A series of links on the Unit Test and Code Coverage topics

http://geekswithblogs.net/jakob/archive/2009/06/03/tfs-team-build-2010-running-unit-tests.aspx

http://msmvps.com/blogs/rfennell/archive/2010/08/05/getting-code-coverage-working-on-team-build-2010.aspx

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit

From Microsoft's web site, here is a training course material (165 Mb) to learn when ever you want (it takes about 3 days full time).

FREE Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit


Day 1

• Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 (PPT: What's New In Visual Studio 2010)
• Lap Around .NET Framework 4 (PPT: Whats New In .NET Framework 4)
• Managed Languages Overview (C#/VB) (PPT: What's New In C# 4 and Visual Basic 10)
• Entity Framework 4 (PPT: Whats New In Entity Framework 4)
• ADO.NET Data Services 1.5 (PPT: Whats New In ADONET Data Services 1.5)
• Velocity (PPT: Introduction to Project "Velocity")
• Silverlight 3 (PPT: Not included in the kit)

Day 2

• ASP.NET 4 (PPT: Whats New In ASP.NET Web Forms 4)
• AJAX 4 (PPT: Whats New In ASP.NET AJAX 4)
• Web Deployment with Visual Studio 2010 (PPT: Web Deployment with Visual Studio 2010)
• Windows Presentation Foundation 4 (PPT: What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation 4)
• .NET RIA Services (PPT: Introduction to .NET RIA Services)
• Managed Extensibility Framework (PPT: Introduction to the Managed Extensibility Framework)

Day 3

• WF/WCF 4 (PPT: Workflow 4: A First Look)
• Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010 (PPT: Parallel Computing with Visual Studio 2010)
• Parallel Computing for Managed Developers (PPT: Parallel Computing for Managed Developers)
• Visual Studio Team System 2010
These are short modules that can be picked based on the interest of the audience.
   . PPT: Introduction: Visual Studio Team System 2010    . PPT: No More Planning Black Box    . PPT: No More Late Surprises    . PPT: No More Stakeholder Surprises    . PPT: No More Parallel Development Pain    . PPT: No More Bewildering Admin    . PPT: No More No Repro

• Visual Studio Team System 2010
   . PPT: No More Build Breaks    . PPT: No More Butterfly Effect    . PPT: No More UI Regressions    . PPT: No More Missed Requirements or Changes    . PPT: No More Waiting for Build Setup    . PPT: No More Performance Regressions

Creating a Web Service around an Excel File

Need to create a Web Service around an Excel File ??

Here is a simple way to do so, without using .Net interop to Excel (that could raise issues in memory usage, even if COM objects are properly cleaned up).

As far as I am concerned, I used Aspose.Cells for .NET, which is a simple, but powerfull library to :
1/ Send values to my Excel WCF service,
2/ Let Excel perform all the complexe sums (most importantly, let a non technical users to update the Excel files),
3/ Gets the data and convert them into ADO.Net, so that it could be DataBound easily,
4/ Get all the returned values back to my orginal application,


A stress/load test on the solution proves that it can handle a great amount of calls.


PS: Other possibilities could be EXCEL Services from MOSS Enterprise, Office 2010 (EXCEL Web Access), ...