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Visual T# in Morbihan (France)!

Ludovic Dubois, the architect of Visual T#, will give a talk about unit testing in software development. He will also demonstrate how Visual T#, a new programming language for .NET, can help developers to write more and better tests for their applications.

This conference will be given in the next meeting of Agile Morbihan, this coming Thursday, July 22th at 6:30PM, at the offices of AG2L, located at 5 rue Simone Signoret in Lorient (France).

Visual T# v1.9.2 is released!

New features

Use upper case letters to search for name within Intellisense (for example: Console.WL [Ctrl]+[Space] will show you WindowLength, WriteLine ...)
Resources can now be integrated into T# projects
New item templates are now organized into Categories

Improvements

Project references are no more locked!
Intellisense now displays less stuff (only what is expected to show!)
Code Completion for attributes does not add "Attribute" suffix

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes, particularly in Intellisense

Download the new version here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# v1.9.1 is released!

New features

Generate missing test skeleton from Tests Explorer case (drag missing case and drop it in source code)
Select Tests Explorer test node and test case from source code (contextual menu: Visual T#|Select Test in Tests Explorer)
Retrieve case from Test Explorer test node (contextual menu 'Goto Case')

Improvements

Big refactoring for source and symbols management in Visual Studio (QuickInfo, Tool Tips, Code Completion, ClassView, DropDown, Tests Explorer...)

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes, particularly in Tests Explorer, Tests Runner (for Working Space)

Download the new version here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# v1.9.0 is released!

New features

Live 'Visual T# Tests Explorer': manage existing and missing tests as soon as you write them!

Improvements

Stop execution of the tests from either Visual T# contextual menu or from our new Tests Explorer

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes

Download the new version here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# in Montreal!

This conference will be given in the next meeting of the SQPA, an association of software quality practioners, this coming Wednesday, March 17th at 6:00PM, at the offices of Pegasie Technologies, located at 1250 Boul. René-Lévesque Ouest, Suite 2200 in Montreal. The cost to attend is 20$.

More information about this talk @ http://www.apql-sqpa.ca/index_en.php?texte=3

Visual T# v1.8.1 is released!

You should install the latest release of Visual T# (v1.8.1): it fixes a few minor bugs for Visual Studio Integration.
Download the new version here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# v1.8.0 is released!

New features

'Go to definition' and 'Go to declaration' are implemented for symbols in the same project

Improvements

Rewritten source and symbols management for Visual Studio (QuickInfo, Tool Tips, Code Completion, ClassView, DropDown...)
- Far more efficient
- Now works for current project (no more for external references only)

Bug Fixes

Minor bug fixes for renderers from within Visual Studio

Download the new version here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# in Quebec

You are from Quebec? You want to know more about unit testing and/or Visual T#, our free unit tests programming language? Come and see us: Presentation will be in French.

Brand new Web site!

Today we publish a completly revisited version of our Web site!
It contains the detailed description of our products and services, plus corporate information.

Send us an email to give your comments!

Visual T# v1.7.2 is released!

New features

errormessage <string-expression>; statement instead of assert false errormessage <string-expression>;

Improvements

Intellisense efficiency increased

Bug Fixes

if statement with combined conditions with && does not work in some cases
if type XAttribute exist but is hidden, an error message was displayed, even if type X exist and is accessible
Problem in certain cases with array initializers
minor bug fixes for Intellisense, Quick Info and Method Tip

Download the new version here: Visual T# Forum

We have moved!

Yesterday, we have moved to new location.
Our new address is

405 Ogilvy avenue
suite 101
Montreal (Québec) H3N 1M3

Visual T# v1.7.1 is released!

We have now more than 24.200 tests for Visual T#, but we just found a major bug!
Download the new version here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# v1.7 is released!

We are proud to announce the release of a new version of Visual T#, our programming language to simplify efficient unit test writing.
We are very happy to provide Microsoft.NET community with a very easy language, thanks to C# compatibility, that will enable every .NET developper to have better tests and better test coverage easily.

You can download Visual T# for FREE here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# v1.6 is released!

You can download Visual T# for FREE here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# at Agile Tour Montreal 2009

We will be at Agile Tour Montreal 2009 (October 27, 2009) to show best unit test practices, and thus to show Visual T#, the subject is "Bien testé ou mal testé? Telle est la question!" (in French).
You will see how Visual T# can simplify unit test thinking, writing and management.

For more information: Agile Tour Montreal 2009

Visual T# v1.5 is released!

You can download Visual T# for FREE here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# has now more than 20.000 tests!

While developing Visual T# 1.5, we just reach 20.000 tests!
Code Generator is completly rewritten and many minor bugs are fixed.
This new version will be available soon.

We join the AntiIFCampaign

As OO teachers, we tell for many years that a good OO design does not need so much 'if' statements!
So we are proud to join the AntiIfCampaign :-)

Visual T# v1.0 is released!

We are proud to announce the release of Visual T#, our programming language to simplify efficient unit test writing.
We are very happy to provide Microsoft.NET community with a very easy language, thanks to C# compatibility, that will enable every .NET developper to have better tests and better test coverage easily.

You can download Visual T# for FREE here: Visual T# Forum

Visual T# Samples are available

Today, we provide direct access to our svn server to enable .NET community to samples written in T#: a full classic sample and our NUnit extension, thus making it easily updatable.
For more information, go to our Visual T# Forum

Visual T# at Code Camp Montreal 2009

We will be at Code Camp Montreal 2009 (May 30, 2009) to show Visual T#, the subject is "The Best Practices".
You will see how Visual T# can simplify unit test writing and management.

For more information: Code Camp Montreal

Visual T# at Code Camp Montreal 2009

We will be at Code Camp Montreal 2009 (May 30, 2009) to show Visual T#, the subject is "The Best Practices".
You will see how Visual T# can simplify unit test writing and management.

For more information: Code Camp Montreal

Visual T#: RC1 is here!

We proudly announce you the first Release Candidate of Visual T# Studio (v0.9.5) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.

For more information, visit the Visual T# Forum

Visual T#: Two complete samples available

We post two complete samples in the T# Sample Forum.
You will see good practices using T#.

T#: Many new improvements

We proudly announce you the new beta release of Visual T# (v0.9.4) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
Once again, this version adds many improvements.

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

T#: Many bug fixes and improvement

We proudly announce you the new beta release of Visual T# (v0.9.3) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
Once again, this version fixes many bugs and adds many improvements.

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

T#: Many bug fixes and improvement

We proudly announce you the new beta release of Visual T# (v0.9.2) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
This version fixes many bugs and adds many improvements.

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

T#: Running NUnit and T# Tests

We proudly announce you the new beta release of Visual T# (v0.9.1) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
This version enables you to run T# tests as well as NUnit tests, and enhances Visual Studio integration

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

T#: Running tests multiple times

We proudly announce you the new beta release of Visual T# (v0.2.9) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
This version enables you to run tests multiple times (for different contexts for example), and enhances Visual Studio integration

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

T#: Running tests with parameters

We proudly announce you the new beta release of Visual T# (v0.2.8) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
This version enables you to run tests with parameters, and enhances Visual Studio integration

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

Better Visual Studio integration of T#

We proudly announce you the new beta release of Visual T# (v0.2.7) for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
This version enhances T# Studio integration in Visual Studio

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

T# Studio beta for VS2005 and VS2008

We proudly announce you the beta release of Visual T# for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, for Windows XP and Vista.
T# Studio includes a new programming language for .NET, specialized in unit testing. It makes testing easier, and better!

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

T# Studio: a new way to test!

We proudly announce you the beta release of Visual T#.
Visual T# includes a new programming language for .NET, specialized in unit testing. It makes testing easier, and better!

For more information, visit the Visual T# Official Page

Podcast on unit tests with T#

Last wedsnesday, Ludovic Dubois was invited to 'Visual Studio Talk Show' podcast to speak about unit testing with T#.
You can download this podcast (in french).

"Microsoft.NET 3.X: evolution or revolution?" conference

Today, Ludovic Dubois was invited to 'Midi-conférences' of CRIM to talk about Microsoft.NET 3.X, to know if this is an evolution of the developement platform or a revolution

Podcast on metaprogramming

Today, Ludovic Dubois was invited to 'Visual Studio Talk Show' podcast to speak about unit testing with Mock Objects.
You can download this podcast (in french).

Podcast on testing with Mock Objects

Last wedsnesday, Ludovic Dubois was invited to 'Visual Studio Talk Show' podcast to speak about unit testing with Mock Objects.
You can download this podcast (in french).

Job opportunity

We offer a new position of consultant-instructor at Pretty Objects! See details in the Carreer page.

Metaprogramming Presentation

We show why and how to use Microsoft.NET Metaprogramming in the october, 26th GUMSNET (Groupe d'utilisateurs de l'Architecture Microsoft.NET de Montréal) event.

On the agenda:

Attributs overview
Introspection overview
Demonstration
Reflection overview
Demonstration
Presentation of tools that make use of metaprogramming

This event is scheduled for October 26, 2004. Read the presentation.

Brand new Web site!

Today we publish a completly revisited version of our Web site!
It contains the detailed description of our products and services, plus corporate information.

Send us an email to give your comments!