VSTS - Buck Hodges

Orcas: Unit testing to be available in Visual Studio Professional

March 27, 2007 Mar 27, 2007 03/27/07

Buck Hodges

Naysawn Naderi wrote a post today stating that many of the unit test features in Team System will be included in Visual Studio Professional in Orcas. Here's the entire post, but I've highlighted part below that I think you'll want to read and perhaps provide feedback to the team as to your opinion. If folks want this, you may want ...

VSTS profiler: Installing only the command line tool

March 26, 2007 Mar 26, 2007 03/26/07

Buck Hodges

I'm posting this mostly to remind myself of where it is. This came across on the internal VSTS discussion alias today. Visual Studio Profiler has a standalone installation: look for vs_profiler.exe in the Visual Studio installation CD/DVD. Installing that package allows users to collect, analyze and report performance data from ...

How to run tests in a build without test metadata files and test lists (.vsmdi files)

November 4, 2006 Nov 4, 2006 11/4/06

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 6/16/2010] The VSTS 2008 release added support for test containers (/testcontainer) in the product, and the 2010 release added support for test categories. This post now only applies to TFS 2005. Since the beginning, running tests in Team Build (or MSBuild in general) has meant having to use .vsmdi files to specify the...