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I was doing some work today where I needed to fake out a SPWeb object. No problem you think, I am using Typemock Isolator so I just use the line var fakeWeb = Isolate.Fake.Instance<SPWeb>(); But I got the error Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.SPWebConstructor(SPSite site, String url, Boolean bExactWebUrl, SPRequest request) Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb...

Anybody who works will SharePoint will grumble if you mention DCOM activation permissions. No matter how hard we try, how many patches we install (or how hard we try to ignore it), granting activation and launch permissions to the SharePoint service accounts is like plugging a dike with water-soluble filler. On Server 2008  R2 our job is made that...

I have at last worked all the way through setting up my portable end to end demo of  testing using Windows Test and Lab Manager . The last error I had to resolve was the tests not running in the lab environment (though working locally on the development PC). My the Lab Workflow build was recorded as a partial success i.e. it built, it deployed...

I have been looking at TFS 2010 Lab Manager recently . One problem I had was that using the sample code from the Lab Manager Blog Walkthru the building of the CALC ASP.NET web site failed on the build server, I got an error ASPNETCOMPILER: error 1003 The directory ‘c:\build\1LabWalkthru\Calculator –Build\Calc’ does not exist. and the build service was...

To coincide with commercial launch the Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio have been updated... http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5664019e-6860-4c33-9843-4eb40b297ab6&displaylang=en The Azure Team blog has a post on what is new... http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2010/02/02/windows-azure-tools-and-sdk-1-1-released...