October 2005 - Posts
I've been asked to help out in a support role at the Visual Studio Team System launch events in Mexico City and Monterrey the 15-17th of November. Let me know if you're going to be there so we can meet up! Voy a ir a Mexico City y Monterrey para ayudar
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Here are two useful links for setting up data driven unit tests: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182527.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vstsunittesting.asp
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There are some moments in your life that you always remember. Like where you were when the towers fell on September 11th. I still remember the room I was in on the day that as a 6th grader I learned in awe about Rosa Parks for the first time. A moment
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Team Build Bloggers: http://blogs.msdn.com/nagarajp http://blogs.msdn.com/anutthara http://blogs.msdn.com/manishagarwal http://blogs.msdn.com/hemantk http://blogs.msdn.com/Uday Team Foundation Build Overview http://blogs.msdn.com/team_foundation/archive/2005/03/02/383479.aspx
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I've lost track of how many times Nagaraju has helped me out with team build, I'm so glad he's got a blog. Here's an entry on how to customize get task to synch to a particular source label: http://blogs.msdn.com/nagarajp/archive/2005/10/21.aspx
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In yesterday's tech chat there was a question about when a customer ready VPC for Beta 3 will become available. I just now got the notice that after burning the midnight oil, the work is done, it's just been dropped to an internal share, with the promise
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OK, so I'm a few days behind with this. But if you are one of the elite who have installed TFS Beta 3, please, I beg of you, help make life better for geeks of the future and fill out this survey: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/10/17/481909.asp
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FYI - if you are looking for a cool job I can honestly say I think this is a great team and a great opportunity: ---- http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=9733f51b-f8fa-410b-9d35-43c4e5ac5966 Are you passionate for impacting
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There were two vendors at SecureWorld conference today in Bellevue that might be worth checking out if you are looking for developer/tester related security products. They should also be there tomorrow as well - free registration if you are just walking
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Every year Microsoft has a giving campaign including an auction where individuals and groups around the company donate items to be auctioned with all the proceeds going directly to charity. I couldn't help but spot this one hot auction item currently
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Partners rock and this looks like goodness in the making ... "TestComplete 4 supports both AutomatedQA's AQdevTeam and Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System issue-tracking systems" Test Complete 4 Sneak Peek Also the Test Complete 4 Public Beta is
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Team System MSDN Public Chat Visual Studio Team System for Software Developer & Visual Studio Team System for Software Testers When: Wednesday 10/19/05 @ 10am PST What: Join us to discuss the Profiler, Test Tools (Unit, Generic, Manual), Web &
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We had an "open spaces" session at PNSQC on Tuesday, interesting self-organizing concept, here's the wiki: http://pnsqc-m.org/?q=openspace3
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Disclaimer: This is more of an ugly hack than a tip, and not even the type that would be cool enough to make it into Visual Studio Hacks , but here goes... When you search the MSDN local help it has a nasty behavior of making all your search terms indelibly
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VS 2005 RC build # 50727.26 has an issue related to running tests that causes a nasty "object is an invalid state" error message. If you are hitting this problem, here's some more background information in Q&A format: Question: Trying to run any test,
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"a simple yet little-known approach exists for users to avoid many of these vulnerabilities in any web browser" http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1848
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VSTS Webcast series: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnvsts2005.mspx
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I just found out yesterday that I'm headed to the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference next week with a few others from Visual Studio Team System Developer and Test Tools. Mostly to listen and learn, partly to demo Team System. If everything
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Great post on the delta between B2 and B3 - "I recently saw a post asking for a list of improvements between Beta 2 and Beta 3. It seemed like great fodder for a blog topic so here I go" http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2005/10/01/476030.aspx
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