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Migrating Coded UI Test Projects on VS 2012

In Visual Studio 2012, Coded UI Test projects provide silent upgrade features where if you open a Coded UI Test project which was created in Visual Studio 2010 SP1, it will get repaired automatically to support both Visual Studio 2012 & Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Similarly if you create any new Coded UI Test project in Visual Studio 2012, you...

Enabling Tracing and HtmlLogger in Coded UI Test

Enabling HtmlLogger & Tracing in Coded UI Test There have been a few changes in Visual Studio 2012 how Coded UI Test are run & how to enable logging. Now we can have both .NET v4.0 & v4.5 type Coded UI Test projects. Note this is an extension to previous blog on enabling tracing for Coded UI Test which is also applicable for ...

SQL Server Data Tools – November 2012 is now available!

The SQL Data Tools Team (Gert Draper aka the “Data dude”’s team)  is pleased to share with us that SSDT - November 2012 update is now available for download. SSDT for Visual Studio 2012: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650015 SSDT for Visual Studio 2010: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/jj650014 What's new in the SQL Server Data...

Eylean Board

This past summer I had the chance to play around a bit with a tool called the Eylean Board - an add-in for TFS that provides visual project management.  In TFS 2012 we shipped a set of features to visually manage your backlog, sprint plans, etc. The Eylean Board provides a similar experience but offers a broader set of functionality (...

UI Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 provides complete record and play support through Coded UI for performing UI validations on Sharepoint 2010 applications. Recording and playing back on a sharepoint application is no different from recording on any webpage on Internet Explorer as internally the Coded UI IE plugin is being used. This blog assumes ...