Microsoft LINQ allows for database style queries against object data. Although you cannot run LINQ queries directly against data stored in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks, it is possible to load the data into objects that do support LINQ.
This Visual How To illustrates how to use the Open XML Formats to load information stored in Excel worksheets into generic lists that support LINQ.
This Visual How To uses the Open XML Format SDK 2.0, which you need to install before you begin.
One important aspect of web testing which is not so often discussed in blogs or articles is how to run tests against a web project running in debug mode on the local host. Microsoft provides two options to let you debug web projects locally: the Visual Studio development server and IIS Express. In this second part of our series on writing web integration tests, we’re going to demonstrate how to use the WebTestServer<T> class to start either server from within a running test suite.
In this article, you will
- Create a simple one page website project for testing
- Create a web test project that tests it against the VS Development Server
- Alter the website and test project to test the page using IIS Express.
This page is designed to help clarify the way Telerik Test Studio goes beyond Visual Studio 2010 testing products (Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate) to offer richer user experience and enhanced productivity. Its purpose is also to help visitors understand the key challenges with test automation that we are trying to solve with our solution beyond just the “Hello World” test case.
With the release of Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft has introduced the capability to automate the user interface (UI) of applications on the Windows platform. Visual Studio 2010 introduces the CodedUI test framework and the MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) as solutions for Testers and QAs to help manage test creation and test automation. We believe this to be a great step forward and a win for our customers especially in the areas of Test and Lab management. The Visual Studio / .NET platform has traditionally been exclusive to developers but now with VS2010 it also encompasses testers and QA professionals.
First time accepted submitter phoolishcyrus writes "Dear Slashdot: would you kindly take a look at our little project, PTVS — Python Tools for Visual Studio? It helps you develop Python (using any interpreter, not just IronPython) and comes with a few other goodies. Spare no punches."
Ok, so I’ve already hinted about this several posts before: an actual implementation of achievements-based programming in Visual Studio is being made as we speak. In this post I will humbly and proudly present the Strokes program that is rapidly evolving into something I’m eager to use in my own classes.
Google has made it unnecessarily complicated to write Android apps under Windows for C++ developers who are used to Visual Studio. Hopefully this posting makes it easier.This article is about setting up your Android development environment in combination with Visual Studio and WinDBG for mobile systems beta. The result is that you can create and debug Android projects from within Visual Studio on emulator and the actual device (that doesn’t need to rooted). Those project files are kept in sync with the original NDK build files (Android.mk etc) so they are compatible with the command-line tools. In other words, you can still use ndk-build and ant. If you are a happy Eclipse user, this posting isn’t for you.
