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There is a call for speaker for DDD in Dublin on the 9 th of October, that is not that far away is it! [Updated 1 Sep 2010] The link would help http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/dddie10/

Test Professional, after the Lab Management update , now uses Expression Encoder 4.0 to create it video of screen activity . This means that when you run a test and record a video you end up with an attachment called ScreenCapture.xesc. Now my PC did not have the Expression Encoder 4.0 installed, so did not know what to do with an .xesc file created...

Interesting user too stupid error today whist adding some CodeUI tests to a Lab Management deployment scenario. I added the Test Case and associated it with Coded UI test in Visual Studio I made sure my deployment build had the tests selected I then ran my Lab Deployment build, but got the error Build directory of the test run is not specified or does...

Between writing the previous post about provisioning Managed Metadata fields declaratively we decided to remove the hard-coded term store name shown below var termStore = session.TermStores[" Managed Metadata Service "]; and replace it with TermStore termStore = session.DefaultSiteCollectionTermStore; We found that while the solution worked...

I have been using the ExternalTestRunner 2010 Build activity I wrote . I realised that at least one of the parameters I need to set, the ProjectCollection used to publish the test results, was hard coded in my sample. It was set in the form http://myserver:8080/tfs/MyCollection This is not that sensible, as this value is available using the build API...