What are the steps to get Team Foundation Server running unit tests when a given build runs? What are the caveats / pitfalls / workarounds a dev or sysadmin should be aware of when setting up a TFS server to do this for the first time? What are common troubleshooting steps for unit test problems during builds? ...
I've got some legacy software that I'd like to involve in an automated unit test (for testing network protocol compatibility) and because this software is old and runs in an outdated environment I'd like to encapsulate it in a virtual machine. What is the best way to control a virtual machine from a Visual Studio unit test? Once I have t...
Installing microsoft designer from the network and I get an error: Setup cannot find SharePointDesigner.WW\spdww.cab. Browser to a valid installation source, and then click OK. But there is no such file, it is an endless loop. How can I get the installation to continue and finish? Or better yet, how do I get the 60 day download to accep...
I would think maybe it might make MORE sense to put 64bit apps into "Program Files (x64)" and leave 32bit apps to run in "Program Files" .. maybe I'm too dumb to get it... EDIT: I have a batch file that need to run FLEX compiler. in X64 that program is in "Program Files (x86)" on Vista 32 bit it's in "Program Files" .. environment varia...
What are profound advantages that one get when using COM for developing components over the WCF ?? Is there anything that can be done with COM and not with WCF ?? ...
Hello everyone, I'm trying to develop some SharePoint workflows for the company I work for, and I'm not too familiar with the ins and outs of the technology. Normally when I want to familiarize myself with something, I just play with it, look at the properties, find all the methods, etc. When I fire up Visual Studio and try to creat...
Update: A 4.x.x vs a 5.x.x became the least of my worries when I discovered that not all mail servers return errors according to the "standard". I'm opting to handle all types of returned mail as failures now but I'm leaving this question here in case it gets an answer and helps someone else. I've been tasked with writing a program to r...
When browsing the cube in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005, I would like to peek at the MDX (supposedly) queries generated by client access tools such as Excel. Is there a tool or method that enables me to do just that? I'm really looking for something like Oracle's v$sessions -- I know about sp_who and sp_who2 for the relati...
So with the recent news that Microsoft Skydrive is going to get bumped to 25GB of storage per account, does anyone know if SkyDrive has an API? (And if so, where are the docs?) ...
Hi guys, At home and work I use VS2008. As I've only ever used Visual Studio for .NET development, I would like to expand my horizons and see what else there is on offer as an alternative to it. So what in your opinion is the best alternative to Visual Studio? Is there a viable alternative? ...
Windows Azure looks like a promising cloud platform. The big unknown right now is the pricing model. Microsoft says that they are still working on that, but it will be competitive. What do you think would make a good pricing model? Let's hope that Microsoft will take note of what a bunch of programmers want. Update: Azure Pricing:...
I would like to do the following: when a Sales person assigns a custom entity (let's call it 'Primary Expertise') to an Opportunity in MS CRM 4.0, the system would share the Opportunity with the user that is defined as the Owner of the associated 'Primary Expertise' record. I would like to do it automatically via workflow but cannot fi...
MS is calling Azure an Operating System. To me, it feels much more like a framework. I am having a bit of trouble defining the two separately. I have a general intuition, but I am not articulate enough to really say if Azure is really an OS or just a framework sitting on top of Operating Systems. ...
I know it is not programming question, but thought it will be useful to many of us. I am looking for Microsoft certification exam vouchers; if someone knows can you point me to the link or place? ...
Does anyone know if you can use subversion to manage Axapta projects? We're currently on 3.0 which has no support for Team Foundation Server, but would like a repository like SVN. We also have several C# projects that need a repository as well. ...
Is it possible to make Virtual Earth pushpin infobox display respond from onclick instead of mouseover? Currently I'm using something like this: ... var pin = new VEShape( VEShapeType.Pushpin, [location] ); pin.SetCustomIcon(icon_url); pin.SetTitle(title); pin.SetDescription...
On Windows XP when a process crashes, we get a dialog box with a link: "To view technical information about the error report, click here." The "click here" link brings up a whole lot of information in a window, but no obvious way to save it to a file. Is there a way? It would be very nice to be able to send that data to several differe...
As a programmer, I am first and foremost interested in Architecture, Data persistence, analysis, testing and programming. You get the idea. I happen to like Microsoft's tools for developers, like .NET, VS and ASP.NET MVC. I have used SQL Server a lot. I also like other tools like Java or MySQL. But when I look at jobs at .NET shops (b...
I am having some Internet Explorer 7 (and 8 beta) browser-specific problems with a link to an MP3. When I click the link in IE7, a new browser window opens and the quicktime plugin tries to play the file. Instead ofthe player, I see a faded Quicktime icon with a question mark in the center. There is nothing wrong with the file. The ...
I'm looking for an explanation or good free online resources about the organization of memory and memory management in Windows systems. ...