Jim Blizzard's Blog
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Test plan documentation for Microsoft Test Manager plans
Don’t know how I missed this last month, but the test team has created a Power Tool that creates...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/26/2010
Slides from the Jacksonville Ultimate Event
Thanks to everyone who attended the Ultimate Event yesterday. Great turnout, and excellent...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/24/2010
Slides from the FT Lauderdale Ultimate Event
Thanks to everyone who attended the event last week. What a fabulous turnout! Here are links to the...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/18/2010
Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
It was made available to MSDN subscribers yesterday, and will be available to the general public on...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/09/2010
See you at the South Florida Code Camp, Feb 27
It’s going to be a day-long total geekfest with12 tracks, 6 sessions in each tracks. Agenda:...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 02/09/2010
VS 2010 testing videos
Wow! I just ran across a link to this, a series of videos on coded UI tests, test management, etc.,...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 01/26/2010
Trying to provide feedback about Live Mesh, but. . .
When I click on the Feedback link, check out the screen that appears: Heh. Guess the Live Mesh folks...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 01/22/2010
Tampa 2010 Ultimate Event
[update: Jan 22, 2010] Added link to Oleg’s “No more ‘No Repro’” slides...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 01/20/2010
Setting up Video Recording in Microsoft Test and Lab Manager – Vs 2010 Beta 2
I had to set up a new VHD image earlier this week. When it came time to configure the Video...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 12/30/2009
Exercise – getting a jump on the new year
Over the weekend I finally went for a bike ride: just over 12 miles, averaging only 17 mph. And I...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 12/28/2009
VHDTool – special sauce for VHD disks
Dear Reader, have you ever wished you could resize – grow – a fixed-sized VHD disk? Earlier today I...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 12/28/2009
Test Impact View in VS 2010 Beta 2
There are a lot of blog postings around that tell you how to set up Test Impact View for VS 2010....
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 11/25/2009
24 sessions on SharePoint this Saturday! (November 14)
If you’re into SharePoint, curious about it, have never heard of it, this is the day for you....
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 11/12/2009
Do you have a .NET story?
Tell it and you could score big-time. See https://www.mydotnetstory.com/submit.aspx for details.
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 11/09/2009
Using VS 2010 B2? Brian Harry would like to hear from you
If you’re using Visual Studio Beta 2, Brian Harry would love to hear from you. He’s most interested...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/28/2009
Compatibility matrix for TFS and Team Explorer versions
The latest from the Team WIT Tools blog is an excellent post about the compatibility between Team...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/20/2009
Slide deck from Orlando SQLSaturday! session
Thanks to everyone who attended my database change management talk at this past weekend’s...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/19/2009
It’s Here: VS 2010 Beta 2 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2
MSDN subscribers get first dibs through MSDN Subscriber Downloads; everyone else will be able to...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/19/2009
Orlando SQLSaturday! October 17, 2009
The next SQLSaturday! is going to be in Orlando on October 17 at Seminole Community College, 100...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/05/2009
Chat with the TFS Setup and Admin Team regarding TFS 2010
From Charles Sterling’s blog, a real-time chat with the TFS Setup and Admin team: The Team...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/05/2009
Video recording – overview of Team System 2008
Here’s a good overview video of Team System 2008, recorded by Doug Seven of Microsoft. It’s in a ZIP...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/05/2009
Quick hit: Wireless network and Hyper-V
Ran across this helpful blog post by John Paul Cook as I was looking for a way to use my wireless...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009
Quick hit: Team Foundation Server security
Just a quick note to myself about security in TFS 2010… How to grant permissions to use Reporting...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009
So you want to be a programmer?
If you do, Jesse Liberty has some excellent advice for you on his blog. It’s never too late to get...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009
Your home for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0
Where should you start? I recommend the Visual Studio 2010 developer center at MSDN....
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009
Quick hit: MSI installation inside VPC 2007 SP1
I ran into an issue a few months ago while I was trying to install the TFS Administration Tool...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/03/2009
Easy TFS Installation???
If you subscribe to Brian Harry’s blog, then you already know about this. If you don’t subscribe to...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 10/01/2009
Installing TFS 2010 Beta 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM
If you want to install TFS 2010 Beta 1 on Windows Server 2008 R2 release candidate or the full...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/29/2009
Profiling ASP.NET web applications
If you ever need to profile your ASP.NET web application, you can take advantage of the profiling...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/29/2009
Let’s see which one gets more hits…
A little experiment to see if my new blog on https://blogs.msdn.com/jimblizzard gets more hits than...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/26/2009
Hyper-V question of the day…
When you tell Hyper-V Manager to “Delete Snapshot Subtree…” how do you know if it’s started doing...
Author: jim blizzard [aka bliz] Date: 09/26/2009