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October 2011 - Azure DevOps Blog

Using Lab Manager 2010 with Windows Azure Web Seminar Nov 1st

October 28, 2011 Oct 28, 2011 10/28/11
Charles Sterling
Our enterprise team with sticky minds has put together a Webcast on Load Testing in the Cloud. Abstract:With the introduction of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure we now have the ability to easily create load testing scenarios on the cloud. Using the infrastructure of Windows Azure can provide a cost effective way to performance test your ...

Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party Windows Forms controls–How to?

October 28, 2011 Oct 28, 2011 10/28/11
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Here is how one can add FULL Coded UI Test support for a 3rd party control based on Windows Forms technology. Implementation Method – Accessibility Accessibility means having equal access to web-based information and services regardless of physical or developmental abilities or impairments. Once implemented, it helps developers make their ...

Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained

October 28, 2011 Oct 28, 2011 10/28/11
Shubhra Maji MSFT
Having developed a 3rd party control, wonder what it takes to go from NO support to FULL support for Coded UI Test? How to make the UI elements testable by Coded UI Test – to be able to create automated tests from manual recording, record user actions, generate code from user actions, add custom code to UI Tests and finally run those coded ...

ALM Events in Redmond by Northwest Cadence

October 27, 2011 Oct 27, 2011 10/27/11
Charles Sterling
Martin Hinshelwood and Steve Borg as still as busy as ever!  Here are their next two months set of free and near events!LIVE West Region EventsFREE 1-day seminars LIVE Coffee Talk Events: [same information as yesterday’s email]1-hour live events hosted at the Microsoft Store in Bellevue.Space is limited, so please be sure to ...

IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools – Training and Exploration Sandbox

October 26, 2011 Oct 26, 2011 10/26/11
Willy-P. Schaub
For those that have explored the Getting Started IBM CC-CQTFS Migration 101 Basic Training mentioned in the Getting Started with IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server (TFS) Migrations post, the evaluation and training sandbox environment is nothing new. We are working together with TeamDevCentral who are hosting and managing the sandbox ...

How to Build VB6 Apps with TFS Team Build 2010

October 25, 2011 Oct 25, 2011 10/25/11
Charles Sterling
In the last week I have seen three requests for people wanting to know how to build Visual Basic 6 Applications with Team Foundation Server.  Turns out one of my ALM MVPs, Richard Banks, has written a great blog post on exactly this topic.   In his post he walks you through modifying the build workflow, replacing the “Run ...

All Star ALM Line up at DevTeach Ottawa Nov 2-4

October 12, 2011 Oct 12, 2011 10/12/11
Charles Sterling
If you are Canadian based or looking for a great conference on ALM topics you can not do much better than the line up the Folks at DevTeach have brought together!  Below are just a small subset of the ALM hero’s presenting at this conference (Okay they all happen to be ALM MVPs)DevTeach offers a main conference which will be held on...

Northwest Cadence ALM Presentations on Agile Development using Visual Studio ALM–all over the USA!

October 11, 2011 Oct 11, 2011 10/11/11
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Steve Borg, Martin Hinshelwood and the boys at Northwest Cadence are going to have their name from Northwest Cadence if they keep doing all these free presentations all over the US!As I have said before these two MVPs are the best ALM trainers on the planet and the fact you can get their classes free is a phenomenal value!In - Person Events:...