Dominic Hopton's Blog
A Compendium of blogsicles
Running two Microsoft Test Manager’s Side By Side
When working with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), you might want to run two at a time. We often want...
Date: 02/26/2010
Republishing Results
There was a interesting question posted in my comments on the TRX file format, about being able to...
Date: 08/14/2008
This weeks favourite WPF Feature
I've recently been trying to resolve some issues related to large fonts / high DPI, and while...
Date: 07/05/2008
Helpful Internals of TRX (and VSMDI files)
One of the questions that comes up internally, and externally is "What are these magic GUID...
Date: 06/13/2008
Running Tests as 'MTA'
There was an internal discussion this week about the need to run unit tests under MTA threads,...
Date: 10/22/2007
Private[Object|Type|Accessors] & Automatic unpacking of ref/out params
I was writing some unit tests yesterday, and needed to test a private method. As I was gleely...
Date: 09/20/2007
Unit Testing Dependency Properties with VSTT, a first stab
I've been playing around with WPF recently, and one of the things I've ended up doing is creating a...
Date: 09/17/2007
Where Have I been? Helping make Team System Rock!
Well, It's been a long time since I blogged - actually, I've not blogged since we shipped our very...
Date: 01/14/2005
Custom Test Properties & Test View - What is & What will be...
Ok, So I’d thought about this blog yesterday but discounted it ‘cause its not really my...
Date: 05/25/2004
Tips & Tricks: Set the output type to EXE and give it a main method
Ok, you’ve written your tests, and you want to debug them or you’ve got a test failing...
Date: 05/24/2004
No! My Run config got toasted!
Another problem with the run configuration is that the template runconfig (The one that gets added...
Date: 05/24/2004
Setup Failure – It’s just throwing a tantrum
One of the problems we came across during the last moments of testing for the CTP was a very rare...
Date: 05/24/2004
I turned off code coverage and I can’t run my tests anymore!
This is a problem we only found out after we’d sent off the DVDs to be pressed, and turns out...
Date: 05/24/2004
Test View – your new most used window
Let’s take a look at the Test View tool window – the place where you will be running...
Date: 05/24/2004
Who the heck are you?
I’m Dominic, and I’m an SDE/T on the Enterprise Developer Tools team here at Microsoft,...
Date: 05/24/2004