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Kirill Osenkov from the Visual Studio QA team posted a nice and very detailed post on how to debug crashes and hangs. This post will get you started on how to debug crashes in windows applications using Visual Studio debugger. I recommend you all to read it... Having said that, I must add that this is a simple example and it will only give you the "getting started" knowledge. You can read it here .
Visual Studio 2008 introduces a new option called "Extract Web Test" within the Web Test context menu. This is a cool feature that allows you to extract requests or transactions from a web test and create a new web test. I love this feature mainly because it can save us a lot of time and allow you to modular your tests...Let me explain. One of the key features we need to strive for is to modular our automated tests. We want to be able to reuse modules or web tests within different tests...
Previously I have posted about Test Driven Development & Visual Studio 2010 . Lisa Feigenbaum from the VB Team published a new post that describes the TDD support with the "Generate From Usage" Feature in VS 2010. You can read about it here .
Mindscape had released a cool, free VS add-in: "Visual Studio File Explorer" Why is it cool? First, it is free! Second, It’s basically Windows Explorer inside Visual Studio 2008. That means that you can perform file system tasks without needing to move out from Visual Studio. Where do I download it? You can download it here .
Up to now, Visual Studio did a great job helping us develop applications and tests based on existing classes and methods, but when you don't have your API ready, the IDE will fight you. TDD is out there for some time now and is popular, however the IDE gives all those developers who use TDD hard time. Visual Studio 2010 IDE has some improvements to allow test first style. Class Stub I love using the method stub, where if I don't have a method the IDE allows me to auto generate it with the...
Visual Studio 2010 has some cool features for the developers to allow rapid application development and basically allow the developers to be more productive. Quick Find This allows you to actually use auto-complete in order to find you method, file, class and etc. It is really great! If you have a method that called "DoSomething", you can search for the capital initials "DS" and it will find it for you, is that cool or what? Call Hierarchy We all know the feature "Find all...
Here is a problem I encountered while working with Visual Studio 2005 and 2008.... The last time this happened to me was while working on TFS custom control. So in order to create a custom control, we must add the assembly we have created and a wicc file to the following folder: "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\9.0" This is the path where TFS (Team Explorer) will look at when using custom controls. When I...
I have been working on creating an Add-In to Visual Studio. One of the things I was trying to do is hooking to several solution related events such as Solution Opened and Solution After Closing. The solution opened event Occurs immediately after opening a solution or project. The solution after closing event Occurs immediately closing closing a solution. You can read more about the events here . So, while trying to connect to the opened event, I wrote this code: _applicationObject.Events.SolutionEvents...
