Stumbled across a command line tool ( MSTest ) which executes your VSTS test list. You can call if from a Visual Studio command prompt or @ C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE

Upon execution this will create the same output as if you executed your tests inside of Visual Studio.

Creating MSN Desktop shortcuts is easy. The following is an example which creates a shortcut which will search a particular SharePoint site.

Copy this into the desktop search box…
@someweb,http://someweb/search.aspx?k=$w

Now you can search SomeWeb by typing:
someweb search_string

Thank you to Elizabeth Caley for sharing the tip.

Looking for a simpler MSN Search interface http://search.msn.com/.

Still not convinced about MSN search, try this site the next time you are searching http://www.addysanto.com/dualsearch.htm

Add this to your toolbox http://vstsplugins.sourceforge.net

I recently had an itch to play with InfoPath. I created a simple XSD schema and then started to build a form on top of it. Shortly after I found myself fixing the schema but I couldn’t figure out how to refresh the schema. MSN search pointed me to the answer .

On your phone enter **7284. This is a short cut that takes you to the Data Connection screen which offers three options:

As the modem through USB

As the modem through Bluetooth

Internal Data Call

Select the first choice and your PC will now recognize it as a modem. ** NOTE ** Every time you change your battery this reset to its default ( Internal Data Call ).

Next install the drivers and create a new dial up modem network connection. Get the latest Samsung CDMA drivers at the Samsung Drivers Page. Use the same dial up settings your phone is using.

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.

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