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"As a result of writing the post: Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager I asked one the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, to also look at one of the most requested Visual Studio Update 1 features - but an area I didn't have a post on yet: Grouping in the new Unit Test Explorer. He takes a look and by morning sends me this post and indicates he wants to do three more in this series! "

"JustMock Free Edition is a developer productivity tool designed to make it easy to create mock objects. JustMock Free Edition cuts your development time and helps you create better unit tests without requiring you to change your code. It allows you to perform fast and controlled tests that are independent of external dependencies like databases, web services, or proprietary code. "

"The fully integrated standalone wiki, and acceptance testing framework."

"Every couple of weeks on one of the forums someone will ask a question about how to restore a backup from SQL 2008 to SQL 2005. The answer to the question is always, you can't restore a backup to a lower version of SQL Server. If you need to migrate backwards it is an entirely manual process. I learned this unfortunate truth a few years ago after upgrading a development server to SQL Server 2005 ahead of upgrading the production server for testing by the developers of our eCommerce application. At the time there was a new database for another web project in development that didn't exist in production, which was on SQL 2000 still, and when I had to move it to QA, also on SQL 2000 still, what was originally planned as a backup/restore turned into a "What do I do now?" moment."

"ThoughtWorkers are passionate about technology. We build it, research it, test it, open source it, write about it, and constantly aim to improve it - for everyone. Our mission is to champion software excellence and revolutionize IT. We create and share the ThoughtWorks Technology Radar in support of that mission. The ThoughtWorks Technology Advisory Board, a group of senior technology leaders in ThoughtWorks, creates the radar. They meet regularly to discuss the global technology strategy for ThoughtWorks and the technology trends that significantly impact our industry. "

"Database development is many aspects behind in comparison to regular application development. If you look how database development is integrated with regular application development or development processes it becomes even more obvious that there is room for improvement in this area. When asked, you will find that many database developers are spending their valuable time writing, maintaining, and testing database deployment scripts. The practices may vary, some write them by hand, some use schema comparison tools to generate the script and modify that, and some went all the way to create their own tools to generate these kinds of deployment scripts."

"DBAs and developers alike find it hard to effectively develop, deploy and manage a data-tier application throughout its lifecycle. SQL Server developers today want to create a data-tier application they can test, declaratively deploy across multiple instances while the system deals with version upgrades. SQL Server DBAs on the other hand want to know deployment requirements a priori and they too want the system to perform some of the mechanical upgrade operations instead of managing data-tier applications via a bunch of scripts. In this video we will dive into Microsoft's investments in the SQL Server data-tier application space and demonstrate the concepts and tools that simplify development and deployment of data-tier applications using Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2008 R2."

"This release contains additional assertions on IEnumerable, String, and Type. Additionally, a helper method was added, AssertHelper.AssertFailed(), to allow consumers to create their own custom assertions."

"I couldn't find an example of doing AOP Method Interception using Ninject and Castle's DynamicProxy2 or LinFu DynamicProxy, so I consulted Ninject's Unit Tests and created my own sample. In the sample shown below, I will be using Castle's DynamicProxy2, but quite honestly I think you can use Linfu DynamicProxy by just swapping out the DynamicProxy2Module for the LinfuModule in the code below as well as referencing the Ninject.Integration.LinFu Assembly as opposed to the Ninject.Integration.DynamicProxy2 Assembly. By the way, there are some really good CodeProject article's on Linfu that I mentioned on PnPGuidance: LinFu Articles on CodeProject Well-Worth Reading."

"My workplace has been having issues with VS2010 picking up old assemblies since we have been using VS2010 on a complex services solution. The issue usually pops up when executing test runs with the built in support for MSTest. This occasionally happened in VS2008 but is much more prevalent in 2010. The scenario seems to be that somewhere between the IDE and MSTest is picking up assemblies from prior TestResults directories if the assembly can't be found in bin\Debug or bin\Release directories. This means that the normal clean operation under the build menu is not sufficient to get rid of this problem. Enter the sledgehammer. I wrote a little utility that will recursively go through each bin, obj and TestResults folder under the solution path and delete everything it can (including read-only files). Any exceptions encountered will be output to the console. The code itself is really simple."

"Closure Inspector is an extension to Firebug, the Firefox debugger extension. Closure Inspector adds three powerful features to Firebug: source mapping, improved stack trace display, and unit test integration. This document describes how to install and use Closure Inspector."

"I was astonished to be invited to what became the meeting that originated the Agile Manifesto because my work had always been based around building models. The Structured Development for Real-Time Systems trilogy with Paul Ward and the pair of Object-Oriented Analysis books with Sally Shlaer all focused on analysis and design, placing much less emphasis on the coding and testing favored by agile practitioners."

" Scott Allen explains how to create unit tests for applications making use of the ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1. "

"There can be a great difference in the performance of a particular routine in a test database, and in a fully loaded production system. When you hit performance problems in a database under load, and there is excessive locking and blocking, how can you determine exactly where the problems lie, in order to fix them? Read on..."

"Mighty Moose is from this point forward free. Not "free in beta" or "free with a bunch of functionality turned off" but free (license is being updated as I write this). We announced this rather quietly at NDC."

"Everyone seems to think that they are writing OO after all they are using OO languages such as Java, Python or Ruby. But if you exam the code it is often procedural in nature."