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First let me say this book is very well written. Throughout my career I have read a large number of books, publications and whitepapers and nothing has read as well as this. The content is very well organized and the material is illustrated in such a way where it can be read by all levels of technical staff. Anyone who has any SOA involvement be it development to management should read this book before doing anything. The use of case studies really relates the entire book to ones own organization where they can start to compare and contrast either how they have implemented SOA or might like to. As I was reviewing this book I in fact started to re-architect SOA systems I was building.

More information can be found at ServiceOriented.ws

Add it to your library from either Amazon or bookpool. ISBN 0131858580

I would like to send a personal thank you to Thomas Erl for the opportunity to participate as a technical reviewer.

Be sure to visit all the options under "Configuration" in the Admin Menu Bar above. There are 16 themes to choose from, and you can also create your own.

A quick breakdown of the Team Test attributes compared to NUnit attributes with a few examples.

All Team Test attributes are found in the following namespace:
Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTesting.Framework

Attribute Quick List

AssemblyInitalize and AssemblyCleanup are new. There are no equivalent attributes in NUnit. These attributes run at AppDomain load and dispose.



[ AssemblyInitialize ]
public static void AssemblyInitialize()
{ }


[ AssemblyCleanup ]
public static void AssemblyCleanup()
{ }


Acting just like the NUnit TestFixtureSetUp and TestFixtureTearDown with the only one minor difference. Both methods have to be static and the ClassInitialize takes in one parameter. ClassInitialize will execute before any TestInitialize and TestMethod after the AssemblyInitialize while ClassCleanup executes after the TestMethod and TestCleanup but before the AssemblyCleanup.



[ ClassInitialize ]
public static void ClassInitialize(TestContext t)
{ }


[ ClassCleanup ]
public static void ClassCleanup()
{ }


TestInitialize executes before each test and TestCleanup executes after each test for every TestMethod.

[ TestInitialize ]
public void TestInitalize()
{ }


[ TestCleanup ]
public void TestCleanup()
{ }

Since Google’s purchase of Keyhole, they’ve recently released a program called Google Earth. Its free and will no doubt suck up some of your time.

So far my favorite place is the Grand Canyon National Park.

I have been without TestDriven.Net for a while and it’ s been killing me. I can’t explain why the following change works but it works.

It’s always nice to share your tools of the trade with fellow colleagues. I was going to compile my own list when I was passed Scott Hanselman’s. I think I shall pass, he did a great job of covering things.

Thanks to Mike Becker for sharing it with me.