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The new Visual Studio 2010 RC brings significant changes in the domain of the coded UI tests. You can realize that if you try to build a test project in this new environment as you probably get more than 1000 errors. A few errors seem to happen a few hundred times each:

• Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting.UITestControlProperties’ is inaccessible due to its protection level.
• The name ‘HtmlProperties’ does not exist in the current context.
• The name ‘UITestControlProperties’ does not exist in the current context.
• The name ‘WinProperties’ does not exist in the current context.

However, you can upgrade your project with an automatic upgrade script to move your automation:

1. Launch the Visual Studio Command Prompt from Start Menu > All Programs> Microsoft Visual Studio 2010> Visual Studio Tools
2. Run the script

UITestUpgrade.exe < folder to upgrade>

The upgrade tool will fix all of the changes listed below:

• All of the folders under the specified folder(s) is searched recursively and all projects under it upgraded.
• If a project is under source control, the upgrade tool will perform a check out and make changes.
• Tool will create a backup folder with all contents of the specified folder.

Microsoft will discontinue the X++ based Web User Interface in Enterprise Portal effective with general availability of the next version of Microsoft Dynamics AX. Microsoft Dynamics AX 2009 (current release), is the last that will include the X++ based Web User Interface. In future versions, the Enterprise Portal ASP.NET Web User Interface Framework will be the only one included.

Enterprise Portal X++ Web User Interface Framework, a development and runtime component of Enterprise Portal, is used for building and rendering the Web user interface.

Dynamics AX 2009 contains no dependencies on the Enterprise Portal X++ Web User Interface Framework, and future investment is focused on technologies built on the ASP.NET Framework-based Web User Interface. Enterprise Portal X++ Web User Interface Framework will not ship in future Microsoft Dynamics AX releases.