Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...

Tweet Quality Center vs. TFS is a question I hear a lot, each customer that works with Quality Center has faced this question when the development team has decided to work with TFS or the Testers want features to help them improve their testing quality. Instead of talking about that subject only with my customers I decided to write something on that subject to help you understand the power of TFS for Testers, and how this platform will improve your Testing abilities with more advance features and...

A while ago I posted about a bug in viewing the Build Details Log inside Visual Studio. I’ve also submitted bug on the Connect web site, but the answer was “suppress warning level”. Now there are  news : A good one and A bad one. I’ll start with the good one: This is officially a bug and will be fix in the next release. The bad one is that right now, if you have a big Project to build that includes a lot of solutions and projects (we have like 70 solutions with more than 700 projects that all...

Code Metrics From The Command Line - Power Tools In my last post I’ve talked about What is Code Metrics in Visual Studio, and how Code Metrics will allow you to monitor you code to find those un-maintainable and complex hotspots “Microsoft just release a command line because many customers are looking for a way to generate code metrics information as part of their build process. In this way, the complexity associated with assemblies coming out of your nightly builds could potentially be tracked and...

What is Code Metrics Visual Studio 2008/2010 comes with a nice tool that called – Code Metrics: “gives you the ability to dig deep to find those un-maintainable and complex hotspots” Code Metrics calculate 5 measures: Lines of Code – Indicates the approximate number of lines in the code. The count is based on the IL code and is therefore not the exact number of lines in the source code file. A very high count might indicate that a type or method is trying to do too much work and should be split up...

Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 2 In my last post on that subject Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 I showed how to create and use the basic features in Visual Studio Installer, this is the second part and more advanced. Download Demo Project Run External Application during Setup In this step I’ll show how to run an external application before the actual install process using “Installer Class”. Create new WPF Application project called – “SetupHelper” and add additional...

Extending Visual Studio Setup Project – Part 1 One of the thing I hear all the time when companies talks for building reliable Windows Installer (MSI) for their product is –> Visual Studio Setup Project is not enough and we need much much more, my first response is – Wait, VS Setup project is not like Advanced Installer , InstallShield but still can do a lot more outside the box. Setup projects are used to create Windows Installer (.msi) files, which are used to distribute your application for...

Since the release of the new SP1 beta of TFS 2010 and VS2010 that I have published about in my post: "Visual Studio 2010 And TFS 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Has Released" , I have received a lot of questions about what’s new. I have just read a very good post by: “Learn TFS” that summarize all that is new in this service pack. You can read more in: “Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and TFS 2010 SP1 Roundup” Have Fun!!!

Finally it is here! I have writen about the feature pack 2 in my post: “New Feature Pack For Testing Is About To Be Delivered Including Silverlight Support!” You can download the feature pack only if you are a MSDN Subscriber and you have Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition Premium Edition or Test Professional from here . The Feature Pack 2 is already including Feature Pack 1. Have Fun!!!

A few days ago Brian Harry has announced the N ew Features and Testing Capabilities that will be released in what the call “Feature Pack 2” that is dedicated to the Testing World . Between these features there is the one thing that many are waiting for: The Recording for Silverlight! Below you can read more about the grate features that will be released with “Feature Pack 2”, the list is taken from Brian Harry’s post that you can read here . Has Soon as this pack will be released I will let you know...