Author Archives: erictummers

About erictummers

Working in a DevOps team is the best thing that happened to me. I like challenges and sharing the solutions with others. On my blog I’ll mostly post about my work, but expect an occasional home project, productivity tip and tooling review.

My Maintainable Automated UI Tests

Posted on February 9, 2014 by erictummers

Original post By Mehdi Khalili on 9 Oct 2013 hereI just modified it to best suit my needs. Mehdi Khalili uses Selenium webdriver to do an automated UI test. The key of the post is to see the test code … Continue reading →

Posted in Test | Tagged asp.net, coded UI test, CUIT, IISExpress, MVC4, selenium, unittest, xunit | 3 Comments

Week roundup

Posted on February 7, 2014 by erictummers

Here are the best articles I’ve read/seen last week: Over at Brit.co in the tech section I found CSS for Beginners: 10 Ways to Learn to Code. The unsplash.com link is very nice. Using Helpers to start your website before … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged coded UI test, css, git, helper, roundup, visual studio | Leave a comment

Visual Studio Online Project Portal

Posted on February 7, 2014 by erictummers

With visual studio online everybody has access to team foundation service without installing. It is software as a service. But there are some limitations. One is no integration with sharepoint for your team project portal. You can use some other … Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged sharepoint, software as a service, tfs, visual studio, visual studio online | Leave a comment

Remove titlebarbuttons from Visual Studio 2013

Posted on February 6, 2014 by erictummers

Hack the registery [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config\MainWindowFrameControls]. I removed the Feedback Button, UserNotifications Badge and User Information Card with the registry hack. There is an Option in Visual Studio to hide the Quick Launch or I could use the registry to hide that. And finally a clean development environment. Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged environment, Hack, IDE, registry, titlebarbuttons, visual studio | Leave a comment

Could not find a concrete type mapped to MappingAdded

Posted on February 2, 2014 by erictummers

In a handler I tried to publish an event. But the exception Could not find a concrete type mapped to MappingAdded is thrown.
The problem here is that FakeDbSet uses an older version of EntityFramework. Make sure all project reference the same EntityFramework version or remove your unneeded DbContext. Continue reading →

Posted in Development | Tagged .NET, Entity Framework, fakedbset, nservicebus, NuGet, xunit | Leave a comment