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Verifying non–public methods have been called using Typemock Isolator in VB.Net

I am currently writing some training material for a client on mocking showing how life is so much easier if software is designed with testing in mind. As part of this material I showing that though we aim for nice design patterns which allow testing we have to deal with legacy systems that were not designed this way. However, there are tools that allow us to write unit tests for poorly designed (with testing in mind) legacy systems, specifically Typemock Isolator....

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Problem setting an email alert for the TFS 2010 Power Tools backup

One of the very useful features of the TFS 2010 Power Tools is that it provides a backup wizard, great for teams using TFS who don’t have much SQL/IT Pro experience. Whist setting this up on a server I hit an interesting gotta with sending alerts. This TFS server in question was configured to enable SMTP alerting (via the TFS Administration Console) and this was working During the backup configuration wizard you have the option to be send email if the backup job fails....

TF80070 when loading a team query in MS Project

I create a number of task work items in TFS 2010 using a list in Excel. This all appeared to work OK, and I could run a work item query in Team Explorer and see all my new work items. However then I tried to open the work item query in Project I got a TF80070 error. It loaded the work items up a point in the list then failed and showed error dialog....

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