The SPUtility.SendEmail method enables you to send an email from the context of a SharePoint Web (SPWeb) object.

You can configure Team Foundation Server to use an existing SMTP server to send e-mail alerts. Users can configure alerts for various projects, work item, and build event notifications. Although you can specify the SMTP server during Team Foundation Server installation, you might want to change the STMP server later. Similarly, if you to change the application pool service account by using the TFSAdminUtil Change Account command, you must manually change the sender account e-mail address to the new service account's e-mail address.

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Software Testing VSTS - Testing

A test strategy is a planning document that provides the overall direction for the software testing needs of a project. Developing a test strategy is about setting direction and resolving high-level testing questions. The value of the test strategy isn’t in the wording, the writing, or the format of the strategy; the value is in planning an approach for testing.

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Software Testing Quality Assurance & Quality Control

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Software Testing Quality Assurance & Quality Control

A framework that promotes development iterations throughout the life-cycle of a project. It minimizes risk by developing software in short amounts of time. A development accomplished in one unit of time (generally up to four weeks) is called iteration. Each iteration is a project with analysis, design, coding, testing and also documentation all the required functionality may not be covered in one iteration for releasing the project. But it will be covered in multiple iterations. The idea is to have a defect free release available at the end of each iteration.

Download Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 to take advantage of fixes, improvements and new features.

Some of the features VS 2008 SP1 delivers:

1. Improvements to WPF designers in Visual Studio 2008
2. SQL Server 2008 Support
3. Enhanced AJAX and Data Tools
4. Performance increases to WPF based applications ( between 20 - 45% ) without code changes
5. Improvements in the area of data platform, such as the ADO.NET Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and support for SQL Server 2008’s new features

This blog clarifies that you can access Team Foundation Server project data through a web browser (Team System Web Access) to perform following features create, view, query and track work items, manage the build process and document libraries and no need to install visual studio client on each one machine. 

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Software Testing VSTS - Testing

This blog explains how to connect version 2007 of Access database from .Net.

This blog explains about LINQ to SQL Debug Visualizer

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Microsoft DotNet Technologies ASP.NET

A query can start to run slower for many reasons, including: an increased number of users (resulting in more waiting on resources), increased volume of data to process, too much context switching for parallel queries, and slower hardware. When a query is run, its query plan is cached to improve subsequent run of the query. Many interesting details relating to the query are recorded, these details can be accessed via SQL Server’s Dynamic Management Views (DMVs). In particular the DMV sys.dm_exec_query_stats contains performance statistics for cached query plans. This DMV has everything we need to determine if a query is running slower than normal.

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This blog entry should clearly explains how to add FAVICON to the websites.

This blog is tip about changing the default title for web part pages Read More »

SharePoint designer has a control called Form Action Button which can perform the same process without us doing any java script tweaking. This blog post will explain the various options available for Form Action Button control Read More »

Following is the source code for Gridview sorting ad Paging which is done without Datasource Control Read More »

This is a tip for redirecting users to a different page when save button on a custom list form is clicked. Read More »

Important things to be considered while creating websites

Increasing the number of warnings shown by Visual Studio code analysis Read More »

This tip explains the process of applying styles to gridview pager Read More »

Setting focus to a tab in tab panel from client side Javascript Read More »

Including custom JavaScript files & Adding events on fly in MSCRM 3.0 Read More »