When working with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), you might want to run two at a time. We often want this internally so we can test MTM with MTM. However, when we created MTM, we didn’t want people to accidently open up multiple instances just because they...

There was a interesting question posted in my comments on the TRX file format , about being able to republish results to TFS Server. This is an oft requested behavior, and the short answer is "no, you can't". Once you've published it, it's there forever...

I've recently been trying to resolve some issues related to large fonts / high DPI, and while they've all been simple, one thing had been bothering me in my "designer hat" mode of thinking. We've got the titles of a number of documents in our shell selectable...

One of the questions that comes up internally, and externally is "What are these magic GUID attributes in the file? How can I generate them?". This is often from people who are creating tools to export TRX files from some sort of private test hardness...

There was an internal discussion this week about the need to run unit tests under MTA threads, rather than the default STA -- either for COM, or in this specific discussion for WaitHandle.WaitAll. Mark Seemann went and posted a short guide on how to enable...

I was writing some unit tests yesterday, and needed to test a private method. As I was gleely tapping in the code to call my static method using PrivateType, I noticed that two of my parameters were "out" parameters. I immediately went 'Hmm, I bet private...

I've been playing around with WPF recently, and one of the things I've ended up doing is creating a set of custom controls (rather than User controls), as well as what I will call 'aggregation' classes[1]. Some of these have had a fair chunk of code that...

Some of the team are at the STARWest conferance in Anaheim this week. We're here for the two "Tutorial" days, and the full conference itself. While we're not here to demo, or hang out in the expo hall (We're just regular attendies), we'd love to meet...

Well, It's been a long time since I blogged - actually, I've not blogged since we shipped our very first release just after Beta 1. So, what’s been happening with the Testing tools in Team System? Well, I've still got Test View, Manual Testing and Test...

Ok, So I’d thought about this blog yesterday but discounted it ‘cause its not really my area. But what the heck :) There is a very cool feature, which isn’t fully surfaced yet in the UI. This allows you to define new properties...

Ok, you’ve written your tests, and you want to debug them or you’ve got a test failing and you can’t quite see why. What are you gonna do? Well, right now we don’t have built in support for debugging of tests, but there is a sneaky...

Another problem with the run configuration is that the template runconfig (The one that gets added to new solutions) can easily become overwritten with your user one, thus potentially screwing up test execution for all projects AND new projects. This...

One of the problems we came across during the last moments of testing for the CTP was a very rare situation where setup will tell you that it has failed, implying your screwed and will have a very messy setup. This is not what it seems at first :) ...

This is a problem we only found out after we’d sent off the DVDs to be pressed, and turns out to easy to repro, but also easy to workaround. It’s also got a slightly strange workflow compared to the way we think a lot of people will be using...

Let’s take a look at the Test View tool window – the place where you will be running your tests from as you develop and debug them. Test View provides you with a flat list of all your tests, with each test only listed once. From this window...

I’m Dominic, and I’m an SDE/T on the Enterprise Developer Tools team here at Microsoft, which is part of the bigger Visual Studio Team System product. Specifically within EDT, I work the quality tools team – we own the unit testing,...