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June 2007 - Posts

VSTS unit testing and the .VSMDI

If you have done any serious unit testing with Visual Studio Team System and tried to include these tests in your Team Build you will have come across issues with the .VSMDI . It might drive you crazy until you completeley understand what is going on. Read More...

Do you buy Dell?

If you do, you might find this article useful 22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager . Read More...

EnergizeIT

I am speaking today at EnergizeIT . I'm doing a talk on unit testing with VSTS at 3:30. I'll be talking to the kids about some of the things to watch out for when doing unit testing in VSTS, as well as some of the really nice features. I attached my demo Read More...

WMI (What Magnificent Information)

Yesterday I blogged about a class I came across in the SystemInformation namespace called PowerStatus. It was working great for me until I tested it on a machine with three UPS's plugged into it. The three UPS's were not for that machine of course :) Read More...

PowerStatus

The project I am working on right now is a software factory that will eventually allow it's users to build software that controls robots and other devices in a laboratory. Today I wrote a service that monitors the power on the machine it's running. The Read More...

VSTS ClassCleanup Method

A colleague and friend of mine Andre who in my opinion is a guru of Test Driven Development discivered this issue. If you're used to Nunit and how it fires methods in your test Fixture you may assume VSTS fires the equivalent methods in a similar way. Read More...