List of recommended books on TFS, Visual Studio, C# and C++ coding, Design and Development Process

UPDATED Jul 3rd 2013:  Added Art of Unit Testing Version 2 UPDATED Apr 11th 2013:  Added Instant TFS 2012 and Project Server 2012 Integration How-to UPDATED Jan 12th 2013:  Added Prof TFS Server 2012, TFS 2012 Starter, Pro ALM with VS 2012 and VS 2012 Cookbook UPDATED Dec 8th 2011:   Added Kanban book by David Continue Reading →

Visual Studio Testing Tools–Two new hotfixes released

Update: These have been superseded and included in later Cumulative Updates. See http://wblo.gs/cu8v for checking what you got and updates, or download the tool. Also see info about the updates and extensions here. During the summer Microsoft has released two important hotfixes for the Testing tools. These two hotfixes solves 7 serious problems: # Issue Continue Reading →

Tools for Metrics analysis – Visual Studio and NDepend / CppDepend – part 1

Introduction Recently I have been involved in some projects to improve the software quality of their code base.  These code bases have been rather large, and in some cases consisting of both managed code, C# and C++, and Native code in C++. The reasons for improving the code base comes from a realization of the Continue Reading →

Code Metrics – suggestions for appropriate limits

I like Code Metrics.  They give a certain “objective” evaluation of a piece of code.  You can use it for yourself just to make it pinpoint potential trouble areas, or just some code where you were a bit sloppy – happens from time to time……  And when you’re going to do a peer review, it’s Continue Reading →