Tag: Visual Studio

Oct 9, 2019 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was teaching our new SSDT2019 class today and, while discussing SQL Server Unit Testing, I was asked why the default Row Count test condition only tested for equality (and not less than, greater …

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Wassup Team Room?

Sep 30, 2016 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

According to Microsoft’s official definition, Team Rooms, like chat rooms, “provide teams with a space to discuss work in progress, ask questions, share status, and clarify issues that …

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Storyboard your ideas for free

Dec 15, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Update (April 2016): Microsoft has released Office Integration 2015 Update 2. With the recent release of Team Foundation Server Update 1, Microsoft has enabled all users to create storyboards in …

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Turn off the Diagnostics Tools window in Visual Studio 2015

Aug 17, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’m sure it’s awesome. I’m sure it doesn’t impact performance (much). I’m sure my apps would be more awesome if I used it, but … … today I want to turn off …

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Visual Studio Live! in Austin

Jun 3, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Update: Added additional links for my same talks at VSLive! in San Francisco today (17 June, 2015) Thank you to those who attended my two talks today. I enjoyed our conversation about Technical Debt …

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Use Excel to Create Repetitive Work Items

Feb 24, 2015 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Teams often ask me for any shortcuts to periodically creating the same work items, such as for each sprint or release. In other words, they want to create the same Product Backlog Item or Task (but …

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A unique load testing experiment

Oct 21, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most of the guidance you’ll find about Visual Studio Ultimate Load Tests suggests that they are only for load testing Web Performance tests. Actually, they can be used to load other types of …

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The ProcessTemplateEditorPackage package did not load correctly

Feb 26, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Yesterday, while using Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 to customize a process template, I ran into this error … As suggested, I checked the ActivityLog.xml, but it didn’t offer anything more …

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Quality Enablement through Agile Testing

Nov 6, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you for attending last week’s Quality Enablement through Agile Testing event put on by Microsoft here in Boise. I hope you had fun exploring the testing tools in Visual Studio and Team …

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