Dominic Hopton's Blog

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Running two Microsoft Test Manager’s Side By Side

When working with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), you might want to run two at a time. We often want...

Author: dhopton Date: 02/26/2010

Republishing Results

There was a interesting question posted in my comments on the TRX file format, about being able to...

Author: dhopton Date: 08/14/2008

This weeks favourite WPF Feature

I've recently been trying to resolve some issues related to large fonts / high DPI, and while...

Author: dhopton Date: 07/05/2008

Helpful Internals of TRX (and VSMDI files)

One of the questions that comes up internally, and externally is "What are these magic GUID...

Author: dhopton Date: 06/13/2008

Running Tests as 'MTA'

There was an internal discussion this week about the need to run unit tests under MTA threads,...

Author: dhopton Date: 10/22/2007

Private[Object|Type|Accessors] & Automatic unpacking of ref/out params

I was writing some unit tests yesterday, and needed to test a private method. As I was gleely...

Author: dhopton Date: 09/20/2007

Unit Testing Dependency Properties with VSTT, a first stab

I've been playing around with WPF recently, and one of the things I've ended up doing is creating a...

Author: dhopton Date: 09/17/2007

Where Have I been? Helping make Team System Rock!

Well, It's been a long time since I blogged - actually, I've not blogged since we shipped our very...

Author: dhopton Date: 01/14/2005

Custom Test Properties & Test View - What is & What will be...

Ok, So I’d thought about this blog yesterday but discounted it ‘cause its not really my...

Author: dhopton Date: 05/25/2004

Tips & Tricks: Set the output type to EXE and give it a main method

Ok, you’ve written your tests, and you want to debug them or you’ve got a test failing...

Author: dhopton Date: 05/24/2004

No! My Run config got toasted!

Another problem with the run configuration is that the template runconfig (The one that gets added...

Author: dhopton Date: 05/24/2004

Setup Failure – It’s just throwing a tantrum

One of the problems we came across during the last moments of testing for the CTP was a very rare...

Author: dhopton Date: 05/24/2004

I turned off code coverage and I can’t run my tests anymore!

This is a problem we only found out after we’d sent off the DVDs to be pressed, and turns out...

Author: dhopton Date: 05/24/2004

Test View – your new most used window

Let’s take a look at the Test View tool window – the place where you will be running...

Author: dhopton Date: 05/24/2004

Who the heck are you?

I’m Dominic, and I’m an SDE/T on the Enterprise Developer Tools team here at Microsoft,...

Author: dhopton Date: 05/24/2004