There is a noticeable omission form the tooling for StyleCop that you cannot integrate it into a TFS 2010 Build directly. There is a custom task to do it as part of MSBuild Extension pack, but this is designed for TFS 2008.

So when I had to wire in StyleCop to our 2010 build process I hit a problem, I could

1. Edit the …

Recently Packt Publishing sent me a copy of ‘Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010’ by Peter Ritchie, I have to say I have rather impressed by it.

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There is a call for speaker for DDD in Dublin on the 9th 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 …

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

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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 …

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 …

Access MVP Ben Clothier has posted an article and video on Going beyond Web Macros: Using Event Receivers & .NET with Access Services. This takes some of the techniques I was proposing for .NET/Access integration and added to them using Ben’s extensive experience in the Access space.

Well worth a look if you want …