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  • Three possible causes for TFS to Project Server sync “failure”

    If you didn’t know already, there is a connector from Microsoft that lets you synchronize work items in TFS with enterprise project plans in Microsoft Project Server.  I’ve been working with this synchronization feature for a project that I’m doing and ran into a couple of “user error” problems.  Put another way, everything was configured…

  • Three possible causes for TFS to Project Server sync “failure”

    If you didn’t know already, there is a connector from Microsoft that lets you synchronize work items in TFS with enterprise project plans in Microsoft Project Server.  I’ve been working with this synchronization feature for a project that I’m doing and ran into a couple of “user error” problems.  Put another way, everything was configured…

  • Disable REST WebRequest URL caching on WP7 Mango

    I’m writing an application for Windows Phone 7 Mango that should be hitting the marketplace shortly.  The application allows you to access the real-time feeds that report MBTA bus locations and predictions for when buses will arrive at a particular stop.  These feeds are exposed as REST services.  Yesterday, I found that I wasn’t able…

  • Speaking at DevTeach Ottawa: November 2 through November 4, 2011

    Some more news.  I’ll be speaking at DevTeach in Ottawa, ON.  The schedule isn’t 100% set in stone yet but the conference runs from 11/2/2011 through 11/4/2011 and I’ll be giving two talks. Here are the abstracts: Too Slow: Use VS2010 Profiling & Load Testing to Manage Performance Issues You thought you knew how to…

  • Speaking at VSLive Redmond on October 20, 2011

    Updated 10/24/2011: the slides and code samples for these talks are available here. FYI, I’ll be speaking at VSLive in Redmond, Washington on October 20th, 2011.  While I’m there, I’ll be giving two talks: 1) “Team Foundation Server 2010 Builds: Understand, Configure, and Customize” and 2) “Design For Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring, and User Interfaces.”…

  • Utility to Manually Refresh the TFS2010 Warehouse

    Every once in a while, you may find that you need to manually refresh your Team Foundation Server 2010’s data warehouse.  You’ll know you need to do that manual refresh when your TFS2010 reports start tossing off errors like “The Team System cube either does not exist or has not been processed” or “An error…

  • Coded UI Test Utilities for ComboBox, ListBox, and CheckBox Controls

    I’ve been helping one of my customers to develop and roll out Visual Studio 2010 Coded UI Tests for their applications.  After we went through the initial round of training and we got down to recording some tests, they started cranking out a series of really good questions about how to extend the recorded tests…

  • Microsoft Dev Boston meeting on 9/8/2011: “Top 10 Mistakes in Unit Testing”

    First off, I’d like to let you know that Beantown .NET is getting a name change.  The new name is “Microsoft Dev Boston” and the new website is www.devboston.org.   We’ll also be transitioning away from the manual email blasts over the next few months and doing everything through Meetup.com.  So what does this mean for…

  • Microsoft Dev Boston meeting on 9/8/2011: “Top 10 Mistakes in Unit Testing”

    First off, I’d like to let you know that Beantown .NET is getting a name change.  The new name is “Microsoft Dev Boston” and the new website is www.devboston.org.   We’ll also be transitioning away from the manual email blasts over the next few months and doing everything through Meetup.com.  So what does this mean for…

  • Conflicts between [CodedUITest] and [UnitTest] attributes cause Coded UI tests to fail with NullReferenceException.

    File this under “Programmer Error / Duh.”  I was refactoring a bunch of Coded UI tests to use a base class for common functionality.  I did something dumb and managed to break all my Coded UI tests in a way that was difficult to diagnose. Symptom: NullReferenceExceptions coming from Coded UI test code in UIMap.designer.cs…

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