Productivity

An interesting question that we frequently are being asked is: How to create a calendar report? Generally, the requirement is to create a report showing appointments and bookings just as in a month planner calendar/scheduler. When you think about it, tracking tasks and events when displayed in a calendar is instant - the users have all the information they need into a well known layout that allows to easily analyze tasks and projects. It is no wonder that our clients request this type of report. The easiest way to prepare a dynamic calendar report is to utilize our flexible crosstab/table/list item. Due to the...

We are excited to announce the new major release of our automated testing tools getting live today. This is version 2011.1 R1 featuring: · Recording and playback of WPF applications · Support for WPF controls including RadControls for WPF · Improved Silverlight v4 controls support · Enhanced cross-browser support with the new additions of IE9 and FF4 · Result reporting functionality · New Find Expression UI with richer options · Enhanced and simplified Licensing and many other improvements. Find the summary on the live site here.

Using JustMock Commercial Edition you can easily mock out calls to MessageBox.Show().  This can come in handy if you are testing code that bases its execution path on a MessageBox’s result. Also, it is unlikely you want the MessageBox to actually pop up while running your tests.  Let’s see how we can accomplish this!  The Basics [TestMethod] public void MOCK_MESSAGEBOX_RESULT() { bool called = false; DialogResult expected =...

There are various properties that govern how the OpenAccess ORM runtime behaves. The default values for these settings usually suffice for most situations. In case you need to tweak some settings, this can be done via the ‘Backend settings’ tab in the ‘Model settings’ dialog available in the Visual Studio designer. These options are broadly divided into 4 categories (here you can find more information about this dialog and the settings available): Runtime configuration Tracing & logging Second level cache Connection pool When any setting is changed in this dialog and the .rlinq file is saved, OpenAccess generates the appropriate code to set...

So here it is, the first post about what is coming in the forthcoming R1 2011 Test Studio release. You can now set test steps to execute against specific browsers and even specific versions of those browsers. To run a test only against Internet Explorer 9, simply select the test step, adjust the 'RunAgainst' property to 'InternetExplorerOnly', then set the 'RunsAgainstVersion' property to '9' and lastly 'RunsAgainstVersionCompare' to 'Equals'. That's all there is to it - the step will now be executed when you playback in IE9, however it will be ...