights the difference between 2008 and 2010. Key emphasis will also be put on what migration steps need to be taken to make use of all of the new features, including the testing tools, version control, work item tracking and build enhancements. As a basis for demonstration, the development processes and practices used to create Notion Tools for Team System will be demonstrated, including branching models, build and deployment automation, custom reporting and workflows.
Sept. 17, 2009 1:00pm CT	Oct. 15, 2009 1:00pm CT	Nov. 17, 2009 1:00pm CT	Dec. 15, 2009 1:00pm CT

Looking Ahead to Testing with Team System 2010 Webcast
This is an overview of the VSTS 2010 testing tools including using the new Microsoft Test & Lab Manager to manage your testing and using test automation to automate your UI testing. The use of Test Lab will be discussed as a means of automating the creation of virtual environments for testing purposes. Deploying to VM environments during build will be demonstrated and facilitate a robust developer/tester lifecycle. For a taste of real-world use, the test plans and test process used to perform multi-platform testing of Notion Tools for Team System will be demonstrated.
Sept. 10, 2009 2:30pm CT	Oct. 8, 2009 2:30pm CT	Nov. 12, 2009 2:30pm CT	Dec. 10, 2009 2:30pm CT
Looking Ahead to Development Practices with Team System 2010 Webcast
This is an overview of the new development and database tools in Team System 2010. The new capabilities of historical debugging, code analysis, profiling and the new test impact analysis will all be demonstrated. Working with Team Foundation Server 2010, gated-checkin will be discussed as well as the tester/developer collaboration experience. The new architect tools will be demonstrated to facilitate a better understanding of how modeling is a part of the development experience.
Sept. 24, 2009 3:00pm CT	Oct. 22, 2009 3:00pm CT	Nov. 19, 2009 3:00pm CT	Dec. 17, 2009 3:00pm CT

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Courses

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Class (2-Day Course)

This course covers the major components of Visual Studio® 2008 Team Foundation Server. Learn how to build your organization’s software process into Team Foundation Server by modifying the out-of-the box process templates for MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI® Process Improvement. This course covers version control, reporting, automated build, work item tracking, and project management.

Chicago, IL

September 21 – 22, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm CT

Washington, DC

October 19 - 20, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm ET

Testing Applications with Visual Studio Team System 2008 (2-Day Course)

This course provides hands-on experience with all the Team System testing functions including: defect reporting, defect tracking, and manual test creation, as well as execution of manual, Web, load, and unit tests. It covers how to utilize reporting features and create quality reports used to analyze the status of projects.

Chicago, IL

September 23 – 24, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm CT

Washington, DC

October 19 - 20, 2009 8:30am-5:00pm ET

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Webcasts

Improving your Software Process with Team Foundation Server 2008 Webcast

Overview of Team System primarily focused on the collaboration components available with Team Foundation Server. This webcast will discuss work item tracking, version control, automated build, reporting, and overall workflow. This webcast will also discuss common short-comings and how to address them today, as well as mention what to expect with the release of Visual Studio Team System 2010.

Oct. 1, 2009 1:00pm CT

Nov. 5, 2009 1:00pm CT

Dec. 3, 2009 1:00pm CT

Improving your Software Testing with Team System 2008 Webcast

Overview of the Team System 2008 testing tools including manual testing, automated web and load testing. In addition, integrating the testing process into Team Foundation Build will all be demonstrated in detail.

Sept. 10, 2009 1:00pm CT

Oct. 8, 2009 1:00pm CT

Nov. 12, 2009 1:00pm CT

Dec. 10, 2009 1:00pm CT

Improving Development Practices with Team System 2008 Webcast

Overview of the best practices for using the development tools in Team System. With the merger of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition and Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition, the opportunity for implementing process and tooling for your database schemas has never been better. The best uses for code analysis, unit testing and code coverage for your .NET code will be covered. This session includes a detailed demonstration of how to manage database change using version control, data generation, unit testing, code analysis and automated build.

Sept. 24, 2009 1:00pm CT

Oct. 22, 2009 1:00pm CT

Nov. 19, 2009 1:00pm CT

Dec. 17, 2009 1:00pm CT

Chance to win a free HD Zune and free VSTS 2010 Training in a Northwest City near you!

2009-09-23T07:09:25Z

Two of the best VSTS presenters in the world (Jeff Levinson and Steve Borg) are once again offering free VSTS classes…and bribing you with a chance to win an HDZune per each location

(Right now there is less than 50 people registered for Portland so a 1:50 chance of winning!)

Better Software Quality with Visual Studio Team System 2010

Please join Microsoft and Northwest Cadence for these free half-day sessions designed to introduce you to the quality tools of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010.

Learn how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) coupled with ALM tooling will help organizations build quality into their lifecycle. Many of the great features of Visual Studio Team System 2010 will help you break down organizational walls between your developers and testers. Get better software with Visual Studio Team System 2010.

This event is geared towards both non-technical and technical testers, developers, project managers, QA managers, and others interested in improving the quality of your code.

Session Topics

Understanding the Visual Studio Team System Quality Tools

Tour the quality tools available in VSTS 2010, including Test Case Management, Bug Tracking, Test Cases and the new Microsoft Test and Lab Manager interface. See how VSTS 2010 can provide traceability from requirements to code, test runs, bugs, tested environments and code.

Running Test Cases & Filing Bugs

We will show you how to use the Test Runner to run manual tests against a particular test environment, take screenshots, and file a series of bugs. All this while automatically recording a video of your test being completed.

Fixing the Bug (Developer)

Discover how Historical Debugging is a new feature of VSTS 2010 that you will not want to miss! Learn how to reproduce filed bugs using Historical Debugging, enabling you to break down the biggest wall separating developers and testers.

Automating a Regression Test

Find out how to turn a manual test into an automated regression test. You can even schedule it to run during an automated build!

Creating a New Test Plan

During this session we will create a new test plan, showing you how to set up Data Collectors for the computers in your environment, define the various test environment combinations, and map relationships between test cases and requirements.

Rounding Out Your Knowledge

Understand the more advanced features of VSTS 2010 including Lab Manager, Test Controllers and Agents, and the numerous quality reports that can guide an effective development process.

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Portland
September 29, 2009

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September 30, 2009

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October 06, 2009

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October 07, 2009

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October 07, 2009

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October 20, 2009

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October 22, 2009

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October 23, 2009

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November 03, 2009

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November 04, 2009

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November 05, 2009

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Get ready for Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2: Chat with the TFS Setup and Admin Team

2009-09-19T05:56:56Z

The Team Foundation Server Setup and Admin team would like to help get you ready for Team Foundation Server Beta2 with a live presentation via live meeting.

Note: there are only 50 connections on the phone bridge so if you have problems connecting via phone please use the computer audio provided by the live meeting link.

Presenter: The TFS Setup Admin Team & Ed Holloway Senior Program Manager

Date: Thursday Oct/15/2009

Time: 9:00am-10:00am PST
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Two new developer security tools (and videos on how to use them)

2009-09-17T06:24:06Z

The Security team has been busy since i have last met with them….in addition to the SDL Integration white paper they have also released two new tools and videos on how to use them.

BinScope enables you to scan your code to verify you are setting important security protections such as:

Proper security compiler switches (such as /GS, /SafeSEH, /NXCOMPAT, and /DYNAMICBASE)
Using .NET strong-named assemblies,
Known good ATL headers
Up-to-date compilers
Not using dangerous constructs such as global function pointers.

For a Video of this tool in action please see:

http://edge.technet.com/Media/binscope-overview-and-demo/

MiniFuzz File Fuzzer is a simple file fuzzer that is designed to ease your introduction into fuzz testing by supplying file formats that your application would otherwise not expect.

For a Video of this tool in action please see:

· http://edge.technet.com/Media/minifuzz-overview-and-demo/