Contents tagged with VSTS

  • Visual Studio 2008 SP1

    Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 has finally arrived.  It is a warm welcome with the way that my Visual Studio installation "found opportunities to suddenly restart", let's say.  The SP1 installation is rather interesting, like the VS2005 service packs were.  It takes a very long time to complete, it pops up (and hides) alert windows behind the installation window, it requires the VS2008 DVD, and it requires a reboot if some applications are running such as my Yahoo messenger...  Hmmm...  So I would suggest that when installing this service pack, stay focused on its progress and start it when you don't need to get work done.

  • How To: Unit Test a T-SQL Trigger with VSTS Database Edition

    In Visual Studio Team System Database Edition, three types of functionality are unit tested; Stored Procedures, Functions, and Triggers.  It’s not so obvious how to test a trigger and at this time there are not many examples.  This is probably because there are so many different testing needs.  Testing the trigger is very similar to the more obvious calls to stored procedures and functions.  This example shows how a trigger can be unit tested using the RAISERROR method to cause a test harness failure.  Two other methods exist to perform unit testing failures for those complicated tests. 

  • VSTS Testing - How to Get a Web Test Form Field for URL Subsequent Requests

    There are several ways to get an id from a requested form and set it as a request parameter on a subsequent web request. Remember that the querystring parameters are used on the form request before the form is retrieved and the extraction rules occur after the form has been received. This is all to ensure that the response to a formatted request was as expected.