Since I installed Outlook 2010 technical preview I have not been able to search emails using the ‘search mail’ boxes in Outlook (which links into Windows desktop search). I had not realised how much I used the feature until it did not work. When I tried a search I was shown a dialog saying there was 40000+ items waiting to be indexed, and this number was not changing. It seemed that the indexing of Outlook contents had stopped....
You can connect a Visual Studio 2008 IDE instance to a TFS 2010 server, as detailed in Martin Hinshelwood’s blog, but I cannot stress enough you have to have VS2008 SP1 installed. If you don’t, you get an error dialog when you enter the URL for the TFS server saying the URL contains invalid characters. This seems a simple rule, but as I found today it is easy to not realise your PC is not patched....
With all this coverage of the moon landings I am surprised that the other major news item of 40 years ago today has not been covered – the Fennell family moved house. I ask you just what are the priorities of the news media?
I downloaded and installed the Office 2010 technical preview today. All seemed to go OK (after I realised I could only do an in place upgrade from 32bit Office 2007 –> 32bit Office 2010), once the upgrade was done I could load Word and using our VSTO based document templates all seemed to work fine. However when I tried Outlook I got a problem. On the first loading it took a while, telling me it was doing something to 40K+ items, presumably checking the local OST file, but then seemed to load OK....
Thanks to everyone who turned up for my presentation on Typemock and Sharepoint in Glasgow last night. I have just upload my slides onto the Black Marble site. As the session was quite demo driven the slides don’t offer the best code samples. If you want to experiment yourselves I would suggest you look at my related posts on this blog and remember if you don’t have Typemock you can download trial versions of all the products I used from www....
On Wednesday the 15th this week I will be speaking at Scottish Developers on developer testing of SharePoint. This is a free event so please come along if you are interested and in the area. If you are not able to make it to Glasgow but are interested in the subject then why not check out Typemock’s free live webinars also on the 15th. .
VS2010 has excellent new features to assist the tester in general, and specifically in the area of manual testing. One of these is the ability to video a manual test run; to get this to work you have to have the Windows Media Encoder 9 installed as well as the VS2010 Test Runner . If you don’t have it installed and try to use the video feature you get a dialog that warns you this component is missing and would you like to either download it or disable video recording feature for this test run....
Ben Hall has written an interesting post on creating a testing framework with MEF. As Ben said it is more a learning exercise for MEF than a useful product but it certainly show show the ease you can add meta data and reflection like functionality to your codebase. Wish it had been about when I wrote GUITester
I have posted in the past about the TFS 2005 and 2008 Process Template eScrum from Microsoft; a template we use internally for a number of Agile projects. Well today it has been removed from the Microsoft download sites. It was decided a while ago that it would not be updated to support TFS2010 and has been removed to avoid any confusion over whether it is support or not by Microsoft (FYI it was never officially supported anyway as it did not originate inside the TFS team)...
On my development PC I had a 2005 instance of SQLExpress that was installed as part of the VS2008 setup. I thought I had upgraded it when I put on the SQL 2008 Management tools and/or VS2010 beta, but it seems I didn’t. I thought I would try the new Microsoft Web Platform Installer, but this also thought I had done the upgrade to 2008, I suspect due to the fact I had the 2008 management tools....