Dave Donaldson
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Limit the Number of Old Test Results with VS2008
Monday, December 10 2007
For anyone out there using MSTest in VS2005, I'm sure you're aware of all the test results files and folders the test harness creates for each test run. I'm also sure you're aware that if left unchecked, those files and folders will quickly consume mass amounts of hard drive space, leaving you to manually delete all those unwanted test results you ran over the last couple months. For a long time there, deleting all those test results became a weekly occurrence for me every Friday before I left work for the weekend.
Well, with VS2008 we don't have to worry about that pesky problem anymore. VS2008 provides an option to limit the number of old test results it will keep around, as shown below in the Test Execution options:
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It's little things like this that go a long way to a better developer experience. I'm really glad they added this feature.

