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Special Discount for Scrum.ORG course in China by Adam Cogan
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 500 off the regular price. Note: Discount only offered in China. To register for this class in ChinaOther Scrum.ORG classes you might be interested in:
Team Foundation Service Preview–Updated videos are available
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 videos were updated in place, so all existing links still work.You can go to Martin’s blog post to for more detail on these videos, but for convenience they are listed below: Enjoy!
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Developer Day Feb 18th 2012 at Hyderabad
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 hour customer visit marathon including a sensationally fun visit to Infosys….I must admit I still can not get my head around the fact they have TENS of THOUSANDS of developers at the complex I visited (my home town of Oakland Oregon has a population of less than 500 peop...
Feb. 20112 MN ALM User Group Meeting: Preview of VS 11 Test Tool Enhancements
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 beta is publically available, we will talk about the new testing features and enhancements in the next version of Visual Studio. Worst case scenario we will be confined to the enhancements available in the "Build" build and time permitting we can even look at a couple of fea...
Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame
In Visual Studio 2010 Under certain circumstances the you may encounter problems opening the Test View window. (see image below) 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 -> Options… | Test Tools 2. Check the checkbox “Show all settings” to see the Test Tools settings 3. For the condition that reads “ When changes are made to the tests and background discovery of test methods is not enabled” (#9 from the top), choose “Don’t prompt”
Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines
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 practices and world-class tools to support those practices are critical to being successful with Scrum. Scrum.org and Microsoft are sponsoring these courses in order to bring them to developers in emerging markets, at an attainable cost, to enable developers to honestly say "I am a professi...
How To: Get all test points assigned to you?
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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.
Application Lifecycle Management SDR on Testing in Hyderabad Feb 21st
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 be visiting the Microsoft ALM Development teams in Hyderabad India. As part of this trip I would love to organize a private software design review of the next generation ALM features we will be releasing in Visual Studio 11. While the specific agenda will be deter...
New MSDN topic: Coded UI Extension for custom controls
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.