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Installation of Tfs Express and why I love tfspreview.com
Pratice what you preach. My advice is to add unittests with codecoverage to your (daily) build and make sure it’s above the threshold. To pratice this I installed Tfs Express this weekend. The installation was straight forward next-next-finish. But then … Continue reading
Posted in Tooling
Tagged live-id, msbuild, preview, SAAS, software as a service, team explorer, team foundation server, Team Foundation Service, tf30172, tfs, TFSPreview, unittest
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Recovery
The hard disk of my laptop died on me last week. Since I’ve ordered a new machine (see previous post) I wanted my system up-and-running without too much effort. An old disk fixed the hardware issue, now the software recovery. … Continue reading
Posted in Tooling
Tagged backup, bcdedit, checkout, Cloud, cloud drive, hardware issue, microsoft synctoy, recovery, SafeCopy, shelveset, software recovery, synctoy, Team Foundation, vhd
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Choose Your Own
My boss lets me choose my own device to work with. Given a budget, some basic rules, two default configurations and this employee is happy. But now the hard part: what do I choose? Most of the time I’m using … Continue reading
Posted in Tooling
Tagged choose your own, Core I5, cyo, default configurations, folio, hp, pcmark, probook, processor core, solid state drive, SSD, workhorse
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Code generation from Visual Studio UML class diagram
In the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft has put the Architecture feature. With this I can create Graphs, Layer and UML diagrams. The feature is readonly in the Premium edition, but I’m not sure it can generate code … Continue reading
Posted in Development
Tagged azure, class diagram, classdiagram, Code, codegeneration, DataContract, generate code, interface, servicecontract, serviceimplementation, T4, Tooling, UML, Visual Studio 2010, WCF, Windows Azure
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Executing Unittests in parallel
My machine has a multi core processor, but my unittests only run one at a time. In Visual Studio 2010 the option to use more than one core and run unittests in parallel is there, but well hidden in the … Continue reading
Posted in Test
Tagged cual-core, Hack, multi-core, parallel, parallelTestCount, Test, testsettings, Tooling, unittest, Visual Studio 2010, xml
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