Systems Engineering

SimplyVBUnit is a VB6 Unit Testing Framework that helps to easily build unit tests in the VB6 IDE.

It is modelled after the popular NUnit for the DotNET framework.

The latest version of it is available from SourceForge.

Check out its companion projects VBCorLib and VBMock.

It is possible to use the Team Foundation Source Control with Visual Basic 6.0 using the MSSCCI Provider, http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=87E1FFBD-A484-4C3A-8776-D560AB1E6198&displaylang=en
The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider enables integrated use of Team Foundation Version Control with products that do not support Team Explorer integration.

This version (1.1) includes:

• GetLatest on Checkout support
• Work items can be modified in the check-in window
• Setup works on x64
• Check-in lock is treated as exclusive
• Parameters for external diff are passed in the same order as in Visual Studio 2005
• Open from source control and save to source control operations are enhanced to behave more like Visual Studio 2005 and Visual SourceSafe
• Defect fixes

Team Foundation Server (TFS) does not ship out of the box with a Continuous Integration capability. Mitch Denny and others at Radify have tried to address this issue with smething called TFS Integrator.

Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of continually scanning the source code repository for changes, and, once they have been detected automatically kicking off a build process to verify that the code compiles successfully. In many instances teams will tag on a round of build verification tests to ensure that not only does the code compile, but that it doesn’t catch on fire when you try to run it (smoke tests).

The software uses a TFS “event service” to plug into in order to listen for events in the source code repository. “The way it works is that whenever you do something significant in Team Foundation Server, such as checking in a file, that TFS sub-system notifies the TFS eventing system which then broadcasts that message to any subscribers. This is how you get an e-mail when another developer checks in some code,” writes Denny. Read more on TFS Integrator.

Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System (Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Beta, or VSTO 2005 SE Beta for short) is a free add-on to Visual Studio 2005 that empowers developers to build applications targeting the 2007 Office system. Developers can now harness the benefits of the 2007 Office system platform and create Office-based solutions using the professional development environment of Visual Studio 2005.