20 Nov
2007

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Architecture Edition

Are 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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19 Nov
2007

Visual Studio 2008 First Looks

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I just opened my first project in Visual Studio 2008. I just started a console application to play around with. The UI has received a little attention. You can see by the gradient colors on this properties dialog menu that someone on the Visual Studio team finally called someone over from the User Experience Group. […]

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19 Nov
2007

Visual Studio 2008 Install

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Have you ever actually watched the installer for Visual Studio? Take a look at this screen shot. What’s with the J. Crew model? Have you ever seen a developer that looks like this? Where’s the balding frumpiness of reality? Hell, this guy belongs in a Sears catalog. I could have a man crush here. OK, […]

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11 Nov
2007

Unit Testing Irritants in Visual Studio 2008

I have been delving into the unit testing capabilities of Visual Studio (sans NUnit), otherwise known as MSUnit. In truth, MSUnit is a name the community came up with. The entire contents of the unit testing framework are in this namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting Overall, there is more to the unit testing capabilities baked into the IDE […]

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