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Azure Pricing So we will soon know the pricing model

Azure Pricing
So we will soon know the pricing model of Windows Azure (yay), we will probably find this out on the 13th of July but we will certainly know this by 4.30pm on Tuesday the 14th of July. If we don?t have the information on this date then the folks attending session ?SS006 ? The Azure Service Platform Partner Model and Pricing? could be in for a surprise. The Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference site has more details of this.

Cambridge usergroup meeting on Monday 6th - SQL 2008
Don’t forget if you are in the Cambridge area on Monday (6th July 2009) we are doing another usergroup meeting. This one is going to be on SQL Server 2008 features. We are holding this at the head quarters of Redgate software who are kindly sponsoring the event. To register go to I look forward to seeing you there. -

The Adventures of a Pythonista in Schemeland: More on Macros
In this episode, I add another item to the macro programmer toolkit (macros taking macros as arguments) and I bring an argument in favor of good old parentheses.

Debug .NET dumps with VS2010
Tess has written a great post on debugging .NET dumps in Visual Studio 2010 (which also briefly touches on the Parallel Stacks window Comments about this post welcome at the original blog.

TestDriven.Net 2.19: Release Notes

Which Test Runner?

The latest version of TestDriven.Net will display the name of the test runner used in the test results summary. If the target project doesn t reference a known test framework assembly, TestDriven.Net will use the Ad hoc test runner to quickly execute the target method.

You can see the above method has been executed using the Ad hoc test runner. If this happens when targeting real unit test, the chances are a test runner to handle the target test type or version hasn t been registered.

NUnit 2.5 Beta 2 Support

This version includes support for NUnit 2.5 Beta 2. The previous version had a bug that caused tests that threw an exception to show as skipped rather than failed.

Test With > .NET 1.1 on a 64-bit OS

If the .NET 1.1 SDK is installed and you re using Visual Studio 2005, you will have the option to Test With > .NET 1.1 . Under the covers this functionality builds your project using MSBee before executing your tests using .NET 1.1. This will now work when executed on a 64-bit OS.

I d be interested to hear if there s any demand for this feature on Visual Studio 2008.

Visual Studio 2003 Support

This version once again works on Visual Studio 2003. Only one person noticed this was broken on the previous beta. Are there many projects still being developed using Visual Studio 2003? I m using MSBee for all my legacy .NET 1.1 support.

Running xUnit tests on a 64-bit OS

Some people have been experiencing problems registering the xUnit test runner on a 64-bit OS. It turns out the problem was due to xUnit sometimes registering itself under HKLM and sometimes under HKCU depending on what was previously installed. If you re experiencing this problem, try re-registering xUnit (using xunit.installer.exe) after installing this version.

Clear Error List Before Build

Failed tests will now be removed from the error list when a new build starts. This prevents failed tests from becoming mixed up with build errors. I think this is the correct default behavior.

Download

You can find the release notes here and download here.