Microsoft Tester Center Website

Microsoft announced a new web site focused on software testing, Tester Center. This is a great resource not only for those who are focusing in software testing, but also for developers. Developers that know how to test is valuable, just like testers who know how to code.



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WPF Dispatcher

Basic idea : - A mechanism is needed to respond to user and system input . In win32 this one is called a message loop.The meessage loop runs in the back ground of a win 32 application and routes messages to the application from windows.

In WPF : - Here the message loop and queues are created and and managed by the dispatcher.A dispatcher is an instance of the Dispatcher class. The dispatcher runs the tasks one by one and is based on the priority level of each tasks. This Dispatcher is a true message dispatcher.

How to change the visual studio enviroment.?

How to toggle between different environments in Visual studio......? For example suppose you are in Tester environment but you wanted to use the Developer environment for a couple of hours and return to the Tester environment and so forth.

Here comes the importants of following command. devenv/resetuserdata Steps : Type the above command in Visual studio command prompt and press Enter key ,Once you open the visual studio for the next time it will prompt you to select the environment (The environment setting for the first time use). You can depend on the same command to come back to the previous environment ar any other environments available and so forth.................

Note: Please have a look at the snap shot ,which explains how to open the visual studio command prompt if you are new to visual studio or you got stuck with how to open the visual studio command prompt.

Hope this helps

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Praveen