I gave a presentation on Visual Studio Team System last night to about 30 students at Wayne State University in Detroit.  I don’t think it was one of my better presentations, for a number of reasons, which I’ll lament here and attempt to improve in the future. First off, this was an earlier presentation than most of the INETA ...

http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=152&thread=82646I'm wrapping up some tests of AspAlliance Cache Manager (no URL yet) and wanted to ensure that my output was valid XHTML.  So I did some googling and found this thread which led me to create this technique in my unit test: private bool IsUrlValidXhtml(string ...

I've uploaded my presentations from last week's ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas to the ASPAlliance Resource Directory's Presentations area.  Enjoy!

VSTS originally used intuitive colors for code that was covered, code that was not covered, and code that was partially covered.  In beta 2, these was changed to a bunch of pastel colors, as others like Dave Donaldson notes.  Dave explains how to switch this back to the more obvious primary colors: To do this, go to Tools, Options, ...

Soma announces Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Beta 3 will be released in September.  The Beta 3 will feature a Go Live license, so organizations can immediately begin using the Team System features.  Release of TFS is slated for the first quarter of 2006, and all data in the Beta 3 edition will ...

See Day One. Didn't get a chance to post my notes for days two and three until now.  We spent some time looking at testing in general, and the theory of why to test and how testing relates to quality.  Briefly mentioned TDD and other related disciplines.  In VSTS, tests are code and are versioned along with the code.  The tool can ...

Cindy Brucato has begun an interesting lunchtime learning program at her workplace, which she's dubbed The Brown Bag Initiative (or Brown Bagging It) -- BBI.  Yesterday she updated this with a list of good webcasts to watch during these events, and since most of them looked interesting to me, I'm blogging it so I can find the ...