OK, I finally upgraded to VS 2008 and am giving it a whirl. And this is Visual Studio Team Systems Development Edition. So some things may not apply. But before I really begin, I should note a few things: I’m not using any C# 3.0 features yet. That means no LINQ, no Lambda, no Anonymous […]
Read MoreSo there I am coding along with Unit Testing awesomeness and I decide I want to to try the VS2008 code coverage tool. A quick visit to Test > Edit Test Run Configurations > Local Test Run to turn on code coverage on my product assembly and I am in the money, or so I […]
Read MoreI recently started and participated in a threaded discussion on the LeanAgileScrum Yahoo Group. Although the complete thread is available here, I will condense it here to share what I consider some genuine highlights of this discussion involving a sub-thread with non other than Mary Poppendieck. Yes, that Mary Poppendieck. Anyway, I have heard much […]
Read MoreThis post seems appropriate to counter my original post, Unit Testing Irritants in Visual Studio 2008. F5, You Moron Firstly, as pointed out by the mysterious Richard in a comment on my original post, you can execute your Test Project (and therefore all unit tests in it) by setting it to your default project and […]
Read MoreDuh. And to think this came from Apple. Well, RealTek, actually. Seriously, though. Let’s take a lesson from this. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. My wife reminds me of this frequently so I admit to being guilty of this from time to time. Like the bed I made for us when we […]
Read MoreIf you live in the Boise or south western Idaho area, you can get a free copy of Visual Studio 2008 Pro. How? By attending this event, the VS2008 Install Fest. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032360765&Culture=en-US The deal is, you show up at Overland Park Cinemas in Boise on the afternoon of December 6th and install VS2008 and you […]
Read MoreThis is a shout out to my homies on the Vista Backup and Restore Center Team (if such a team exists). I never would have believed it would work so well, and it did. I am running Vista + Mac OS X with Boot Camp. I installed VS 2008 Architecture Edition Monday only to learn […]
Read MoreAre ya ready for this? DOES NOT COME WITH UNIT TESTING FEATURES! Seriously. Microsoft made a big deal out of putting the unit test capabilities into the professional version of VS (Team System), but they left it out of the Architecture Edition? I guess this means I should have more time to be Architecty since […]
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