This is worth checking out if you haven't seen it yet: http://blogs.msdn.com/powertoys/

Came across this today and it seemed interesting. Video from Osellus on "Enacting IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP®) in Visual Studio Team System" http://www.osellus.com/solutions/microsoft/rup-vsts/

I had the chance to watch a first time profiler user go through a profiling scenario this morning. We got everything humming but there was a learning curve and some less than helpful error messages along the way. Here are the takeaways: Permissions...

There is some key information that needs to be passed to team members who want to start using a team project. Namely the TFS server machine name and also the team project name. You can get all of this information and more in the text field summary pane...

Disclaimer applies, if you have better suggestions please leave comments. One of the unit test features is the capability to automatically generate unit tests for ASP.NET 2.0 code inside the App_Code folder. In my experience this is one of those areas...

One of my ISV buddies is looking for beta testers for a new voice commenting system they are developing. The idea being you can attach a microphone and then leave a voice comment describing your code with a special comment tag totally integrated inside...

This is probably spam for most of you but it's more of a public service announcement for anyone like me living near Microsoft. If you want someone to refer your friends, neighbors, family, to when they have computer problems so you don't have to fix them...

Soma officially announced the logistics of Visual Studio 2005 + Team Foundation Server scheduling this morning: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2005/08/22/451026.aspx

One of my ISV buddies needed to help a customer declutter the "Send To" menu, here's how: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article05-404

Show Off is an evening event held at the PDC where you can show off your application, tip, tool, technique, animation, or anything cool that can help or inspire other developers. http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=102337

More testing advice. Sometimes you hit a bug you know is going to be hard for the dev to repro, and more to the point, you know ahead of time that when you do find a bug it is going to be terribly difficult to repro it. If you value your relationship...

On our internal dogfood work item system I have had an interesting experience these last few days. A custom work item type we have has grown into a situation where we are sticking aggregated information into the comment string field of the links tab instead...

Daisy presents a persuasive argument for focusing on test coverage discussions when bug counts are low: http://quality-assurance-software-testing.blogspot.com/2005/08/bug-count-vs-test-coverage.html

Ch-ch-ch-changes... I thought this was old news but the parallax effect of July CTP users trickling in makes me think this may be something you are wondering about. This is just a note to the VSTS power users on CTP bits, if that's not you, you can disregard...

Multimonitor machine, hosting two virtual PC's with one virtual PC multi-monitored into the other virtual PC. Don't say I'm not looking out for you. These are stories the mainstream media absolutely refuse to carry! http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy...

there's a chance to chat directly with the VSTS test team going on right now if you're online http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/08/17/452716.aspx

I got a chuckle out of this quote today: "In the world of software, Web designers are called programmers. Programmers are called engineers. Engineers are called architects. And architects never get called!" - Alan Cooper

Security researchers have all the fun. This paper describes how the Strider HoneyMonkey Exploit Detection system uses active client honeypots (AKA "honey monkeys") to find web sites that exploit browser vulnerabilities. ftp://ftp.research.microsoft...

An old friend sent me a new testing link by email today, looks like a community site for software testers. For anyone looking to start a software testing blog on the cheap their "free registration, free blog" offer might be worth looking into: http...

There is probably some official page somewhere that defines these terms better. But since I toss them around around all the time, I probably owe it to some readers to explain what they mean. Here goes, from least to greatest: CTP - community technology...

If you want to create new test projects on the July CTP you will need to apply this fix: http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=69609

Give a welcome to John Lyon-Smith who just joined our team by subscribing to his blog! First post - counting bits: http://blogs.msdn.com/johnls/archive/2005/08/09/449655.aspx

ScottGu is looking for help smoothing out any bugs in the ASP.NET 2.0 migration wizard: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/08/07/421827.aspx

James Bach asks us to give up the idea of "Best Practice" ( http://blackbox.cs.fit.edu/blog/james/archives/000187.html ), claims it is something that cheapens our craft, and I find myself agreeing. Maybe software testers can replace the idea of "best...

If you want to run the performance profiler on your managed windows services, this is a must read: http://blogs.msdn.com/angryrichard/articles/Profiling_Windows_Services.aspx