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Introducing SharePoint Emulators

November 26, 2012 Nov 26, 2012 11/26/12
Joshua Weber-MSFT
The Visual Studio team is pleased to announce availability of Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Emulators. Unit testing for SharePoint code is difficult. Ideally you would like to isolate code under test from the surrounding SharePoint framework. Isolation frameworks, such as Microsoft Fakes, can enable this code isolation. Unfortunately, as ...

Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guidance

November 22, 2012 Nov 22, 2012 11/22/12
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Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. (image) Issue It is not simple to implement a consistent branching model, that complies with ...

Retrying failed playback actions with Coded UI

November 20, 2012 Nov 20, 2012 11/20/12
Srishti [MSFT]
This blog assumes that you have basic understanding of Coded UI and are familiar with the code generated from a recording on Winforms, WPF or Web applications. A lot of times, while running a UI test, our test runs into an unexpected pagestate, say an unexpected error dialog, dismissing which would make our test work, or maybe the server ...

New Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool is Available!

November 9, 2012 Nov 9, 2012 11/9/12
Charles Sterling
In the last month I have seen multiple requests for a new Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool – and here it is! The Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool provides a Wizard Based UI for upgrading Visual Source Safe repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012, 2010 or Team Foundation Service (http://tfs.visualstudio.com/) Upgrades the follow from ...

How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test Explorer

November 9, 2012 Nov 9, 2012 11/9/12
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As a result of writing the post: Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager I asked one the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, to also look at one of the most requested Visual Studio Update 1 features – but an area I didn’t have a post on yet: Grouping in the new Unit Test Explorer.   He takes a look and by...

Migrating Coded UI Test Projects on VS 2012

November 8, 2012 Nov 8, 2012 11/8/12
Aditya_msft
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

November 8, 2012 Nov 8, 2012 11/8/12
Aditya_msft
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!

November 7, 2012 Nov 7, 2012 11/7/12
Charles Sterling
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...