November 2006 - Posts
We are running an event that is mainly aimed at ISVs on building logo compliant Vista apps. We have however decided to open up the event to any company/developer as the concepts are useful to anyone.
You can register here. We are still busy organizing the Cape Town event
Topics we will cover include:
• User Account Control Requirements
• Installation Requirements
• Compatibility & Interoperability Requirements
• Reliability Requirements
• Testing Code for Compliance
• Lighting Up Vista Applications
We could not find a speaker so I am doing this one. It actually has been awhile since I have done a full day event so lots of work ahead.
At Devdays I showed the WPF Healthcare demo and got some requests for the app and/or the code. At that stage I could not give it out. The good news is that we have published it. Go download it now. As far as I know this was based on the RC1 bit so there could be an issue or two with RTM (at the minimum I would think you need to compile and not just try the binary :-))
I have received this question a couple of times recently. When setting up a Team Build you have the option of running tests as part of the build. For Team Build to run the tests though the tests need to be in a test list. This has 2 issues. The first one is just the administration of making sure that you assign your tests to lists. The second one is the more problematic one. The test list feature only exists in the Tester SKU. So a developer with the developer edition would have try and mess with the XML in the .vsmdi file and that is not fun.
The good news. Buck Hodges has posted an MSBuild task that allows to specify the assemblies that contain the tests. So if you simply want to say "run all my unit tests" go check this out.
Enough said. First league victory in 16 years over Chelsea. Deserves a blog post
Certainly a busy week for the downloads. Office 2007 is done and so is the .NET Framework. I corrupted my one hard drive (probably the main one) so this was good opportunity to clean it up (no I did not reformat). Thus far I have removed the older versions of Office B2TR and a much older version of the framework v3. Office 2007 is already installed (after having hassles getting rid of the beta due to my hard drive corruption).
The .NET Framework runtime is downloaded and so are the workflow and WCF/WPF extensions but I have not installed those yet. I tried downloading the Windows SDK image (1.2GB) but I am not having much luck. I am now trying to download the SDK from an internal location and hopefully that will go off better. I hope I will not have any issues installing with so many betas etc previously on this machine
Also
Downloaded and installed IE7
Downloaded but not yet installed is the VSTO Extensions for Office 2007. You can download from here
Downloaded and installed the RTM version of Desktop Search v3
Downloaded and installed a later version of Live Writer (out for a month or so - i just did not update). Live Writer should implement Auto Update :-)