Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to finish that series I started a few weeks ago. Due to a restructuring and reorganization, my position at Microsoft has been eliminated. In plain English, I’ve been laid off and this was my last day at MSFT. ...

I received a question about the example in my blog on Testing WPF applications with the White UI Test framework . It seems that people are having problems running it. Unfortunately, White has changed since I posted that example. The WPFWindow class...

I’ve been in the software business for a very long time. I’ve seen lots of good and bad practices in that time and would like to share some of my thoughts on them. Mostly, I will talk about practices that affect quality and schedule. To facilitate that...

I received a question through my blog that asked for help with an NUnitForms exception. I'm sorry to say that I no longer recommend NUnitForms as a test tool. I was using it 3 years ago but there has not been much activity in that community since then...

I received a question through my blog. The question was about “a GroupBox which lists some errors. The count of these Errors(ListItems) vary. How can I count the no. of Rows in GroupBox?” Technically, a GroupBox contains only 1 item defined by its...

Hey! If you are new to testing WPF applications or to testing in general, the WPF team has just released a new version of their quality guide. It has a lot of useful information and resource links related to testing in general and testing of GUI applications...

For the past few weeks, I have been test driving the White UI Test framework . It is an open source extension for the NUnit test framework. There are already blog tutorials on using the White UI Test framework with WinForms (see Ben Hall's blog ) so I...

Our team recently began work on a new project and we're using WPF. Since we want to make our projects accessible to people who are not using VS Test Suite, we use NUnit. The immediate problem we ran into was that NUnit could not run the tests. It threw...

Have you ever applied another team member’s TFS shelveset and later wanted to compare one of the changed files to another version? Have you ever wanted to review exactly what you changed in a file you modified? Since each file in a shelveset will also...

When our team started using the TFS code repository features, we began using shelvesets to bundle changed files together for code reviews. Other team members can retrieve your shelvesets and apply the changes. The problem was that we often wanted to see...

Have you ever posted on any of the MSDN forums? Did you think the editor was adequate? If not, I have some good news for you. Our team was recently asked to write an improved rich text editor for MSDN forums posts. It will support IE and Firefox browsers...

Our team recently released V1.0 of our Power Toys Pack Installer tool which allows you to easily select a tool or set of tools for download and installation. The V1.0 release includes the functional spec and the test plan for the project. The new features...

The beta version of our Resource Refactoring Tool has been on CodePlex for a while now but we’re releasing the 1.0 version today. The Resource Refactoring Tool is used to convert string literals into references to entries in a string resource file. ...

My MSDN article "Reviewing Managed Code" was published earlier this month. Last Friday, I learned that it will be translated into several other languages. When I find out which languages and when the translations will be published, I will add comments...

As I said in my earlier post , our corporate team develops tools that we want to turn into Community Based Open Source projects. The projects are developed as closed source. Occasionally, the requirements were open and discussed with community members...

Anyone who has read my bio or knows me personally knows that open source is not a new thing for me. For about 25 years, I worked in the proprietary UNIX, FreeBSD, and Linux world. We were using open source software before it was called open source. If...

Recently, I blogged about using NUnit and NUnitForms to test VS 2005 Windows Forms applications. I pointed you all at the NUnitForms website and promised to post more about getting started with NUnitForms. After installing NUnitForms, you can use...

It’s been an interesting month. Because our team is involved in so many different areas, we are always learning something new! Two developments in the testing area are that one of our developers figured out how to write unit tests for Add-In tools and...

One of the Aftermarket Developer Solutions team goals is to create communities around shared source tools for VS developers. Of course, we are a small team and can't provide full featured tools and support them for long periods of time.That's where the...