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Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 09

ashish — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 04:08:00 GMT

The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the future of Microsoft developer technology directly from the people who make it happen. If you’re a developer, architect or technology leader involved in making strategic technology decisions for your company or organization, the PDC is for you.

Since 1991, the PDC has been the epicenter of Microsoft’s biggest platform announcements, including Microsoft .NET, Windows® XP, Windows Vista® and Windows 7®. This year, you’ll hear more details about our services platform, Windows®, the Web, devices, and our next generation of developer tools.

WHAT YOU’LL GET AT THE PDC

Microsoft’s vision and roadmap for the future of developer technology. PDC is where our biggest names make the biggest announcements. Keynoters Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia will share their vision for developer technology at PDC09. More keynoters still to be announced!
Deep, technical content delivered by Microsoft’s technology leaders. At the PDC, you’ll have the unique opportunity to learn directly from the people who conceived and built the latest Microsoft developer platform technologies and tools. Much of what’s featured at the PDC has yet to be released, and as a result, session content comes in ‘hot’ and is published all the way up to the event date. Subscribe to the New Sessions RSS to stay on top of published sessions.

Hands-on access to the latest developer technologies and over 1,000 Microsoft product and technology experts available to answer your questions. The PDC isn’t just about keynotes and sessions – it’s an opportunity for you to get hands-on access to the latest technologies, have your questions answered by Microsoft program managers and developers and plan the features and architecture to support your product and business goals.

Unique networking opportunities with leading-edge developers and technology leaders just like you. You’ll be among your tribe at PDC09, and we’ve planned a number of special events and places for you to take advantage of the opportunity to connect with and learn from attendees that share your technology interests and business challenges.

PDC is going to be fun event, I look forward to see you in PDC09

Visual Studio 2010: What’s in it for the testers?

ashish — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:28:14 GMT

Visual studio 2010 provides following key enhancements to the testers

Create test plans, test suites, test configurations, and test cases with individual test steps
Gather diagnostic information when running a test, and automatically add it to a bug
Record manual test steps and replay them during a future test run
Create automated UI tests
Create virtual environments that define the set of roles required to run a specific application

In this section I’ve complied some useful demonstrations and documentation from channel9 & msdn

Entry point on msdn:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/ms182409(VS.100).aspx

Quick Start Guide for Manual Testers to Get Up and Running:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd380763(VS.100).aspx

Automated User Interface (UI) Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010

http://videos.visitmix.com/MIX09/T83M

Web test debugging feature in VS2010

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/New-Web-Test-Debugging-Features-in-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010/

Test Driven Development in visual studio 2010

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Test-Driven-Development-with-Visual-Studio-2010/

Managing New Testing Efforts with Team Test: (Overview of Test and Lab Manager)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286594(VS.100).aspx

Defining your testing effort using test plans:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286581(VS.100).aspx

Creating manual test cases:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286715(VS.100).aspx

How to: Associate an Automated Test With a Manual Test Case and Run It:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd380741(VS.100).aspx

How to: Create Test Cases from an Assembly of Automated Tests:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd465191(VS.100).aspx

Setting Up Machines and Diagnostic Information to be Collected Using Test Settings:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286743(VS.100).aspx

Creating A Diagnostic Data Adapter to Collect Custom Data or Impact a Test System:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286727(VS.100).aspx

Running Manual Tests with Test Runner:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286725(VS.100).aspx

Recording and Playing Back Manual Tests:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286714(VS.100).aspx

Determining Which Builds Have Bug Fixes, New Features or Requirements:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286586(VS.100).aspx

Recommending Tests to Run That are Affected by Code Changes:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd286589(VS.100).aspx

Localizing DataGrid Headers in ASP.net 2.0

ashish — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:35:00 GMT

While migrating ASP.Net 1.1 to ASP.Net 2.0 there can be a consideration of not upgrading the DataGrid to GridView. Once having migrated if we decide to localize the application there is no straight forward way to do it. I wrote a small sample which will localize the the DataGrid Headers.