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The Visual Studio team has released MSDN documentation on Enable Coded UI Testing of Your Custom Controls. Please go through the step-by-step implementation of Coded UI extension points to achieve various levels of support. The document describes how to make a custom ChartControl with CurveLegend child object work with Coded UI....

Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has test runner using which one can do manual testing. One of the features that many folks use while doing manual testing using test runner is the Fast Forward feature. With this feature, a tester can do an action recording and later use that to fast forward the test with playback of the recording. A while back, this q...

Some important notes before I talk about the utility - The attached sample utility adds support for XPath query to Coded UI Test for searching controls.  The utility uses built-in XPath parser and other classes of .NET and as such is conformant to .NET’s XPath Syntax.  The new utility assembly adds two extension methods to ...

Brian Blackman, Paul Meyer (VMFactory Master) and Willy-Peter Schaub have just published an article in MSDN Magazine (December Edition), which delves into the Virtual Machine Factory (VM Factory), exploring its concepts and advantages. Read all about it here.

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 program...

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 UI Tests...

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 environme...

Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure was announced at //BUILD/ and has received phenomenal coverage to date. The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have been dog-fooding the technology for some time and I thought it was important to highlight that “we love it”   Are we dog fooding or tinkering? Initially we were exploring, researching and testing ...

You have all seen the exciting announcements being made at //BUILD/, presenting Visual Studio 11, Team Foundation Server 11, Windows 8 and a new era of targeting platforms across devices, services and the cloud. Visual Studio 11 Readiness The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have been working on their latest conspiracy for a while and now that the cat i...

Normally, I use this space to discuss the important stuff: me, and the weather in the Pacific Northwest. But not this time. This time it's all about the writers. They are all fine people. Even though, except for one glorious day last Saturday, it has only been above 55 degrees twice since Febuary 1, and no one seems to understand the ef...