I have been coding using Microsoft technologies for a long while. Recently I was given the chance to do a little bit of web mastering. Due to my system admin background I was most definitely game for this. Learning IIS 6.0 was not a huge leap as I had done a lot of development using IIS5.1(Windows XP...

a.k.a. The “I didn’t know I had to test that” checklist. Each tester is responsible for ensuring that his/her feature integrates correctly with the rest of Asp.Net, which is a challenge because Asp.Net is a very big product and almost no one can keep all the different features in their...

This week we found another subtle browser difference as we were running MVC Ajax tests. If you have been following the Asp.Net MVC project, you will know that we are currently working on adding an Ajax story to the framework. Basically, adding helper methods so that a developer can render links that...

A lot of us use Fiddler to debug traffic from our applications. Fiddler doesn't work with requests to localhost. When debugging an ASP.NET website, we can always use the machine name instead of localhost. However, when using the ASP.NET development server (aka Cassini), we cannot use the machine name...

I thought that the first post should lay some common ground about how the team is composed and what products we ship. Internally, the ASP.NET Team has been renamed a couple of times (things like, "Web Platform and Tools", "UIFx Server") but no matter the name, our team is responsible for delivering what...

Are you into Test? Curious about how we test ASP.NET? Have you wondered how a Microsoft test team operates? If so, this blog is for you :) The ASP.NET team as has been improving in the way that it develops and releases software, the underlying principle has been to get builds on customer's hands early...

Today Typemock released version 4.3 of Typemock Isolator . Download it from here . What’s new? Support for Ivonna . For those of you who develop ASP.Net applications, Ivonna is a great tool, built on top of Isolator’s platform, to simplify writing tests for ASP.NET . Typemock.Integration.Packs namespace...

I've decide to use NUnitAsp on the current project. After doing some basic visibility checks I tried to call Click() on a LinkButtonTester and I got an error. I did some digging and found that the new WebForm_PostBackOptions was not being recognized as a postback. With a bit of hacking around, I've got...

Well this week was a nice rest, most of it spent relaxing with my wife. So it was a non-coding week but a range of links did catch my interest: Silverlight/WPF Laurent Duveau lets us know that Expression Studio is now available on MSDN. Ashish posts a lot of links related to WPF. Brad Abrans posts about...

We're just finishing up Mid-Year discussions here at work. It's a great time to take a step back and plan out the next few years of our careers, and I thought it would be worth talking about the testing career here at Microsoft. Testing Positions at Microsoft There are a few different testing positions...