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Use a Coded UI to test ListBox and ComboBox controls in a web application
A little over a year ago, I wrote a blog post about using Coded UI Tests to programmatically manipulate ListBoxes and ComboBoxes in a Windows Form application. More recently I got an email from a reader asking for that same kind of sample application for ListBoxes and ComboBoxes (aka “drop down lists”) using Visual Studio…
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Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Developers course
My second course for Pluralsight went up recently – Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) for Developers. Here’s the course description and outline: Visual Studio 2012 ALM for Developers This course covers Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tooling from the perspective of a software developer. Topics include using TFS to minimize the impact of…
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ALM with TFS 2012 Fundamentals at Pluralsight.com
My first online course for Pluralsight went live a few days ago. Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) Fundamentals. This is a first course in a multi-course series so keep your eyes open for more ALM courses in the near future! Here’s the course description: Team Foundation Server (TFS) is more…
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Slides from my talks at VSLive Redmond 2012
Thanks to everyone who came to my talks at VSLive Redmond 2012. As promised, here are the slides for my talks. Top 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great Scrum Master The Scrum Master role in an organization can be difficult. You live between a rock and a hard place. You’re influential but you…
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TFS2012 Lab Management & SCVMM 2012: Cannot access remotely & Error ID 1604
I’ve been working on installing Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS2012) Lab Management with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 (SCVMM2012). I ran into this bizarre problem where I could log in to SCVMM from the SCVMM console on the local machine but if I tried to access it from a different machine, I’d get an…
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Scrum: “It’s easy enough if you can figure out what to build.”
The quote, “it’s easy enough if you can figure out what to build” comes out of an on-going discussion about project management that I’ve been having with my wife. Her background is in biomedical engineering and she’s always been a little envious that (as she sees it) software is such a certainty. In biology and…
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TFS Lab Management VMs: “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.”
Have you seen this error before on you Team Foundation Server Lab Management virtual machines? “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.” You’ll probably see it on VMs that 1) are joined to a domain, 2) you don’t use very often, and 3) use Hyper-V snapshots (aka SCVMM “checkpoints”). In reality,…
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Debugging Visual Studio Load Test Rig Problems
I was setting up a Visual Studio Load Test rig for a customer recently and we ran into a handful of problems related to Performance Monitor Counters. Here are a couple of the problems and their solutions. Problem #1: You run the load tests on the Load Test rig and you get an error that…
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VSLive Redmond 2011 Slides and Sample Code for my Unit Testing & TFS2010 Build Sessions
I spoke at VSLive in Redmond, Washington last week and gave two talks: 1) “Team Foundation Server 2010 Builds: Understand, Configure, and Customize” and 2) “Design For Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces.” Here are the abstracts: Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces You’re sold on unit testing. You’re even doing…
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Speaking at DevTeach Ottawa: November 2 through November 4, 2011
Some more news. I’ll be speaking at DevTeach in Ottawa, ON. The schedule isn’t 100% set in stone yet but the conference runs from 11/2/2011 through 11/4/2011 and I’ll be giving two talks. Here are the abstracts: Too Slow: Use VS2010 Profiling & Load Testing to Manage Performance Issues You thought you knew how to…