Planning, Running and measuring tests with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Test and Lab Manager 24 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, Team System, .NET Development So what does Visual Studio 2010 bring for testers? A whole lot! Especially the new test environment, where you can create a test plan to validate the quality of the software you’re building. A test plan is a collection of test cases, which you can then run. While running the system keeps track of a ... [More]
Using the WPF Visualizer in Visual Studio 2010 23 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, WPF/Silverlight Visual Studio 2010 now has a cool little feature I want to show you. When you’re debugging WPF applications, you sometimes need to see the controls and their hierarchy. Now with VS2010 this is easy. Simply use the magnifying class (the visualizer feature) and select the WPF Tree Visualizer: ... [More]
WCF and large messages 23 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot WCF, VS2010, .NET Development, Entity Framework This week I’ve been training a couple of people on how to use .NET, WCF4, Entity Framework 4 and other technologies to build an Enterprise Application. One of the things we did was return all rows from a table, and this table contains about 2500 rows. We’re using the Entity Framework 4 self-tracking... [More]
Using the Visual Studio 2010 Historical Debugger to save and reproduce bugs 22 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010 Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate now has IntelliTrace, which is a historical debugging feature. IntelliTrace will keep track of everything your code has been doing and then, when a bug arrives, you can back-track to the possible cause of the bug. You might think this is nothing new, but don’t forget it a... [More]
Building an Enterprise Application with Entity Framework 4 20 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, VS2010, Entity Framework Entity Framework 3 was a bit of a disappointment when it came to supporting enterprise applications. For me the major reason was the fact that entities used by EF required deriving from a class which is part of EF, thus coding the EF requirement into your Business Logic Layer (BLL) and presentation ... [More]
Get your users to help you reproduce errors with the Problem Steps Recorder 17 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot If you’re a developer, you must have run into a user experiencing problems with your software, AND this user finds it hard to explain what steps were taken to reach the problem. Luckily, Windows 7 now comes with a great feature called to Problem Steps Recorder. This tools will record each step taken... [More]
Using the Visual Studio 2010 layer diagram to verify your solution 17 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Team System Visual Studio 2010 adds a whole new series of modeling tools to the product, including UML modeling. In this post I want to discuss the Layer diagram and its relation to building enterprise applications. The Layer Diagram Visual studio 2010 now comes with new modeling tools, which you can reach th... [More]
Project Management: Planning an iteration with Team System 2010 11 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development, Team System, VS2010 In my previous post I talked about planning a whole project. Now I want to blog about planning a single iteration using the new Team System 2010 iteration with Excel and Project. After creating the user stories, the next step is to break each user story into detailed tasks. To facilitate this, ... [More]
Project Management: Hierarchical Work Items with Visual Studio and Project in Team System 2010 11 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010, .NET Development In my previous posts I talked about high level project management, and detailed iteration planning. Both created work items, mainly user stories with child task work items. How does this work in Visual Studio? And what about MS Project? Visual Studio and hierarchical work items Let’s start with Vi... [More]
Tips en tricks met de Visual Studio Debugger 10 January 2010 Peter-Himschoot Een tijdje geleden heb ik een webcast opgenomen met Microsoft rond beter debuggen met Visual Studio 2008. Abstract: “De Visual Studio debugger is een tool die door ontwikkelaars nog te weinig wordt gebruikt. In deze sessie tonen we hoe u hem als professional kunt gebruiken en leren we nieuwe techni... [More]