One of my favourite new features in VS11 is that the unit testing is pluggable. You don’t have to use MSTest, you can use any test framework that an adaptor is available for (at the release of the beta this meant the list of framworks on Peter Provost’s blog, but I am sure this will grow). So what does this mean and …

I have just added a page to the blog that lists some of the podcasts I try to listen to, in an attempt to keep up to date.

Ours is a fast moving industry and as times goes on I find the need to specialise more and more. However, I believe there is a great value in at least having a passing knowledge of as much of our field as possible, IT pros can learn from developers and .NET team from Java and of course the other way around. I find the …

Whilst writing documentation for TFS community build extensions (just published the Zip activity documentation) I hit upon a problem working with TFS11. The TFS community build extensions support both TFS2010 and TFS11beta, unfortunately the two versions need to be built separately (once against TFS2010 DLLs and once …

I posted yesterday on using Typemock and Microsoft Fakes with SharePoint. After a bit more thought I realised the key thing in using Typemock I found easier was the construction of my SPListItem dataset. Typemock allowed me to fake SPListItems and put them in a generic List then just make this the return value for the …

Updated 5 May 2012 Also see my follow up post, this corrects some of the information of faking SharePoint I have done posts in the past about how you can use Typemock Isolator to fake out SharePoint to speed design and testing. The reason you need special tooling, beyond standard mocking frameworks like Rhino or MOQ, …

Whilst travelling I had neglected to post about the new release of Typemock Isolator Version 7. This new release extends the range of the product to provide a variety of ‘test support tools’ that help you track down bugs sooner. However, the best new feature for me is that it allows support of historic versions of …

One of the nice new feature of TFS11 is that you get a third option for what to do with your build output Don’t copy output anywhere – good for CI builds that nobody will ever consume, just used to run tests Drop to a UNC share e.g. \server1drops – the default and used 9 times out 10 The new one - drop to source …

Written against Visual Studio/Team Foundation beta; so subject to any changes in the SDK. Team Foundation Server 11 has the notion of teams; and its possible to assign work and iterations to multiple teams within a single Team Project. I was searching for a way to access the Team information via the …

It was announced overnight that TEE is now free. What does this mean? It means if you do not have to buy TEE as some extra software if you already have a TFS CAL. This removed a barrier to adoption for developers who work in heterogeneous systems, there is no extra cost to integrate Eclipse as well a Visual Studio with …