My colleague Steve Trefethen notified me this morning that Windows Vista SP1 was available on MSDN downloads, so I took it for a spin...

There are many times when looking over the Test Log after an unsuccessful test it would be useful to know the state of the machine at the time of the error. In particular, it would be nice to see a picture of the desktop (or your application under test) at the time of error being posted to the log. Now, if you are doing the error posting from you script, it is easy as one of the parameters for Log.Error allows for posting a picture. But if, TestComplete posts the error it is harder. The best method I have found is to use the OnLogError event of TestComplete and post a message just before the error with the picture.

Turns out be be very straight forward. Read on to find out how..

Read how to implement the Singleton Design Pattern in C# using Generics

One of the things I have come to love about Linq is how you can focus more on declarative programming: focusing on what you want to accomplish rather than how...

Three ways to access the query string as key-value pairs.

Here is a new language feature that saves a lot of time and eliminates some mindless typing...

I just learnt something new and cool from one of Scott Guthries blogs: the ?? null coalescing operator in C# 2.0. I never noticed it until now, and actually thought it was part of 3.0, until a kind reader corrected me... it's been around ever since the advent of nullable types in C#.

Basically, this operator works like the T-SQL ISNULL or COALESCE function. Read all about it in Scott's blog!