Dev Blogs
Richard's new book 'Visual Studio 2012 Cookbook' is now available. It's a great broad overview of the new capabilities in VS 2012 and is a good way for an existing VS user to get up to speed on all the new stuff. Read more about it on Richard's blog post:http://www.richard-banks.org/2012/09/visual-studio-2012-cookbook-is-now.html
Brian Keller just recently released a new VS/TFS 2012 VM and hands on lab. It’s a handy way to kick the tires and check things out. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2011/09/16/visual-studio-11-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on-labs-demo-scripts.aspx Brian
The Rangers have been hard at work lately putting together guidance for good practices for organizing real world test efforts and how our tools can help. If you’ve got a significant test effort and are using the Visual Studio tools, I recommend checking this out. Test Release Management – covers guidance on managing test practices...
One of our MVPs has written a book on VS 2012 ALM. It’s not quite available yet and I haven’t had a chance to look at it closely, but Mathias has been working closely with us for a long time and I expect it will be a good book. Here’s a link to where you can learn more and ultimately order it when it is available. http...
After we shipped VS 2010, we shipped a “Testing Feature Pack” that included support for testing Silverlight 4 applications using UI automation. Our full intent was to incorporate that support into VS 2012. Unfortunately, there were so many competing priorities, we just didn’t have time to get it in – and what&rsq...
Visual Studio has a variety of ways to test your code. – one of them we call “Coded UI”. Coded UI testing is useful when you want to automate a full functional test, as a user would do it, against the UI of your application. You usually start by recording a test case – you manually execute the test in the app and the recorder watches what you do....
There are a couple of new books out now – one on overall application lifecycle management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 and the other a deeper drill into TFS. These were written by some of the best authors I know – combined they know as much about how to explain VS and TFS as any group of people I can imagine. I highly recomm...
The Patterns & Practices team has just published a document on best practices for implementing Continuous Delivery using VS & TFS 2012. It’s a great overview of how to think about the problem and how to implement it. Check it out… http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj159345 Brian
Today we released the Release Candidate for VS, TFS and .NET (and, of course, Windows also released their RC). You can learn more about it and download using the following links: Here are a few notes on the changes in TFS since the Beta. Of course, we’ve done a ton of testing and fixed a lot of bugs. So it should be ...
There was quite a lot of feedback after we released the Beta about the new UI style in VS 11. We've been processing that feedback and working to improve the look and feel. We've just released a new blog post on changes to the VS UI in our upcoming Release Candidate. Check it out and please share any feedback you have.Brian