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What’s new for Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio 11 Beta
After the release of Visual studio 2010, Microsoft Test Manager gained a lot of popularity and we heard a whole lot of feedback about the tool, both good and bad. We consolidated it and decided to fix the top items causing dissatisfaction to the MTM users, the top 3 being performance issues in MTM, multiline support for test steps and test data reduction. Below are the details of these and other improvements we did in Microsoft Test Manager in the Visual Studio 11 Beta release. Significant performance gains in MTM Improving the performance was a major ask from the Test Manager users and we have done a l...
Code sample for using TFS events
The guys behind the All-In-One Code Framework published a sample on using TFS events earlier this month. I'm not sure, but it may have been thier first sample covering TFS. They have more on their backlog. You can suggest sample ideas, and vote on other suggestions, too. To vote on suggestions, search for TFS in the sample request service.
Enabling Feedback Requests for Team Foundation Server
You may have noticed that your Team Foundation Server Web Web Access doesn’t give you the ability to “Request Feedback” by default -like the videos/demos we showed at the /BUILD conference…more than likely this is due to the fact you have not enabled email alerts in Team Foundation Server. To to do this….
Team Foundation Tour kicking off in Montreal 14 with Mario Cardinal
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 French. Next course is in Montreal, March 14-15. To learn moreAbout the instructorMario Cardinal is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture. He love to extract the essence of a complicated situation, sort out the co...
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”