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Some useful Xpath expressions

Thursday, 28 January 2010 11:43 Superadmin ASP.NET

Here are some useful Xpath expression which were a little hard to figure out for a newbie like me so I am making an attempt to document them. Here are 2 of them,

Get unique values using xpath
Get leaf node only using xpath

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TRX merger for Visual Studio Team System 2008

Monday, 18 May 2009 13:08 Ajay Majgaonkar C#

People working on test projects that involve test management and execution from Visual Studio Team System 2008 and who do not have a TFS server for reporting will find this a handy utility.

I have already shown how one can generate a simple html report from a .trx - Visual Studio result file in Generating HTML reports from TRX using XSLT. But what if you want your html report to show test results from different testers in your team or you just want to overwrite the existing results with the latest? Without a TFS, this remains a challenge.

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Converting Excel-based tests to VSTS manual tests

Wednesday, 13 May 2009 10:46 Ajay Majgaonkar C#

Managing test cases in Excel spredsheets is the most usual practice in test management. We all know the beauty and power that Excel provides. But, with Visual Studio Team System 2008, things are a little different. VSTS as it is called, uses a different file format for managing manual tests and also another major difference is, every manual test is a separate .mht file.

I was faced with this situation of converting all my excel based test cases into VSTS compatible manual test cases. I had around 500+ tests and converting them into VSTS manually would have probably taken more time than to develop them afresh.

I quickly pulled out a new C# project to do this task. It is pretty crude but works! and saved me days of manual work.

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Custom generation of identity values in SQL Server

Monday, 11 May 2009 06:13 Roopmay Roy SQL

An identity column in SQL Server creates an auto-incrementing numeric sequence of values. When an insert is made into a table with an identity column, a value does not need to be put in the identity column. The value of the identity column is automatically filled in.

Identity columns are used when it is required to automatically number each row as it comes into the table. The identity column’s seed (starting value) and increment can be set at the time of creation of the identity column. So every time a row is added to the table it is assigned a number obtained by adding the increment to the old value (this value will be the seed for the first row)

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Retain a Microsoft.NET site’s ranking with search engines with the help of 301 redirection

Saturday, 09 May 2009 21:19 Roopmay Roy ASP.NET

Web sites on the internet need to undergo technological changes or revamps. This results in the same features and functions to be available at a different URL.

If visitors to your site have bookmarked such pages of the site prior to it undergoing the revamp, their attempts to access the site after the revamp are going to result into 404 (page not found) errors.

This causes the site to be black listed / de-ranked with search engines.

Assuming that your new site is built using Microsoft .NET, this document is to illustrate an easy way in .NET to retain a site’s ranking with the help of a 301 re-direction.