Yesterday Microsoft released the new version of the TFS Power tools . See what Brian Harry blogged about it here . First of all, the installation made simpler since you don’t have to uninstall previous version, just install new version over the old one. Only one thing  – the installation prompts that Windows Explorer process should be close. If you press Ignore reboot will be required. Anyway, if you kill the mentioned processes through Task manager, no need to reboot. Here some of the new Features...

Everyone who works with workflow designer (and if you are TFS Build Developer – you do it a lot ) encounter the problem with Workflow Designer slowness and crashes (happened to me like 20 times today ) . Today, Microsoft announce a patch for that ! This patch includes fixes to ASP.Net & Silverlight as well and other 35 issues and 6 features as you can find in KB 2468871 . Read more in Buck Hodges post . Grab it from Here .   Happy Building.

It was great!!! My first session was about the “Visual Studio Testing Tools” for better quality and my second session was about BI in the Service of the Tester. you can see my previus post regarding this event: "My Session in “Next Generation Testing with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” Tomorrow" You can download my Power Point Presentation from here . You can also watch the videos in this link: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/msdn/archive/2011/02/17/next-generation-testing-14-02-2011...

Tomorrow is a big day for me! I am about to give a session about testing with the Microsoft Testing Tools that were released with the Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010. Unfortunately the registration was closed a few days ago due to lake of sits . I apologize I know that many people couldn’t get a sit on time, some have personally called me but there is nothing I can do about it, we have saved the biggest room Microsoft has to offer. I will try to save another date for this event, I promise to publish...

I have been asked this question many times, the scenario is: Developer deletes a folder/branch/file etc. The developer checks in his changes The developer likes to see the deleted items to check there history for example There are other scenarios that will require this functionality. So how do we do it? Step 1: Launch Visual Studio 2010 or Team Explorer 2010 Step 2: Click Tools –> Options Step 3: Click Source Control Step 4: Click “Visual Studio Team Foundation” Step 5: Check the “Show deleted...

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!!!

A new Virtual Machine was released for evaluation purpose. The Virtual Machine is a preconfigured Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio with all the latest releases and patches. Download details pages: · Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Hyper-V) · Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Windows [7] Virtual PC) · Visual Studio 2010 RTM (Virtual PC 2007 SP1) Overview from the site: This virtual machine is pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010. It is designed to provide...

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...

Good news for WCF developers and testers , the tool that was released for Visual Studio 2008 that is generating automatic unit tests for WCF is now available for Visual Studio 2010. I can tell you that it made my life easier using it in Visual Studio 2008 and I believe that it will with the Visual Studio 2010 too… You can download it from codeplex: http://wcfloadtest.codeplex.com/ Main Functionality List: Replay of captured scenario in a unit test that can be included in a load test. Support for...