Visual Studio Tips

If you prefer your own Diff/Merge tool over the standard TFS one, here is how to change the TFS configuration. Personally I use DiffMerge by SourceGear.

Associating a diff tool with a file type in TFS

Common Command and Argument Values for different Diff tools for TFS

For a Visual Studio project to display tests in the Test View window it needs to be created as a "Test" project. If you want to see the tests and it was created as some other kind of project originally, you should be able to add the following in the element in you
.csproj file which is XML based:


<ProjectTypeGuids>{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>


Now Visual Studio 2008 should display all your unit tests in the Test View window.

Thanks to this article for helping me out with this one.