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CodedUI: Close Dialogs and Windows by javarg

UI automation could be a very very complex procedure. Several things could change between different executions, controls could be moved or renamed, etc. Some simple things such as closing a dialog popup/window could be challenging.. Let’s try to recreate...
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TFS Build 2010: BuildNumber and DropLocation by javarg

Automatic Builds for Application Release is a current practice in every major development factory nowadays. Using Team Foundation Server Build 2010 to accomplish this offers many opportunities to improve quality of your releases. The following approach...
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Evento Gratuito de Arquitectura / Architecture Event by javarg

El próximo 29 de noviembre voy a participar como orador en Microsoft en este evento gratuito sobre Herramientas de desarrollo y patrones de Arquitectura. Vamos a tomar varios temas interesantes sobre Arquitectura y construcción de Frameworks de Desarrollo...
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Load Test in Windows Azure with Visual Studio Test Agents by javarg

Tomorrow I will be presenting “ Load Test in Windows Azure with Visual Studio Test Agents ” on MSDN. Hope to see you there. Register here .
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Using Moles with DLR (dynamic) by javarg

As several people have found, Moles does not work well with DLR. Check Cameron’s post for this issue. In order to make it work do the following: Go to folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\ Backup files...
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Moles and Linq to SQL: Mocking Linq to SQL Behavior by javarg

In recent years there’s been major investments in developing tools in order to provide good quality assurance features and incorporate industry practices into them. TDD, DDD, Unit Testing, Continuous Integration, etc. Microsoft has recently (not so recently...
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Visual Studio 2010 crashes with “Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation” by javarg

If you haven´t installed Visual Studio 2010 SP1 yet and you’ve enabled automatic Windows Update, chances are you end up getting the following error when starting VS2010: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. There is a .NET 4 Framework...
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Webcast MSDN: Parallel LINQ by javarg

Next Wednesday (April 27th) I will presenting Parallel LINQ and showing some not trivial stuff to optimize performance in parallel algorithms. Register here .
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.NET Community Mexico City by javarg

I will be participating as an invited speaker in “Comunidad.NET” in Mexico City next Tuesday (April 26th). My presentation will be focusing code quality using Visual Studio Tools. Agenda: Code Metrics Code Analysis Profiling IntelliTrace Pex & Moles...
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Async C# 5: Using Async Pattern with WCF and Silverlight by javarg

Sometime ago I published a way to use WCF service with the new Async Pattern in C#. The problem is that this approach won’t work with Silverlight. More specifically, TaskFactory is not available in Silverlight. So.. here is one solution (it does not provide...
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