My video on using Team Explorer Everywhere is published on Channel9

I recently recorded a video on using Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere, this has today been published in the UK Techdays section of Channel 9. Hope you find it useful.

April 24, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Back from holiday to find my DDD Southwest session has been accepted

Got back from holiday today to find my DDDSW (26th May) session on unit testing in Visual Studio 11 has been accepted. I see the event is already full, but hope to see some of you there

April 16, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for problem faking two SPLists in a single unit test with Typemock Isolator has been released

A blogged a while ago about a problem faking multiple SPList with Typemock Isolator in a single test. With the release of Typemock Isolator 7.0.4.0 you no longer have to use the workaround I documented. You can now use the code if the originally planned, and it works as expected 1: public partial class TestPage : System.Web.UI.Page 2: { 3: public TestPage() 4: { 5: var fakeWeb = Isolate.Fake.Instance<SPWeb>(); 7: Isolate....

April 2, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

More community TFS build extensions documentation

As part of the on-going effort in documentation I have recently published more documentation for the TFS build extension project activities AssemblyInfo CodeMetric (updated) and CodeMetricHistory File Twitter

March 29, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Unit testing in VS11Beta and getting your tests to run on the new TFSPreview build service

One of my favourite new features in VS11 is that the unit testing is pluggable. You don’t have to use MSTest, you can use any test framework that an adaptor is available for (at the release of the beta this meant the list of framworks on Peter Provost’s blog, but I am sure this will grow). So what does this mean and how do you use it? Add some tests First it is worth noting that you no longer need to use a test project to contain your MSTest, you can if you want, but you don’t need to....

March 27, 2012 · 4 min · Richard Fennell