Shai Raiten's Blog : RC

Convert VS 11 Beta Metro Projects To VS 2012 RC

shair — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:16:55 GMT

Over the last months I’ve worked a lot with Windows 8 Metro applications, from Consumer Preview to Preview 2 and now to RC.

When working on Beta versions you know that you have to upgrade your app when RC or RTM versions will published, and sometime those upgrades can take a while…

So this is the first part of upgrading your Project from Visual Studio 11 Beta to Visual Studio 2012 RC, in my next post I’ll talk about code Changes from Beta to RC both for C# and JavaScript.

JavaScript

For JavaScript project this is pretty easy, just open the solution and change the WinRT version from 0.6 to 1.0.RC

But if you have several projects you created in Consumer Preview you might want to go this way:

I’ve download a “Find & Replace” tool (DivlocSoft - File Find and Replace Software) allowing me to Search inside file content and replace – so you need to search for:

<SDKReference Include="Microsoft.WinJS, Version=0.6" />

and Replace with:

<SDKReference Include="Microsoft.WinJS.1.0.RC, Version=1.0" />

same goes here, both Html and JavaScript files that have reference you should search for:

//Microsoft.WinJS.0.6/

and Replace with:

//Microsoft.WinJS.1.0.RC/

C#

Nothing hard to do for converting the project to RC, this is because in C# projects a reference to the entire .Net Framework and Windows SDK are automatically included.

This is just for upgrading the Project, for C# there is no chance your project will run, there is too many changes and I’ll talk about them in my next post.

TFS 2010 Beta 2 and the Release Candidate Expiration is June 30, 2010

shair — Thu, 13 May 2010 00:51:00 GMT

Beta 2 and the Release Candidate Expiration is June 30, 2010

Brian Harry just post about the expiration date for both Beta 2 and the Release Candidate is June 30, 2010.

So if you're still using Beta 2 or RC version of TFS 2010 hurry up and start planning Upgrade to TFS 2010 RTM.

Quality Center 2 TFS 2010 Migration In 3 Hours

shair — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:18:09 GMT

Quality Center 2 TFS 2010 Migration In 3 Hours

Couple of months ago I’ve published about Quality Center 2 TFS 2010 migration tool (Quality Center Migration To Team System 2010 – Done),
I’m glad to announce that we had a very good experience with our Beta customer and now this tool is operational and will be available for Sela Customers.

If you want to migrate all Quality Center data to Team System and afraid to lose time and data this is the right solution for you.

For any questions please free to contact me.

Beta Customer Statistics:

8500 Item

· 1500 Requirements

· 6000 Bugs

· 1000 Test Cases

All In 3 Hours

Visual Studio 2010 Test Package for Mozilla Firefox

shair — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:57:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 Test Package for Mozilla Firefox

As you know Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI Test will not support Firefox recording, but is now supporting Firefox Playback.

Coded UI Test will not recognize Firefox objects, many customer needs the ability to run automation on Firefox browser, for that reason Microsoft just released a “Power Tool” just for that (Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and above).

How To Record Coded UI Test On Firefox

“Visual Studio Test Package for Mozilla Firefox” which can be downloaded from here.

After you download the installation proceed with the instructions until this setup ends.

After the setup ends run the extension installation tool ( %CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\VSTT\10.0\UITestExtensionPackages\ConfigFFExtension.exe )

Now when you start Firefox in the first time you will see Visual Studio Test Helper plug installed.

Microsoft Test Manager – Running Test

If have create a simple Test Case for Bing.com search test.

Run Test Case and make sure to check “Create action recording” – The First Run need to be recorded against Internet Explorer and not Firefox,
after you finish the first run you will notice Orange color beside the steps indicate about Automation available for those steps.

Now before you start the second iteration open “Run” combo and click “Change Browser For Playback”, this will open a new window that allows you to select the desire Browser for playback, select Firefox 3.5 and click “Save”.

Click “Play all”, and you will notice the Playback is running on Firefox 3.5.

Enjoy.

VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue – Registry Patch

shair — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:58:37 GMT

VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue – Registry Patch

In my previous post VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue – Patch there is a patch that you can download to fix Crashing issue with Visual Studio 2010 RC, this patch didn’t works for me.

Another workaround to solve this issue is not a pretty one, but it works!

Open RegEdit and map to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\General

and add a new DWORD called “EnableUnhandledExceptionDisplay” with value “1”.

After this you will get a warning message (just once) and this really solving this problem.

VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue – Patch

shair — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 22:44:54 GMT

VS 2010 RC Intellisense Crash Issue – Patch

Over the last week I had one big problem with Visual Studio 2010 RC, while writing code in visual studio and used the Intellisense VS crashed.

Before I reinstall Visual Studio 2010 RC I found out that Patch available for this problem, You can download and run it here.

This Fix is not just for crashes with the VS 2010 RC, also if you have a tablet, multi-touch, screen-reader or external devices attached (including Wacom tablets, phones/ipods, and others that connect via USB).

Error Log:

Fault bucket , type 0
Event Name: CLR20r3
Response: Not available
Cab Id: 0

Problem signature:
P1: devenv.exe
P2: 10.0.30128.1
P3: 4b611627
P4: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.VSEditor
P5: 10.0.0.0
P6: 4b60f36e
P7: 9d7
P8: 29
P9: System.InvalidOperationException
P10:

Attached files:
C:\Users\Shai Raiten\AppData\Local\debuggee.mdmp
C:\Users\Shai Raiten\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VSCommon\10.0\SQM\sqmdata.cvr

These files may be available here:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\Critical_devenv.exe_79b54d639b45914372ccfe1bccb8a97c76299d_3a184f19

Analysis symbol:
Rechecking for solution: 0
Report Id: 2351b8e1-2151-11df-853e-00225f2273f6
Report Status: 1

TFS API Part 20: Bye TeamFoundationServer and Welcome TfsTeamProjectCollection

shair — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:37:57 GMT

TFS API Part 20: Bye TeamFoundationServer and Welcome TfsTeamProjectCollection

In my last post I talked about Upgrade Team System Beta 2 To RC – Smooth and the amazing performance improvement in Visual Studio.

Trying to compile a old TFS utility with Visual Studio RC, I found out the TeamFoundationServer class is obsolete, The replacement is TfsTeamProjectCollection or TfsConfigurationServer classes to talk to a 2010 Team Foundation Server.
In order to talk to a 2005 or 2008 Team Foundation Server use the TfsTeamProjectCollection class.

public TfsTeamProjectCollection(RegisteredProjectCollection projectCollection);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(Uri uri);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(RegisteredProjectCollection projectCollection, IdentityDescriptor identityToImpersonate);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(Uri uri, ICredentialsProvider credentialsProvider);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(Uri uri, IdentityDescriptor identityToImpersonate);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(RegisteredProjectCollection projectCollection, ICredentials credentials, ICredentialsProvider credentialsProvider);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials, ICredentialsProvider credentialsProvider);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(RegisteredProjectCollection projectCollection, ICredentials credentials, ICredentialsProvider credentialsProvider, IdentityDescriptor identityToImpersonate);
public TfsTeamProjectCollection(Uri uri, ICredentials credentials, ICredentialsProvider credentialsProvider, IdentityDescriptor identityToImpersonate);

Here is couple of older post on how to connect TFS using API

TFS API Part 1: Domain Picker

TFS API Part 2: Domain Picker Using Registered Servers (Cache)

TFS API Part 13: More About Connecting TFS (Custom Credentials, Prompt)

Enjoy

Test Manager 2010 (RC) – What’s New

shair — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:20:00 GMT

Test Manager 2010 (RC) – What’s New

In my last post I’ve talked about how to upgrade you TFS - Upgrade Team System Beta 2 To RC – Smooth, I didn’t post anything about how to upgrade Visual Studio Beta2 to RC, because all you need to do is uninstall Beta 2 and Install the RC.(If you used Beta 2 Modeling projects take a look at this post - Visual Studio 2010 RC – Unable To Load Modeling Project From Beta 2).

So what’s new in RC:

1. Speed Speed Speed, Microsoft did a great job with Test Manager performance issues.

2. Previous versions of MTLM didn’t had one feature that is very important to manage a full QA process – Create Various Types Of Work Items, until the RC MTLM users can only open Bugs and Test cases.
So now you can create all types of work items from Test Manager.

3. New button in Test Run will allow you to jump the next iteration.

Hierarchy View – Yes, it’s not a joke, in Beta 2 only Visual Studio users were able to view work item hierarchy, so now you can see the same queries and views as Visual Studio, also you can create your own queries very easily from Test Manager.

Data and Diagnostics – More details on what you want to collect, and Profiler was removed from that list.

Verify Bug - Now you can change the default queries not only the Custom.

Visual Studio 2010 RC – Unable To Load Modeling Project From Beta 2

shair — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:55:13 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 RC – Unable To Load Modeling Project From Beta 2

After upgrading to Visual Studio RC I was unable to open Modeling project that were created in Visual Studio Beta 2.

There is a very quick workaround to solve this issue by modifying the modelproj file.

There are only three actions need to be done:

1. Backup your projects.

2. Open modelproj file and change the version to 1.0.0.0 (0.3.0.0) and attribute name from TeamArchitect to ArchitectureTools

3. Define the new path where Modeling project targets are placed.

4. Platform need to be – AnyCPU.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <Configuration Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == '' ">Debug</Configuration>
    <Platform Condition=" '$(Platform)' == '' ">AnyCPU</Platform>
    <SchemaVersion>2.0</SchemaVersion>
    <ProjectGuid>{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}</ProjectGuid>
    <TeamArchitect>0.3.0.0</TeamArchitect>    --->>> Change To --->>> <ArchitectureTools>1.0.0.0</ArchitectureTools>
    <Name>ModelingProject1</Name>
    <RootNamespace>ModelingProject1</RootNamespace>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
    <OutputPath>bin\Debug\</OutputPath>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
    <OutputPath>bin\Release\</OutputPath>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamArchitect\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamArchitect.ModelingProject.targets" /> 
--->>> Change To --->>>           
  <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\ArchitectureTools\Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamArchitect.ModelingProject.targets" />
  <ItemGroup>
    <Folder Include="ModelDefinition\" />
    <Content Include="ModelDefinition\ModelingProject1.uml">
      <SubType>Content</SubType>
    </Content>
  </ItemGroup>
</Project>
Now you should be able to load your Modeling project, but not yet all the items related (UML,VCL, etc…)
To complete the “Upgrade” run a quick search and find and replace dslVersion="0.3.0.0" with dslVersion="1.0.0.0"
(Some items had code behind so make sure you search all the items.)
Save and every thing should work.
Hope this helps.
 