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• When is a bug a bug and when is it an incomplete feature

  Had a fascinating conversation with one of our partners today, the meeting was about how they should be integrating all the new test artifacts in VSTS 2010 (Test Cases, Test Plans, Test Configs, Shared Steps, Test Points, Test Results) into their customised Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 3:25 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System

• PDC: D-1

  Spent this morning at the convention centre getting some help from the onsite Tech Support guys with a demo hardware disaster that had an unfortunate impact on my codecamp session. Apologies to the attendees for the lack of focus on the session as I was Read More... Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:34 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft, PDC2008

• PDC: D-2

  Its Saturday and I am hanging out in the fabby LA weather, high 80's today. I spent the day at the SoCal CodeCamp , no sessions for me to present today so I got spend the day listening to other folks. There is nothing more educational than watching other Read More... Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 4:24 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft, PDC2008

• Yipeeeeee, PDC time!

  Yep I'm off to LA at the end of the week. Originally I was supposed to do a session on Software Quality and Diagnostics for Services, but we gave that slot to some other folks, then I was not going, then I was added to the booth/lounge team and now I Read More... Posted Thursday, October 23, 2008 2:42 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft, PDC, PDC2008

• Unit Testing for Silverlight...

  Jeff has a follow up post to the demos from Mix here . The silverlight unit test framework is based on a special build of mstest's infrastructure, targetted at CoreCLR. How cool is that :-) Read More... Posted Friday, March 21, 2008 12:54 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft

• Quick Link: WCF Load testing Follow up from Seattle Code Camp

  If you were at Seattle Code Camp this morning and heard me mention the new WCF load testing work that our Ranger team has been doing, Jeff has a great summary post here . Read More... Posted Monday, January 28, 2008 12:02 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft

• Rosario Nov CTP: Great Walkthrough of Planning and Executing Tests from one of our MVPs

  I love our MVPs (most of the time <g>) I was about to sit down, after watching the Seahawks win the division again, and write a lap around the November CTP from a test perspective. However Grant Holliday has 2 great posts. In general he gets it Read More... Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 10:58 AM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft, Rosario, VSTSR

• Data Dude Power Tools V1 Available

  Stealing shamelessly from the mail Gert sent internally, I'm downloading now... The Power Tools contain an impressing first set of new features; Dependency Viewer Refactoring Move Schema Expand Wildcard Fully Quality Name Refactor in to strongly typed Read More... Posted Monday, August 13, 2007 2:29 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, Team System, Microsoft

• Visual Studio Team System Codename "Rosario" Aug CTP, is now live

  Jeff Beehler sent the big mail, long blog post with lots of screen shots to follow over the weekend. The game is afoot! Read More... Posted Saturday, August 04, 2007 6:59 AM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft, Rosario, VSTSR

• Rosario: Next Generation of Team Test (almost) out in the wild - Rosario Aug CTP

  Brian let the cat out of the bag earlier today, then Doug confirmed it . The project I came over to VSTS to focus on is starting to get shared. As Brian discusses in his post we demo'd live code from the Aug CTP and the CTP that will follow Aug this week Read More... Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:11 AM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System, Microsoft, Rosario

• Service Release of Data Dude now out

  Gert has all the details . Read More... Posted Thursday, July 26, 2007 9:42 AM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, Team System, Microsoft

• Launch Date <> (or != if you prefer) RTM Date

  At the World Wide Partner Conference (WWPC) this week Kevin Turner announced a launch date for the 2008 Wave of Products(Longhorn, Orcas and Katmai). There has been a lot of conjecture about products slipping and stuff like that. To be clear this is all Read More... Posted Thursday, July 12, 2007 7:21 AM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, Team System, Microsoft

• Using Excel as a source for manual Tests in VSTT

  We get asked for this a lot and we are looking to address it in the future, for now Michael has a workaround that I have copied below. 1) In Excel : - Create new file in excel - File->Properties - Go to the Custom page - In the Name edit box type: Read More... Posted Thursday, May 10, 2007 7:11 AM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team System

• Analysis Services Load Simulator

  This is a cool project for lots of reasons; There is a real need for this It has already been used by some MCS consultants so we know it works Its being released as a community project For me its cool because its for Analysis Services, which i worked Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 3:08 PM from Euan Garden's BLOG | (Comments Off) Filed under: SQL Server, Team System, Microsoft

• Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" Beta 1 for MSDN Subscribers

  It appears that the ISO images for Visual Studio code name "Orcas" Beta 1 are now showing up on MSDN Subscriber Downloads. The ISO image for Team Suite should appear anytime now. 1292 Read More... Posted Saturday, April 21, 2007 2:49 AM from MSDN Blogs | (Comments Off) Filed under: Team Foundation Server, Orcas, Team System, Downloads, Visual Studio, MSDN Subscriptions