John D'Addamio's blog

So long and good luck!

Unfortunately, I’m not going to be able to finish that series I started a few weeks ago. Due to a...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 07/02/2009

Update to Testing WPF applications with the White UI Test framework

I received a question about the example in my blog on Testing WPF applications with the White UI...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 06/18/2009

Stages of the software development cycle

I’ve been in the software business for a very long time. I’ve seen lots of good and bad practices in...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 05/07/2009

What to do about NUnitForms exceptions?

I received a question through my blog that asked for help with an NUnitForms exception. I'm sorry to...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 04/17/2009

How many items are there in a WPF ListBox?

I received a question through my blog. The question was about “a GroupBox which lists some errors....

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 08/29/2008

Testing resources from the WPF team

Hey!If you are new to testing WPF applications or to testing in general, the WPF team has just...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 05/09/2008

Testing WPF applications with the White UI Test framework

For the past few weeks, I have been test driving the White UI Test framework. It is an open source...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 04/03/2008

Running WPF tests under NUnit

Our team recently began work on a new project and we're using WPF. Since we want to make our...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 01/25/2008

Comparing checked out files with other Team Foundation Server versions

Have you ever applied another team member’s TFS shelveset and later wanted to compare one of the...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 06/15/2007

Code reviews before applying a Team Foundation Server shelveset

When our team started using the TFS code repository features, we began using shelvesets to bundle...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 06/15/2007

Forthcoming new editor for MSDN forums posts

Have you ever posted on any of the MSDN forums? Did you think the editor was adequate? If not, I...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 03/22/2007

Pack Installer V1.0

Our team recently released V1.0 of our Power Toys Pack Installer tool which allows you to easily...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 03/22/2007

Extracting string literals into resource files

The beta version of our Resource Refactoring Tool has been on CodePlex for a while now but we’re...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 02/13/2007

Reviewing Managed Code

My MSDN article "Reviewing Managed Code" was published earlier this month. Last Friday, I learned...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 02/12/2007

Recommendations for corporate teams developing Community Based Open Source projects

As I said in my earlier post, our corporate team develops tools that we want to turn into Community...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 02/09/2007

What’s different about testing open source projects?

Anyone who has read my bio or knows me personally knows that open source is not a new thing for me....

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 02/09/2007

Getting started with NunitForms

Recently, I blogged about using NUnit and NUnitForms to test VS 2005 Windows Forms applications. I...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 11/06/2006

Testing WinForms Apps (the easy way!)

It’s been an interesting month. Because our team is involved in so many different areas, we are...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 10/20/2006

Power Toys and code coverage

One of the Aftermarket Developer Solutions team goals is to create communities around shared source...

Author: John D'Addamio Date: 08/21/2006