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May 2007 - Posts

All Orcas Beta1 downloads now available

Our good pal Jeff Beehler wrote a good post announcing Beta1 downloads being available. Want to see what we've been working on for the last year? Try out the Beta! We want your comments and bugs so the final release is something you'll be very happy with.

Known-Issues and workarounds for Orcas (Beta1): Device Projects

Issue #1 : Visual Studio cannot generate unit tests when both devices and desktop projects exist in the same solution Workaround Do not add both types of projects to the same solution. We know that this is not the best workaround, but please be patient,

Known-Issues and workarounds for Orcas (Beta1): Inheritance

Issue #1: Inheritance of Test Classes is not supported when the base class is in a different assembly Workaround Place all the classes which will use inheritance in the same test project so that they end up in the same assembly. Issue #2: No inheritance

Update to "How to run tests in a build without test metadata files and test lists (.vsmdi files)": Test Categories

Our good friend Buck Hodges (TFS TeamBuild) has worked with some internal enthusiasts to produce a great power tool to enable more ways of selecting tests to run with a build. You can read about it on his blog here . Cheers, David
 
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