Anith Gopal

Haikus from Jane on her 39th birthday: Practice makes perfect is what they say about things, but sometimes it’s not. In this case it is not practice but refinement, and then more testing

It seems I am still learning the wonders of blogs.  I have finally posted this but it seems to be lost in the plethora of the others blogs posted since then. http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/09/04/extending-the-visual-studio-unit-test-type-part-2.aspx Thanks Bruce Taimana Program Manager Visual Studio Test Team

  I posted this topic outlining the cube schema changes we made in Beta 2. We had made it a point not to make any breaking schema changes in our cube schema once Beta 2 shipped and we stuck to that goal for RC.

In my previous post about keyboard shortcuts , I promised a summary of the hostable editor shortcuts. I waited on purpose until after the RC build to make this post. There were a couple of reasons for holding off: we changed the way WF designer shortcuts were scoped, and a bunch of shortcuts were broken in beta 2 and fixed in RC.

As most of you are already aware, we released RC version of Visual Studio 2010 recently. For those who are not aware, you can download it from this location . I would like to discuss a few changes that we have done in Test Runner post Beta 2

  I started this series with a set of topics and broke the first one down into sub topics to cover the out-of-the-box experience in detail. With my last post , I covered the dashboards portion of the experience. Let’s look at the new SQL Reporting Services (SSRS/RS) reports written in Report Definition Language (RDL)

There is an issue where 2005/2008 clients connecting to a TFS 2010 RC server, with team projects created by RC versions of MSF Agile / CMMI process templates will encounter an error when resolving bugs. But there is a work around! Read the rest of Gregg Boer’s article… >…( read more )

A refresh of the POCO Template that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate is now available in the Extension Manager of Visual Studio and through Visual Studio Gallery. For an introduction on how to use the template, please see the POCO Template Walkthrough (no updates have been made to the walkthrough for this version). The RC compatible version of the POCO Template contains all the improvements made in the Beta 2 compatible version, including generated code improvements, relationship fixup, foreign keys, etc

Руководство содержит собственные методики компании Microsoft, собранные на основе многолетней успешной работы над продуктами Microsoft и общения с заказчиками. Эти материалы будут интересны и полезны не только архитекторам, но и разработчикам

Brian Harry – Microsoft Technical Fellow und „Vater“ des Team Foundation Server – hat in seinem Blog neueste Ergebnisse zu den Performanceverbesserungen von Visual Studio 2010 seit Beta 2 veröffentlicht . Und die Nachrichten sind gut, genauer gesagt sogar sehr gut: Die Performance von Visual Studio 2010 wurde seit Beta 2 drastisch verbessert und es scheint als seien alle größeren Probleme und Schwachstellen ausgemerzt worden und Visual Studio 2010 ist nahezu „ready to ship“ .

If you have a Silverlight project under source control, and try to build it on a 64-bit Team Build (or similar) server, you may encounter the following error: After checking the immediately obvious (i.e. is the SDK installed), you might wonder why this is happening.  It has to do with the build running under 64-bit MSBuild.  The Silverlight build tasks determine which versions of the framework are installed by reading from the registry.  This key in 32-bit Windows is under HKLMSoftwareMicrosoft….  On a 64-bit system, however, it’s under HKLMSoftware Wow6432Node Microsoft…, and the build tasks fail to find the values they’re looking for. To work around this issue, you need to set your project to build under the x86 toolset.  To do that in TFS, you need to edit your build configuration to build for the x86 platform: We do not have a fix for this at this time, but we are tracking the issue for an upcoming release.

I recently added a post of beta 2 availability for Test Scribe, a tool that myself and Ryan Vogrinec (a fellow engineer) have been working on for the past couple months of off-hours.  It was an interesting project, and made significant use of T4 (the Text Transformation and Templating engine that ships with VS) and the OpenXML toolkit to transform TFS and TCM artifacts into a Word 2007 document (bonus: generation of embedded Excel charts too!) You can read more about the tool at http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2010/01/11/test-scribe-test-plan-documentation-for-mtlm-plans.aspx , as well as get the link to the Visual Studio Gallery (our download site). Joe