Recently everyone on my team has switched to using Hyper-V as our primary means of virtualization. The combination of Hyper-V and differencing disks works great for our team as we install all kinds of bit that more than likely will explode our computers. We are testers after all. There was one thing that really took me awhile to figure out and quite frankly most people on my team don’t know you can do (hence the... more
So I decided that I am going to make the trip out to Las Vegas for MIX10. The cool thing about going to MIX this year is that I am going completely on my own as an attendee not a Microsoft Employee. So that means I Actually get to have fun the whole time not work during the whole thing. There are a lot of great speaker and to be honest I’m super excited to... more
The SQL Server Reporting Services (SQL-RS) Team is looking for the brightest and best testers out there. The SQL-RS team is responsible for the Microsoft Chart Control (Included in .NET 4), the Report Viewer, the Map Control, and the Gauge Control. I personally worked with the SQL-RS test team when they were shipping the Microsoft Chart Control for ASP.NET and they have a lot of bright and fun people over there. The next big thing... more
Okay so if you read this title and said “wait… MVC has Script helpers?!” you should first go read my original post on MVC Script & Css Helpers. Okay now for those of you who know what they are or just finished reading about them, I was able to add a small feature from Beta to RC to the script helper that I just didn’t have time to code the first time. If you download... more
That’s right you read the title right the ASP.NET QA team is once again hosting ninja try outs. We are looking for someone who is able to help evolve the team processes, improve our tooling, and join us in the trenches as we test one of the best technologies out there. Overall the team is responsible for ASP.NET WebForms, ASP.NET MVC, Microsoft AJAX, and a whole slew of other technologies. Our technologies can be found... more