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Avoiding MAX_PATH issues with TFS

I was discussing with a customer the other day around the posibility of hitting the maximum path limit in TFS. Great to see just days after the conversation a sample from James Pickell showing a Check-In policy to avoid this. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 17, 2008 2:57 PM by colinbeales | 0 Comments
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Debugging Pages Under A Load Test

Sean Lumley has written an excellent blog article detailing how to debug pages that fail under load: http://blogs.msdn.com/slumley/pages/debugging-errors-in-load-test.aspx We have this requirement quite a bit in our performance and scale lab sessions Read More...
Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 5:03 PM by colinbeales | 0 Comments
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Stop connecting to TFS automatically on Visual Studio 2005 startup

I'm always forgetting this one and people often ask me for it so I'm popping up here in the hope I'll find it easier next time. It's an old problem where Visual Studio 2005 goes looking to connect automatically to TFS when you change between TFS servers Read More...
Posted Friday, November 02, 2007 7:07 PM by colinbeales | 3 Comments
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Changing the distribution of think time in loadtests

I had a colleagues customer ask today if it were possible to change the distribution for think time in load tests. It turns out it is, but unfortunatly not through the UI. The .loadtest generated by the UI is simply XML and each scenario you have within Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007 10:32 AM by colinbeales | 1 Comments
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String Concatenation in WebTests

I was asked by a colleague today how to perform string concatenation in a web test for a query string they were wanting to be built up of some content from the data context and a hardcoded value. They wanted to do this without resorting to code in a plugin. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:07 PM by colinbeales | 2 Comments
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Changing TFS Emails to link to Web Access Work Items

Just came across this on Neno Loje's Blog which is sooooooo cool. How cool is it to have access to the web access stuff direct from notification emails...Awesome!! http://msmvps.com/blogs/vstsblog/archive/2007/08/31/changing-tfs-email-notifications-to-link-to-team-system-web-access.asp Read More...
Posted Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:03 PM by colinbeales | 1 Comments
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Analyzing VSTS 2005 Load Testing Results With Orcas

Just a quick note as I couldn't find it anywhere during a quick search during my lab. I wanted to see if the Load Test results recorded from the 2005 edition of Visual Studio Team System would be viewable in Orcas. Thankfully I happy to say as of Beta2 Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:01 AM by colinbeales | 1 Comments

Exporting VSTS Load Test results to a new database

One of the activities I get involved in with customers as an ADC is to work with customers in our performance and scalability labs at our UK headquarters in Reading. These labs involve a customer bringing their solution to our facility and building up Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 12:00 AM by colinbeales | 4 Comments
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This is me...

For sometime now I have been threatening to start writing a blog, finally it would seem if this makes it online then I've done it. The truth is that I'm really not sure whether I'm going to get blog fever or if this will become one of those never to be Read More...
Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 11:57 PM by colinbeales | 3 Comments
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