Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 released

A new release of Community TFS Build Extensions have shipped. You can find more details on Mike Fourie’s blog or at the project home on Codeplex

December 23, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Don’t need to go into work at all

Today we got Direct Access working; I can now access all the features of our TFS Lab Management instance from home. No more remoting onto on box to hop to another. I never need to go to the office again!

December 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows update now includes Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, so expect a slow shutdown when it applies

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is now coming down as part of Windows Update. Watch out for this, my PC has just taken best part of two hours to reboot as it decided to apply this service pack, even though I had already applied it manually when I built the PC

December 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Debugging CodedUi Tests when launching test as a different user

If you are working with CodedUI tests in Visual Studio you sometimes get unexpected results, such as the wrong field be selected in replays. When trying to work out what has happened the logging features are really useful. These are probably already switched on, but you can check by following the details in this post. Assuming you make no logging level changes from the default, if you look in the...

December 21, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

DevOps are testers best placed to fill this role?

DevOps seems to be the new buzz role in the industry at present. People who can bridge the gap between the worlds of development and IT pros. Given my career history this could be a description of the path I took. I have done both, and now sit in the middle covering ALM consultancy where I work with both roles. You can’t avoid a bit of development and a bit of IT pro work when installing and configuring TFS with some automated build and deployment....

December 16, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell