I love my intellisense. As such, I am very critical when there's a bug affecting its functionality. The bug I ran into late in the VS 2008 product cycle while doing application-building was, unfortunately, not considered high enough priority to fix so...

As part of our effort to test Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere (WPF/E) on the Mac, I'm working on a UI Automation tool to drive WPF/E apps from out of process. In the anticipation that WPF/E will eventually support Accessibility (and I assure...

You've probably seen this already, but if not, you should really check out the video preview of Yahoo!'s messenger app built with WPF. http://messenger.yahoo.com/windowsvista.php is the link. I can't wait to see this thing running live. It really seems...

The bug in the VS debugger that has been a thorn in my side for well over a year is now fixed in the next version of VS! If you're a religious VS developer, I'm almost positive you've hit this bug before, although you may not have noticed. The bug in...

TestSuites.cs file generated by my model, and parse it out into multiple .cs files each representing one testcase. This sounded great to me, because my TestSuites.cs file was 113Mb, and splitting it out into around 300 testcase files sounded good to me...

I had the pleasure of speaking to the ISU students on Tuesday this week. I gave a high-level overview of WPF (Avalon) and Windows UIAutomation (vNext of MSAA). I wanted to go ahead and get my basic slide deck posted in case anyone wanted it. Sorry I don...

Thanks to Ed from Comcast for pointing out that my 1/17/06 post regarding Windows Forms ID's was missing the NativeMethods.cs file. Sorry for the inconvenience, Ed. Here's the NativeMethods.cs file that will help you get the code up and running. using...

Happy New Year and stuff! =) If you've read my article on issues related to automating Windows Forms with traditional Win32-like UI Automation tools, then you know about what we refer to as the Windows Forms ID. If you're not familiar with the issue...

The "why should you care?" part is much harder to answer, so I'll just start with who I am =). I'm Brian McMaster, and I'm a Test Architect at Microsoft. I'm currently working on "Cider." Cider is the codename for the line of business application designer...