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Today was my second day as a full time blue badge Microsoft employee. After a day and a half of New Employee Orientation (NEO) & kool-aid drinking, we all got smart cards and CorpNet logons. One of the first things I [...]


Visual Studio 2008 introduced a feature that detects where the current Team Foundation Server is online or offline when you start the IDE.
In the situation where your server is actually ONLINE, but you want to treat it LIKE it’s offline, you have a couple of options.
Option 1 - Use the ‘tfpt tweakui’ utility
You can edit [...]


If you’re doing a deployment out to a test server as part of your Continuous Integration build process, you may have some unit tests (or web/load tests) to run after the deployment. Since these tests are testing more than just an assembly, they can be considered integration tests.
This can easily be accomplished by modifying your [...]


HP’s Quality Center (QC) is primarily used for it’s defect tracking and test suite management capabilities. More recently they have released a Requirements Management module that is able to tracks requirements.
If you want to query and update the data programmatically, it’s actually quite simple using what they call their “Open Test Architecture” APIs.

Add a [...]