Visual Studio ALM Video & Two Updates for TFS/VS You Should Install

Some news for Visual Studio 2010, I’ll start from several updates you should to apply on you TFS and Visual Studio.

KB - TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1 – KB2536929

This is the first Update from Microsoft since SP1, and the new concept from Microsoft is to release hot fixes for critical bugs, every once in a while when the development team feels they have critical mass of fixes they will publish new Update includes all hot fixes. – So make sure your Visual Studio and TFS are up to date.

• This update should be installed on TFS application tiers and build servers. It need not be installed elsewhere (clients or proxies).
• *IMPORTANT UPDATE* - Don't install this patch on a TFS proxy!

KB - Rollup Update - Testing Tools in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 –  Read KB 

The above update solves several issues in Coded UI Testing:

• Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131014)
• "Search may have failed at '<name>' <control type> as it may have virtualized children. If the control being searched is descendant of '<name>' <control type> then including it as the parent container may solve the problem."
• And More - Read KB

Visual Studio ALM + Team Foundation Server Blog

Esther Fan has released a great list of videos from MSDN about Visual Studio ALM, you will find videos for Testing, Development, Visualization, Modeling, and Architecture, Team Foundation Server and Lab Management.

Article - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vstsue/archive/2011/06/15/videos-about-visual-studio-alm-team-foundation-server-2010-on-msdn.aspx

A Glimpse:

Testing

• How do I get started with test cases in Visual Studio Test Professional 2010?
• How do I manage test cases with Visual Studio 2010?
• How do I get started with coded UI tests?
• How do I get started with Visual Studio 2010 test impact analysis?
• How do I do exploratory testing with Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate?
• How do I use ASP.NET Profiler in load tests?
• How do I use network emulation in load tests?
• How do I get started with a database unit test?

Lab Management

• How do I get an overview of Lab Management?
• How do I set up and configure Lab Management?
• How do I create a virtual environment with Lab Management?
• How do I create, build, and test artifacts with Lab Management?
• How do I automate the build-deploy-test cycle in Lab Management?
• How do I file a rich bug with environment snapshots?
• How do I clone environments using network isolation?