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Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test
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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 UITestControl class – To use these methods, unzip the attached sample and add reference in your Coded UI Test project to the UITestXPathUtility.dll. (Note that you have manually ensure this dll is there on all machines on which the tests are run.) Some ...
Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts?
The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team i.e. the folks that work on the user interface for Visual Studio are doing rounds of usability labs –and would love for you to participate! Specifically they are looking for participants to give us direct feedback on our development tools, languages and libraries! Opportunities include usability studies of upcoming features, focus groups where we explore new ideas, as well as 1:1 interviews. (I think their next lab is on Intellitrace ) What do you get out of it? We have a brief enrollment form that will ask you a few quest...
Storyboarding with PowerPoint – Short Videos to Get You Started
We’ve created a few videos to help you quickly get started with PowerPoint Storyboarding. Each video lasts between 1 and 2 minutes. Getting Started To see this in action: [View:http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-45-92/4263.GettingStarted.wmv] Add and Share Custom Shapes Using MyShapes When you can’t find the shape you’re looking for in your Storyboard Shapes pane, you can create a custom shape and share shapes with other team members. We’ve added functionality to create, import, and export MyShapes. [View:http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-fil...
ALM Summit 2011 Content Now Live and available
Working with MSDN and Channel9, the ALM Summit folks have posted all Session the content at: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/alm-summit/2011 If you are looking for recommendations my top 5 were: Â
Interested in Agile Adoption across different industries and geographies?
One of the pioneers of the application quality ecosystem, Theresa Lanowitz, has founded Voke – a company focused Application Lifecycle virtualization and convergence markets. A big part of her and Voke’s focus right now is insight how different development methodologies are doing. If you want a free copy of her latest research data all you have to do is take a short survey (took me 15 minutes). I won’t steal any of her Thunder but it is interesting data! The survey can be found here: survey link.
Team Foundation Service December Update
Today, I’m proud to announce a significant update to our hosted Team Foundation Service. In the 3 months since we went public with the service at //build/, we’ve pushed over a dozen updates to address bugs that customers have reported or we’ve witnessed in production. This update, however, is the first time you’ll see significant new functionality in the service. We continue to iterate on new capabilities for TFS 11 and will frequently update the Team Foundation Preview Service with that functionality. So, without further ado, here’s a top hits list of what’s coming! Navigation Updates As we’ve used the previe...
Team Foundation Service Preview – Get Started with Agile Planning Tools
UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. ** This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Here we walk quickly through the entire cycle of Agile planning: Create a backlog, plan a sprint, set capacity for your team, and viewing a task board for the daily standup. Note that these steps are based on the Scrum process template and will vary with other templates. Done! You’ve added items to your backlog, put them in a sprint, created tasks and team capacity, and started work. Now you can click the ...
Team Foundation Service Preview – Upload Source to Your Hosted Account
UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. ** This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. This post walks you step-by-step to get your source code stored in your Team Foundation Services Preview account.  Congratulations! Your source is now in the cloud, yet still accessible via the Visual Studio interface. If you are new to Version Control and Source Control Explorer, or simply want to dig deeper, you’ll find extensive coverage on the MSDN website: Using Version Control. What’s next? Now you...
Team Foundation Service Preview – Connect Visual Studio 2010 to Your TFS Preview Account
UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. ** This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Visual Studio can work seamlessly with the source, tasks, and builds stored in TFS. This post shows you how to connect Visual Studio to your TFS Preview Account.  That’s it! You have now connected your IDE to your very own Team Foundation Server in the cloud. How cool is that? What’s next? Now you can: