Visual Studio Lab Management team blog

Note: Cross posted from Nothing geeky... . Permalink One of the common requirement while running E2E build is to log a bug automatically when the test run fails. It is very simple to achieve this functionality by customizing the workflow. Lets...

Note: Cross posted from aseemb's blog . Permalink Overview Lab Service account is newly introduced in Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC release and is briefly discussed here and here . It greatly simplifies the account management of core components...

Upgrading TFS and Lab Management from Beta2 to RC requires a few steps. After working with several customers, we saw that a checklist of all the tasks can be helpful. So we created a checklist of all the general tasks required, and also created a tool...

In the last post, we created the “system under test” and ensured that the TCM server has information on how to run these tests in a test environment. This post explains how to get the tests run automatically as part of a scheduled build / deploy / test...

Configuring the “system under test” in VS The system under test for the purpose of this walkthrough is a simple calculator web service with its unit tests. Start by creating a new team project in VS. Connect to the TFS server and create a team project...

Configure the TFS VM: In our setup, we will configure TFS server, the build controller, build agent to do the build process, test controller which will manage test execution and also as the dev box where we will write the code. This can be a VM in the...

We had a previous walkthro that shows lab management in action with VS2010 Beta2. This walk thru is an update of the same walkthru but using the RC bits. Between Beta2 and RC, the lab management product has had a lot of improvements , especially in the...

[UPDATE (7/1/10) ] This VHD expires on 30th June 2010 , click here for the updated version. Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 enables teams to accelerate setup/tear down and restoration of complex virtual environments to a known state for test execution...

UPDATE (27 Oct 2010): All videos are now updated with a narration, and uploaded as part of MSDN ‘How Do I’ video series for online viewing. The table below is updated with the new links. Based on popular demand, here are the videos of the different scenarios...

We are happy to announce the availability of an updated version of VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC. You can download it from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vslabmgmt To enable testing, build-deploy-test workflow and network isolation...

We have found that in some cases the registration of an upgraded build agents fails, with the following error: Error occurred while configuring TFSBuildServiceHost with Lab configuration. ExceptionType: MicrosoftTeamFoundation.Build.ClientBuildServiceHostAlreadyExistsException...

Hello, I am Dinesh Bhat, test manager for the team that builds Visual Studio Lab Management product.  In his blog on dogfooding Visual Studio 2010 Test and Lab Management products , Amit Chatterjee talked about the team structure and how the product...

As mentioned in Somasegar's blog and Jason Zander's blog , the much anticipated Release Candidate (RC) for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 was released to all MSDN subscribers on Feb 8th and it will be available for public download on Feb 10th...

TFS 2010 Release Candidate (RC) will be released later this month, and Lab Management will be included with it. We want to give you some time to get prepared for it, and we are releasing the Lab Management 2010 Beta2 to Release Candidate Upgrade Guide...

If you plan to setup Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC on a self-contained isolated machine (e.g., laptop that you want to carry around), then you have to perform an additional step to configure network location as described below. Configuration of...