One of the coolest feature of Database Projects in VS2008 is the ability to synchronize the database project with a physical instance of SQL server. This is useful if not all people from the team have the ability to run a database project (this is solved in vs2010 where database project are available even in [...]
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If you want to try VS2010 RC and TFS2010 with a virtual machine that has already everything preconfigured, and also have some nice hands on lab covering ALM: Software quality: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 2010 Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 2010 Introduction to Coded UI Tests [...]
If you know TFS 2008 API and try to connect to a tfs 2010 you could probably start with this snippet, but you will get a 404 exception, telling you that the tfs is not available. TeamFoundationServer tfs = new TeamFoundationServer("http://vs2010beta2:8080/tfs", new NetworkCredential("dorikr", "P2ssw0rd")); tfs.EnsureAuthenticated(); The problem is originated by the new architecture of tfs2010, [...]
One of the most exiting stuff of TFS is the ability to use API to access it, that gave possibilities to people outside MSFT to create tools. One tool to keep at look at is the TFS integration platform, still in very alpha version, but that promises a lot of exiting stuff. I decided to [...]
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I’m creating some template in SCVMM to be used with lab management, I’ve created a windows XP client machine, joined to the domain, installed and configured Test Agent and finally I used SCVMM to convert the machine to a template. The process finish with an error Could not reset local Administrator password on WinXPIE8 to [...]
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