Amit Chatterjee's Blog
Visual Studio, Development and Testing, Virtualization, and other topics
Unit Testing the Windows Phone 7 applications
It’s been a long while since my last blog post. With some additional responsibilities at work,...
Date: 06/26/2011
Visual Studio ALM vNext announced at TechEd 2011, Atlanta
I am very excited – we just announced the vision for Application Life Cycle Management (ALM) in the...
Date: 05/18/2011
Building Windows Phone 7 User Interface with Expression Blend
Microsoft Expression Blend is a great tool for designing user interfaces. Expression Blend 4 for...
Date: 05/11/2011
Extending the Chronometer Windows Phone 7 app – introducing NuGet, Pivot, and the TimeSpanPicker control!
I am back to coding this weekend, and would like to add a second feature to the Chronometer...
Date: 05/01/2011
Continuing with the Windows Phone applications–.NET Serialization
The Chronometer application I have been building for Windows Phone 7 is coming along nicely! This...
Date: 04/23/2011
Building a Windows Phone 7 Application–Data Binding and Persistence!
The IPLT20 cricket championship is currently in progress – this means there is a lot of cricket on...
Date: 04/16/2011
Windows Phone 7 app: Adding “portrait”/“landscape” modes to Chronometer
This one is a short update to the Windows 7 Phone application that I have been building and blogging...
Date: 04/07/2011
Building a Windows Phone 7 Application
It’s a lazy Saturday afternoon, and was the perfect time for me to do something that I have been...
Date: 03/26/2011
Test and Lab Management changes in Visual Studio Service Pack 1 release
As you know, it has now been a couple of weeks since we released the Visual Studio Service...
Date: 03/24/2011
Parallelism: In the Cloud, Cluster and Client
Recently I had the opportunity to keynote at the Intel Tech Days conference, and I chose to talk...
Date: 12/18/2010
Eurostar 2010 at Copenhagen – Cool show, beautiful city, freezing weather!
I enjoyed my visit to Eurostar last year, and this year’s conference in Copenhagen was a very...
Date: 12/10/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta Released–information on Test and Lab Management Changes
The Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta is now ready for download! General availability as well...
Date: 12/09/2010
Eurostar 2010 in Copenhagen: November 29–December 2
Eurostar – Europe’s largest conference for testers – is being hosted in...
Date: 11/26/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 released–new set of Testing capabilities
I am very happy to announce that we have just released Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 –...
Date: 11/16/2010
Archie!
August has been a emotional roller coaster of a month for me. It started on an extremely happy note....
Date: 08/28/2010
Watch the Lab Management announcement video!
As I had written in my last post, on August 4th we announced the final release of Lab Management in...
Date: 08/06/2010
Final Release of Visual Studio Lab Management announced!
Just a short while ago at the VS Live event in Seattle, Dave Mendlen – Senior Director of...
Date: 08/04/2010
The Eyjafjallajökull effect
No – I don’t quite know how to pronounce the name of this now-famous mountain, but it sure has...
Date: 04/18/2010
VS 2010 RC is ready for general download
The Visual Studio 2010 RC release is now available for general download! You can download the bits...
Date: 02/11/2010
Now the Lab Management part of the Dogfooding story ….
In my last post I talked about how the Visual Studio Test and Lab Management teams are dogfooding...
Date: 02/07/2010
Dogfooding Visual Studio Test and Lab Management Products ….
Dogfooding is a rich tradition at Microsoft. It essentially stands for “eating your own dogfood”....
Date: 02/04/2010
Beautiful Stockholm!
I just got back from a week's trip to Stockholm, Sweden. This was my first trip to the city, and I...
Date: 12/07/2009
Have you tried out the Lab Management Product in the VS 2010 Beta 2 release?
Have you tried out the Lab Management product that is part of the Visual Studio 21010 Beta 2...
Date: 11/28/2009
In Stockholm the next few days ...
I am travelling to Stockholm and will spend the week there meeting customers and talking about the...
Date: 11/28/2009
What’s new in Test and Lab Management in VS 2010 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now live, and we have updated the Beta2 landing page to point to the...
Date: 10/23/2009
Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available!
I am very excited that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is now available to our customers for testing and...
Date: 10/20/2009
Is this world a giant Load Test in action?
Next week I am on the road to meet a few customers and discuss with them the Test offerings that my...
Date: 09/20/2009
Lab Management Tutorials and Manual Testing Video
Greetings! It has been a while since the last post – I and my team have been preoccupied with work...
Date: 06/13/2009
The Lab Management Product – An Overview …
A lot is going on. The VSTS 2010 Beta 1 bits are out (as I had noted in my last post) and with that...
Date: 05/24/2009
VSTS 2010 Beta 1 download now available for everyone …
The VS 2010 Beta 1, the VSTS 2010 Beta1, and the .NET Framework Beta 1 is now available for all to...
Date: 05/21/2009
Announcement MSDN subscribers: VSTS 2010 Beta 1 now available!
The Beta 1 download of VSTS 2010, along with Beta 1 bits for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0, are...
Date: 05/19/2009
Reporting on Test Management Data
You have been following along the innovative set of features and capabilities that we are providing...
Date: 05/18/2009
Official Names for the 2010 Test Products now announced!
This is an exciting day for me and my team. We have just announced the official names for the 2010...
Date: 05/14/2009
A Side Show: Back from the Power Lab at Cape Cod, MA
So I have been incommunicado for a while, though for a specific reason. I was out for a week, at...
Date: 05/09/2009
Diagnostic Data Adapters: Changing how Developers and Testers work together (Part 2 of 2 - The Diagnostic Trace Collector)
This post finishes up the two part topic on Diagnostic Data Adapters in VS 2010, and how they help...
Date: 04/21/2009
Diagnostic Data Adapters: Changing how Developers and Testers work together (Part 1 of 2 - The Test Impact Collector)
Last time I talked about remote execution and introduced the concept of Diagnostic Data Adapters in...
Date: 04/11/2009
Remote Execution and Data Collection
As promised, I will spend a few posts talking to you about remote execution and data collection. So...
Date: 03/28/2009
How far are we into the “Rethinking Software Testing” series?
I started the series on “Rethinking Software Testing” in December 2008, and in the past few months...
Date: 03/25/2009
Coded UI Test
In the previous post, you saw how the Manual Testing has been made really easy with Camano. As I had...
Date: 03/14/2009
The Microsoft Test Runner – innovation for the Generalist Tester
It’s a very busy phase for us at work. The entire team is busy stabilizing our products for the...
Date: 02/28/2009
Test planning using Camano
The concept of a test plan Just like architects plan and document the design and requirements of...
Date: 02/17/2009
Check out the new VSTS (Team System) web site ...
In the last several weeks I have been sharing with you details about the exciting test products we...
Date: 02/14/2009
Visual Studio Team Test Edition wins STP Magazine's Tester’s Choice poll …
In my last post I had talked in details about the Load Testing feature of Visual Studio Team System,...
Date: 02/07/2009
Web and Load Testing with Visual Studio Team System
Continuing the series on Testing with Visual Studio Team System, I devote this blog to our Web and...
Date: 01/29/2009
Unit Testing
Greetings! Hope you have had a great start to the New Year! I am happy to continue the series on...
Date: 01/15/2009
Rethinking Testing – Dev Test Challenges
In my last post, I had mentioned that I would pick a specific area of testers challenges and share...
Date: 12/31/2008