Introduction: It all started from a break in A few weeks ago, an intruder broke into my house. My neighborhood was known for no break-ins in the past 11 years. No neighbors had break-ins since the community was built. I did not activate the home alarm...

I started experiencing Android development with Eclipse and my Samsung Galaxy s 4G I rooted and unlocked. It was the nicest mobile computing unit I’ve ever bought. I thought why not write a mobile app for my phone? That’s how I started. ...

My roommate Long Tran gave me a coding problem he found on the Internet this afternoon. I first did not think it was actually a coding problem but a puzzle. He gave me 2 samples of integer arrays: 5,5,10,2,3 and 1,2,3,4,5. The goal is finding the number...

The internal code coverage tool I was talking about in my previous post has been shipped with Visual Studio 2010. The full path to it is \Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Team Tools\Performance Tools\x64 for the 64 bit code coverage. 1...

In the other blog about UI automation, I forgot to mention how to add the reference and should have included the solution. The assembly to reference is called UIAutomationClient in Visual Studio 2010. Use this MSDN article and James McCaffrey's blog to...

Load Code Coverage Data to SQL database Use Visual Studio’s code coverage tools to obtain the .coverage file Visual Studio has a set of tools that can collect your code coverage data. The data structure of the collected code coverage data is in...

Often times, when a developer builds a C# library, there is always a need for unit testing it. If your company already has strictly guidelines on how to enforce unit testing before any code is checked in, you might want to read the policy procedure about...

There are situations where you don’t want user to click on a button twice too fast or on a checkbox when the server is still processing. One quick trick is to use “ this .Button1.Attributes.Add( "onclick" , "this.disabled=true;" ); ” to disable the button...

I mentioned developing an ASP.NET website in the first blog . ASP.NET is a sophisticated architecture that often confuses developers, especially which event fires first could be difficult to expect. You should understand ASP.NET Page Life Cycle before...

It has always been difficult to solve UI automation problems. There are many UI automation frameworks not only on the Internet but also internal at Microsoft. Choosing the right one that best fits your need could be difficult. Finally, there is an ultimate...

The code coverage tools in Visual Studio have existed since 2005 in the Team Developer and Tester Tools -> Code Analysis Tools in Visual Studio Team System 2008 installation. However, there have not been enough articles about how to use them on Windows...

Since Windows Server 2000, VB script has been the primary language for doing system administration work. The philosophy and design were to provide more scripting features than the .bat or .cmd batching programming. As .NET evolves, developers build sophisticated...

I have been developing and maintaining an internal website at Microsoft IT which monitors the status of multiple master data management systems for almost 1 year. At the beginning of the development phase, I decided to use ADO.NET for querying and updating...