Just Coding : DevTools

Great ALM Icons

rido — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:20:31 GMT

TMap for Visual Studio 2010 [ http://tmap.codeplex.com/ ] is a testing focused process guidance, looks great !! ..and it has a nice icon set to illustrate the software lifecycle like the development and test ones...(read more)

Moles

rido — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:37:00 GMT

I’ve been interesting in unit testing for some years now. One major aspect of unit testing is about how use designs that allows a separation of concerns so you can test your program as units (usually at class level), for this the interface basic programming...(read more)

A Beta Week (VS2010)

rido — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:03:00 GMT

This week I’ve spent some time to update my new laptop (a LenovoT61p) and to install some fresh bits. Right now I’m running: Windows 7 Enterprise x64 Office 2010 Beta Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 Also I have one VPC running Windows Server 2008 x86 SQL Server...(read more)

RidoCode

rido — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:03:00 GMT

Since gotdotnet is phased out, I'm moving all my samples to codeplex ( http://www.codeplex.com/ridocode ), including the famous FileRollerTraceListener...(read more)

trx2html @ CodePlex

rido — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 02:06:00 GMT

I have moved the trx2html project to CodePlex http://www.codeplex.com/trx2html I'm looking for members and collaborators !!...(read more)

TestResults Reports in TFS Builds

rido — Thu, 24 May 2007 21:54:00 GMT

If you use TFSBuilds with VS UnitTests, you know how to inspect the TestResults: you must download the whole directory to your local machine, and sometimes this folder could be pretty huge. So, if you want to check the error details of your tests, you...(read more)

Testing with VS2005 Demo

rido — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:12:00 GMT

Today's workshop was based on a demo to show all the vs features about testing, it covers: Unit Tests (With MockObjects) Integration Tests (Using ASP.Net Host) Functional Tests (With Web Tests) Load Tests (With testcontrollers and test agents) I've packed...(read more)

My lastest desktop

rido — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:14:52 GMT

Today I have switched to Vista RC2. After reinstalling the OS I have to install all the tools I use everyday. Here is the list Office Beta2 OneNote 2007 Project 2007 SQL2005 SP2 (Beta) Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Enterprise Library Composite UI Application...(read more)

TFS: Change Connected user

rido — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:19:03 GMT

When you setup TFS for the first time, usually you use the TFSSetup account. And with this account you are going to login for the first time. However, once your environment is complete, you will want to login as a different user, but the credentials you...(read more)

VSTS LoadTesting 64bit WebServer

rido — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:18:27 GMT

Last week I had to stress a web portal running on x64 machine. Everything works as spected but when I tried to analyze ASP.Net counters I found there was little problem, every ASP.Net related counter was empty, I mean with no values. And this is because...(read more)

Load Test and Perf Counters

rido — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:39:00 GMT

The first time I saw the Load Tests in action I got impressed: you can watch the performance counters in the same graph as the stats of your tests !! However when I tried to use it in a real production environment I discover you can not stablish a direct...(read more)

ploeh blog : Cleaning Away The TestResults Folder

rido — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:09:00 GMT

Link to ploeh blog : Cleaning Away The TestResults Folder...(read more)

Using Code Coverage with Manual Testing

rido — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:46:00 GMT

http://blogs.msdn.com/marcalt/archive/2006/07/02/654157.aspx A good thing to remember about CodeCoverage in VSTS... however I wonder how to evaluate this metric because "manual testing" is slow... I don't think you could reach more than 20% CC with manual...(read more)

Hirlpoo West : Cool Notepad Trick

rido — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:22:16 GMT

Another great trick of our old friend notepad.exe Link to Hirlpoo West : Cool Notepad Trick...(read more)

My fav WinShell Trick

rido — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:43:00 GMT

Good tools are forever.

One of my favs is the old "Command Prompt Here" power toy.

If you want to open a cmd (with vs8 env vars set) from a folder in Windows Explorer, copy this text into a .reg file, and execute it !!

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell\DosHere\command]
@="c:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\cmd.exe /k \"\"c:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\Common7\\Tools\\vsvars32.bat\" \"cd %1\"\""