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Team Foundation Tour kicking off in Montreal 14 with Mario Cardinal

February 26, 2012 Feb 26, 2012 02/26/12

Charles Sterling

If you live in Canada do not miss the Team Foundation Tour. The Team Foundation Tour is a training specifically designed by Microsoft ALM MVP Mario Cardinal to address the needs of organizations facing challenges adopting Scrum with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. According to the city where the training takes place it will be in English or ...

Special Discount for Scrum.ORG course in China by Adam Cogan

February 25, 2012 Feb 25, 2012 02/25/12

Charles Sterling

I am sitting next to Adam in the Scrum.ORG annual meeting and he mentioned giving attendees a $500 discount for his Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) course .Taught by Adam Cogan March 20-22, 2012 in Bejing, ChinaAttending this course you will: Register before March 1 and get the early bird rate of USD 999, a discount of USD ...

Team Foundation Service Preview–Updated videos are available

February 16, 2012 Feb 16, 2012 02/16/12

Importer

Way back in September of 2011, Martin Woodward published a blog post that referenced a series of Channel 9 videos that were introductions to the TFS Preview.Those videos were recorded based on the version delivered at the BUILD conference. Just wanted to let everyone know that all of those videos have been re-recorded with the latest bits. The...

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Developer Day Feb 18th 2012 at Hyderabad

February 16, 2012 Feb 16, 2012 02/16/12

Charles Sterling

I have been having an absolute blast here in India -can not believe I have only been here three days.  The first day we didn’t arrive to the hotel until and mid morning am and spent the day with Sam Guckenheimer  –trying to figure what we had gotten ourselves into<grin>.    The second day was a 12 ...

Feb. 20112 MN ALM User Group Meeting: Preview of VS 11 Test Tool Enhancements

February 9, 2012 Feb 9, 2012 02/9/12

Charles Sterling

Tim Star, one of the ALM MVP  will be presenting at the Feb. 20112 MN ALM User Group Meeting….Looks like a fun show!Preview of Dev 11 Test Tool Enhancements Feb 15, 2012 5:00-6:30pm Intertech's New Offices! 1575 Thomas Center Dr Eagan, MN 55122Click to Attend DescriptionIf the much anticipated Dev 11 ...

Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame

February 8, 2012 Feb 8, 2012 02/8/12

Charles Sterling

In Visual Studio 2010 Under certain circumstances the you may encounter problems opening the Test View window. (see image below) (image) Luckily it is easy to fix.  To make it go away, you need to close/reopen Visual Studio. If you don’t want this ever happening again, do the following: 1. Go to the Tools main menu -> ...

Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines

February 8, 2012 Feb 8, 2012 02/8/12

Charles Sterling

(image)   Working with Ken Schwaber  Microsoft and Scrum.org has developed a program that helps developers learn Scrum, techniques of software craftsmanship, and all while working in teams to deliver real software on the Visual Studio ALM platform! The Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program recognizes that excellent technical ...

How To: Get all test points assigned to you?

February 2, 2012 Feb 2, 2012 02/2/12

Gautam Goenka [MSFT]

Based on my previous post, one question that came up was - How do I, as a tester, know what test points are assigned to me? In Test->Run Tests, you can click on Filter on the left side to do filtering by Tester andor Configurations.  Refer the screenshots below. (image)   (image) (image...

Application Lifecycle Management SDR on Testing in Hyderabad Feb 21st

February 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012 02/1/12

Charles Sterling

As a reader of the ALM Blog you already know, a corner stone of the next version of Visual Studio code named “Visual Studio 11” is delivering the next generation of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.  February 21th two of the principal stakeholders for ALM tooling at Microsoft Brian Harry and Sam Guckenheimer will ...

New MSDN topic: Coded UI Extension for custom controls

February 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012 02/1/12

Shubhra Maji MSFT

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 ...