This really belongs in the comments field of my last blog post, but it turned out I had more thoughts to vent and this would make a monster of a comment, so here goes: What more could there be to dynamic analysis than code coverage and profiling? Probably...

2>&1 is how you redirect stderr to stdout on the command line in windows, when I inevitably have to do this again sometime, maybe this will help me remember. :) [ XP redirection docs , technet docs ]

At the time of this writing, Beta 2 is not yet legally available on the outside AFAIK, so I hope I'm not jumping the gun here - but the more eyeballs and user feedback you can help us get, the better. So consider this a work in progress that will get...

If you're looking for MSDN documentation on the Visual Studio 2005 Profiler, here's the main starting point: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/z9z62c29(VS.80).aspx I just realized this page doesn't actually have the word "profiler" anywhere...

In yesterday's tech chat there was a question about when a customer ready VPC for Beta 3 will become available. I just now got the notice that after burning the midnight oil, the work is done, it's just been dropped to an internal share, with the promise...

I know, I know, this is the canonical starting point topic everyone has already covered with the Whidbey profiler. I just needed something easy to psyche myself up before launching off into the more technical issues we've come across while working on...

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...

ASP.NET profiling in Beta 2 from within the IDE opens up an IE browser window as if you were going to generate load that way. That's fine if the web page triggers a web service or some internal function that you are targeting, where one simple button...

Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Check out this support wiki for running Windows as nonadmin: http://nonadmin.editme.com

I maintain a script in our test harness that autodetects and reports back the OS version of the machine under test. I couldn't tell if I was running XP SP1 or XP SP2 - so I had a kludge that used spcheck from the reskit. But the real problem was that...

OK, so this is for all those people using beta builds out there. There is a client side cache involved with connecting to remote TFS application tier machines. Unfortunately it can be somewhat buggy in the beta builds, leaving you with an error message...

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

Here's some code for reading through a StreamReader one line at a time until EOF (where line is a string and sr is a StreamReader): while (( line = sr.ReadLine()) != null ) { //your code here }

FYI - some rootkit defense information New and Improved Rootkit Revealer (Sysinternals) Rootkit Revealer vs. Hacker Defender... (Robert Hensing's blog) Rootkit Detection Treasure Trove (Wilders) Strider Ghostbuster Rootkit Detection (Microsoft Research...

Update: MSDN documentation here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms181247(en-us,vs.80).aspx "Your mileage may vary" on this tip - in fact I can practically guarantee it won't work for you if you are still on Beta 2 like you probably are. But for...

(Update: Skip straight to a great answer to this question by Travis Owens ) I just got an email from a Microsoft customer (who will remain nameless) who is trying to improve their company's intranet. They wanted me to give them some insight into Microsoft...

Code coverage coloring used to be green, blue, and red. In recent builds I suddently noticed it's more of a blue/purple/red type of color scheme. This is hearsay, it may or may not have any grounding in fact. But I overheard in the hallway the other day...

Interesting article up on Code Project: "The principal advantage is that, the user can still register and use the COM server even if he is not an administrator of the machine or does not have write access to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE . " http://www.codeproject...

When you first start the IDE, it asks you to select a user profile via a dialogue. I usually find myself gravitating towards "C#" or "General" profile, but sometimes I pick a different profile and don't quite find what I'm looking for because the profiles...

Q: What's the difference between code profiling and dynamic code analysis? A: Dynamic Code Analysis is a category of analysis features, code profiling is a specific feature in that category. Code coverage (which uses the same engine as the profiler...

Partners rock and this looks like goodness in the making ... "TestComplete 4 supports both AutomatedQA's AQdevTeam and Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System issue-tracking systems" Test Complete 4 Sneak Peek Also the Test Complete 4 Public Beta...

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...

Team Build Bloggers: http://blogs.msdn.com/nagarajp http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal http://blogs.msdn.com/hemantk http://blogs.msdn.com/Uday Team Foundation Build Overview http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/archive...

Here is what I hope might be a constructive response to Brian Marick's thoughts in his post on Exploration Through Example about fine-grained guidance in exploratory testing. One heuristic that I've had some success with is a bit more on the lines...

MSPress offered me a free copy of their book Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services a few months ago if I would review it on my blog. I figured I could use the book, and were no rules, deadlines, etc. I don't really consider myself a sell-out since Microsoft...