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What's new in the TFS Release Candidate?

Check out this post from Jeff Beehler for all the details. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 10:25 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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Reaching out, Toshiba Tecra M4 Mouse Lag

I received my Toshiba Tecra M4 around 7 months ago. Like any, there are pro's and con's; overall not a bad machine. One thing that just drives me crazy it's the random mouse lag. Does anyone know a fix for this? If so, please comment! Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:16 PM by csell | 2 Comments
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Simple NMock Working Sample

Based on some conversations I had today, here is a simple NMock example. NMockExample.zip (17.19 KB) Read More...
Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 8:17 PM by csell | 1 Comments
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Testing Code Snippets

Code Snippets just rock. I thought I would post my testing code snippets. CSTestSnippets.zip (2.2 KB) VBTestSnippets.zip (2.13 KB) Just add them to the appropriate place under "My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Code Snippets\" Read More...
Posted Monday, January 23, 2006 3:26 PM by csell | 0 Comments
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Converting a csproj into a test csproj

Short answer. It's as simple as adding one line to your csproj which in turn tells the IDE to treat that project like a test project. Add the following line to your main PropertyGroup: <ProjectGuid>{04082EBA-C85C-4336-B3FD-9891096BAA0F}</ProjectGuid> Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:36 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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VSTS User Education Team Blog

Rob Caron has relaunched the VSTS User Education Team Blog . If you are working with TFS then you need this on your blogroll. Be sure to check out the following three posts: VSTS Backup and Restore Procedures Team Foundation Server Permissions Team Foundation Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 21, 2006 7:01 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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TFS Release Candidate is Coming

Start getting ready, TFS RC is on it's way. Thank you Jeff for the heads up! Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 7:19 PM by csell | 0 Comments
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Unit Testing with Anonymous Methods

Mark Seemann recently published a great post demonstrating the use of anonymous methods in unit testing events. Testing Events Using Anonymous Methods That just rocks, thanks Mark! Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 7:14 PM by csell | 0 Comments
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VS 2002 / 2003 / 2005 Conversions and Building

The following are some different resources to either convert your Visual Studio 2002/2003 projects to Visual Studio 2005 or just target the 1.1 framework in Visual Studio 2005. Step-By-Step Guide to Converting Web Projects from Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003 Read More...
Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 7:19 PM by csell | 0 Comments
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Configuration Management in .NET 2.0

Paulo Reichert posted a GREAT walkthrough / sample using the new Configuration Management features of .Net 2.0 . Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 18, 2006 6:51 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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Multiple Test Runs in one BuildType

If you are using TeamBuild then this post is for you. In TeamExplorer when you create a new build type it will create a *.proj file. During the creation of this build type, you will be asked which TestLists you would like executed in that build type. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:51 PM by csell | 0 Comments
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ExpectedException Exception Message Validation

While you cannot validate you exception's message in the ExpectedException attribute all is not lost. Lets walk through three scenarios. In all three tests you will see an Assert.Fail in the try block. You need this statement in case the target doesn't Read More...
Posted Monday, January 16, 2006 9:27 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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http://blogs.msdn.com/csell

It was finally time to join the long list of fellow Microsoft bloggers. You will now find a subset of http://csell.net content @ http://blogs.msdn.com/csell . Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:50 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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Virtual PC's Differencing Disks

I love Virtual PC, and I use if for all of my development. I have a ton of VPC's just sucking up MAJOR disk space. I ran across and article from Andrew Connell , HOWTO: Use Virtual PC's Differencing Disks to your Advantage . I wish I would have known Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 11:35 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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ExpectedException might not be what you've expected

If you've switched from NUnit to the VSTS Unit Testing then I am pretty sure you've used the ExpectedException attribute. If you haven't it looks something like this: [ExpectedException( typeof ( ApplicationException ), "Message" )] Using it with a test Read More...
Posted Friday, January 13, 2006 11:34 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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Convert Your Code to HTML

Nice little web utility to convert your code into HTML http://puzzleware.net/codeHTMLer/ Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:13 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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VSTS on VSTS on Channel 9

A few of my VSTS comrades discuss VSTS http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=139114 Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:13 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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System.Diagnostics Tracing and DebugView

The other day I ran across DebugView by Sysinternals . After playing with it for a few I suddenly had a re-found love for System.Diagnostics . “DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:13 AM by csell | 0 Comments
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MSTest.exe

Stumbled across a command line tool ( MSTest ) which executes your VSTS test list. You can call if from a Visual Studio command prompt or @ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE Upon execution this will create the same output as if you Read More...
Posted Saturday, January 14, 2006 9:12 AM by csell | 1 Comments
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