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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I recently been working with a client who has been seeing strange problems when they try to create new workitems via a SharePoint portal site on a TFS2010 Beta2 installation. They appeared to have a fully working TFS2010 installation, but when they came...
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Exploring the new frontier I’m writing this post whilst watching my Windows Home Server slowly copy data onto an external drive. I mention that not because of its pertinence, but to indicate why I found myself having time to join Facebook . The other...
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Seems I missed an interesting at session at DDD8, Barry Dorrans’ final DDD performance, with assistance with of other speakers. Barry you will be missed Update 5 Feb, links to the interruptions Plip's Book Advert . Liam's Eulogy . Colin...
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Next months Agile Yorkshire meeting (10th Feb) is an open floor meeting - any subject, any format, 10 minute maximum. If you fancy doing something in one of the 10 minute slots - whether it is a presentation, a demonstration, a discussion around a problem...
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Whilst preparing demo’s for our design event next week I hit a problem with the out of browser experience in Silverlight 3. I had decided to add the out of browser settings to our 2009 Christmas Card Silverlight application. To do this all you need to...
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After attending Eileen Brown ’s session on Social networking last night , I though I should make more of an effort. So I am giving Twitter Notify a try, so at least there is some activity on my Twitter account when I blog.
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Our Annual Tech Update went well – a good turnout, asking intelligent questions over a great lunch and soaking up our view of the Microsoft Roadmap for 2009, 2010 and beyond. Feedback was positive as ever, with comments that it exceeded expectations...
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Yesterday was the annual Black Marble Tech Update event, where we try to cover every product in the Microsoft arsenal in half a day, telling local businesses what’s coming and what deserves attention. Writing up the content of the presentations would...
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I recently decided to build a demo system for VS2010 Lab Manager. This was for a number of reasons, not least I just wanted to have a proper play with it, but also that I was hoping to do a session on Microsoft Test and Lab Manager at DDD8 (as it turns...
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Last week I got into an interesting discussion via email with Nieve a developer from Lille, France.The chat was on the uptake of Agile and Alt.Net practices in places a bit away from the major development hotspots. We both thought it could make an interesting...
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We lost remarkably few days of productivity to the bad weather at Black Marble. That wasn’t because we were all intrepid, hardy types and all made it into the office. Far from it – some of us live in areas where they don’t grit very often and can’t make...