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Test plan documentation for Microsoft Test Manager plans

Don’t know how I missed this last month, but the test team has created a Power Tool that creates...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/26/2010

Slides from the Jacksonville Ultimate Event

Thanks to everyone who attended the Ultimate Event yesterday. Great turnout, and excellent...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/24/2010

Slides from the FT Lauderdale Ultimate Event

Thanks to everyone who attended the event last week. What a fabulous turnout! Here are links to the...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/18/2010

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

It was made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday, and will be available to the general public on...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/09/2010

See you at the South Florida Code Camp, Feb 27

It’s going to be a day-long total geekfest with12 tracks, 6 sessions in each tracks. Agenda:...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/09/2010

VS 2010 testing videos

Wow! I just ran across a link to this, a series of videos on coded UI tests, test management, etc.,...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 01/26/2010

Trying to provide feedback about Live Mesh, but. . .

When I click on the Feedback link, check out the screen that appears: Heh. Guess the Live Mesh folks...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 01/22/2010

Tampa 2010 Ultimate Event

[update: Jan 22, 2010] Added link to Oleg’s “No more ‘No Repro’” slides...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 01/20/2010

Setting up Video Recording in Microsoft Test and Lab Manager – Vs 2010 Beta 2

I had to set up a new VHD image earlier this week. When it came time to configure the Video...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 12/30/2009

Exercise – getting a jump on the new year

Over the weekend I finally went for a bike ride: just over 12 miles, averaging only 17 mph. And I...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 12/28/2009

VHDTool – special sauce for VHD disks

Dear Reader, have you ever wished you could resize – grow – a fixed-sized VHD disk? Earlier today I...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 12/28/2009

Test Impact View in VS 2010 Beta 2

There are a lot of blog postings around that tell you how to set up Test Impact View for VS 2010....

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 11/25/2009

24 sessions on SharePoint this Saturday! (November 14)

If you’re into SharePoint, curious about it, have never heard of it, this is the day for you....

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 11/12/2009

Do you have a .NET story?

Tell it and you could score big-time. See https://www.mydotnetstory.com/submit.aspx for details.

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 11/09/2009

Using VS 2010 B2? Brian Harry would like to hear from you

If you’re using Visual Studio Beta 2, Brian Harry would love to hear from you. He’s most interested...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/28/2009

Compatibility matrix for TFS and Team Explorer versions

The latest from the Team WIT Tools blog is an excellent post about the compatibility between Team...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/20/2009

Slide deck from Orlando SQLSaturday! session

Thanks to everyone who attended my database change management talk at this past weekend’s...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/19/2009

It’s Here: VS 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2

MSDN subscribers get first dibs through MSDN Subscriber Downloads; everyone else will be able to...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/19/2009

Orlando SQLSaturday! October 17, 2009

The next SQLSaturday! is going to be in Orlando on October 17 at Seminole Community College, 100...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/05/2009

Chat with the TFS Setup and Admin Team regarding TFS 2010

From Charles Sterling’s blog, a real-time chat with the TFS Setup and Admin team: The Team...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/05/2009

Video recording – overview of Team System 2008

Here’s a good overview video of Team System 2008, recorded by Doug Seven of Microsoft. It’s in a ZIP...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/05/2009

Quick hit: Wireless network and Hyper-V

Ran across this helpful blog post by John Paul Cook as I was looking for a way to use my wireless...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009

Quick hit: Team Foundation Server security

Just a quick note to myself about security in TFS 2010… How to grant permissions to use Reporting...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009

So you want to be a programmer?

If you do, Jesse Liberty has some excellent advice for you on his blog. It’s never too late to get...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009

Your home for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0

Where should you start? I recommend the Visual Studio 2010 developer center at MSDN....

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009

Quick hit: MSI installation inside VPC 2007 SP1

I ran into an issue a few months ago while I was trying to install the TFS Administration Tool...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009

Easy TFS Installation???

If you subscribe to Brian Harry’s blog, then you already know about this. If you don’t subscribe to...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/01/2009

Installing TFS 2010 Beta 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM

If you want to install TFS 2010 Beta 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 release candidate or the full...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/29/2009

Profiling ASP.NET web applications

If you ever need to profile your ASP.NET web application, you can take advantage of the profiling...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/29/2009

Let’s see which one gets more hits…

A little experiment to see if my new blog on https://blogs.msdn.com/jimblizzard gets more hits than...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/26/2009

Hyper-V question of the day…

When you tell Hyper-V Manager to “Delete Snapshot Subtree…” how do you know if it’s started doing...

Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/26/2009

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