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Visual Studio Team System Process Templates

A team project is simply a bucket that stores and partitions all of the artifacts you track and use within a Team Foundation Server (TFS) project. In the December 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Brian A. Randell explains how you can use and customize the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:32 PM by tdorsey | 1 Comments

Team System: Team Build 2008 Basics

Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Build (better known as Team Build) is a core feature of Team Foundation Server 2008. Microsoft designed Team Build to be an industrial-strength build automation tool. In the November 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 3:37 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Parallel Programming with Visual Studio

Multicore systems are becoming increasingly prevalent, but the majority of software today will not automatically take advantage of this additional processing ability. And multithreaded programming, for anything but the most trivial of systems, is incredibly Read More...
Posted Monday, October 06, 2008 12:34 PM by tdorsey | 0 Comments

Team System: Essential Power Tools

Microsoft has a long history of introducing new features to shipped products, often under the banner of Power Toys or Power Tools. In the August 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Brian Randell takes you on a tour of some useful tools for Visual Studio Team Read More...
Posted Monday, August 18, 2008 7:00 AM by tdorsey | 0 Comments
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Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack

Although the Visual C++ compiler has been improved in a areas including performance, security, and standards conformance, seemingly little has been done in the way of new library and productivity features for quite some time. That has changed with the Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Find Application Bottlenecks with Visual Studio Profiler

Whether you write your applications in native C/C++, C#, or Visual Basic, Visual Studio Profiler significantly simplifies performance investigations and helps you write faster and more efficient applications. In the March 2008 issue of MSDN Magazine , Read More...
Posted Monday, April 07, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments

Redefine Your Build Process with Continuous Integration

A growing number of development shops are adopting Continuous Integration (CI) as a best practice, and many more would get on the wagon if the cost of adoption was lower. It can take a veteran programmer a couple of days to get a basic CI server up and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 02, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Test Run: Custom Test Automation with Team System

Custom test automation scripts have the advantages of being quick to write and providing maximum flexibility. However, a downside to using custom test automation is manageability. Your testing effort can become overwhelmed by the sheer volume of test Read More...
Posted Monday, March 10, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments

Office Business Apps with Visual Studio 2008 and VSTO 3.0

Visual Studio 2008 includes VSTO 3.0, which lets you begin solution development for both Office 2003 applications and the 2007 Microsoft Office system, such as developing Microsoft Outlook customizations. In the Launch issue of MSDN Magazine , Steve Fox Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 05, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Team System: Team Foundation Server (TFS) check-in notes and policies

In the past editions of our Team System column, Brian A. Randell has used the Team Foundation Server (TFS) version control and work item tracking APIs to build a Microsoft Word 2003 add-in that provides support for check-ins and work item association Read More...
Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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What's New for WCF in Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 and the underlying .NET Framework 3.5 offer new tools and support for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), extending the functionality and making WCF easier to use in your own applications. In the February issue of MSDN Magazine Read More...
Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Test Run: The Microsoft UI Automation Library

There are several techniques you can use to test the user interface of a Windows application such as the System.Reflection classes or Win32 API functions such as FindWindow. But the development of the UI Automation library may be one of the most important Read More...
Posted Friday, February 01, 2008 11:05 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments

A Custom Expression Encoder Publishing Plug-In

Microsoft Expression Encoder helps you encode and publish Silverlight experiences for the web. In addition, Expression Encoder includes an extensible plug-in architecture -- you can easily write plug-ins that enhance the encoding and publishing process. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:13 AM by MSDNMagazine | 1 Comments

Custom check-in policies for Visual Studio Team System

In the past three editions of our Team System column, Brian A. Randell explored the Team Foundation Server (TFS) version control and work item tracking APIs. Brian used the APIs to build a Microsoft Word 2003 add-in that provides support for check-ins Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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Creating a Custom Fuzz Test Interface Provider

These days, fuzzing is most frequently used to validate file and network parsers - literally piping a random source of binary data into the parser and then seeing what happens. In the November issue of MSDN Magazine, Dan Griffin takes a look at the extensibility Read More...
Posted Monday, October 29, 2007 7:00 AM by MSDNMagazine | 0 Comments
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