Shozub's Blog - WPF and Datahttp://blogs.msdn.com/shozub/atom.xmlCommunity Server2008-09-05T20:45:00ZVideos on Testing Techniqueshttp://blogs.msdn.com/shozub/archive/2008/09/06/videos-on-testing-techniques.aspx2008-09-07T00:20:00Z2008-09-07T00:20:00Z<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Last month a few of my WPF teammates and I were featured on <A href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/testing/default.aspx" mce_href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/testing/default.aspx"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Microsoft Tester Center</SPAN></A>. We talked about different approaches that we use in testing WPF.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/Testing-Windows-Presentation-Foundation-Controls-WPF/" mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/Testing-Windows-Presentation-Foundation-Controls-WPF/"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">My video</SPAN></A> consists of a high-level overview of how to test WPF controls. To find out more about testing WPF applications, you should consult the <A href="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpf-app-quality-guide.aspx" mce_href="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpf-app-quality-guide.aspx"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Application Quality Guide</SPAN></A> (the WPF team is still working on this).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The other videos featured Peter Antal, who talks about <A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/Graphics-Visual-Verification-with-WPF/" mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/Graphics-Visual-Verification-with-WPF/"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">visual verification</SPAN></A>, and Matt Galbraith, who discusses <A href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/Testing-WPF-Web-Applications-by-Matt-Galbraith/" mce_href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/Testing-WPF-Web-Applications-by-Matt-Galbraith/"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">testing WPF Browser hosted apps</SPAN></A>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">My post on paginating data is coming soon, in the meanwhile I hope you enjoy these!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8928825" width="1" height="1">shozubhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/shozub.aspxGoalshttp://blogs.msdn.com/shozub/archive/2008/09/05/first-post.aspx2008-09-05T22:45:00Z2008-09-05T22:45:00Z<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Hello All! <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I am a member of the WPF team. Currently I own testing for the DataBinding feature.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Here’s why I have this blog </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri">-</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Walk through nifty tricks you can use in WPF<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I plan to</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri">-</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Keep my posts succinct, easy to read and well-organized </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings"><SPAN style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings">J</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri">-</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri"> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Post on a regular schedule (don’t know what that is yet)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If you have suggestions/ideas for blog posts please let me know in the comments section. I plan to talk about simple ways to paginate displayed data in the near future...</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8926831" width="1" height="1">shozubhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/shozub.aspx