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Running Fitnesse.NET tests using MSTest
18 July 08 11:00 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

I have been looking at Fitnesse.NET for a while; if you have not come across this testing tool I cannot recommend Gojko Adzic book highly enough; an excellent real world introduction to Fitnesse.NET. For me, the problem with Fitnesse is that it's...

Filed under: Testing, VSTS

New Team System Power Tools
17 July 08 11:19 AM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

The July edition of the Team System power tools have just been released. To pick out just one of a great set of tools - have a look at the Alert Editor, a really easy way to wire up external events handler to do things when TFS events occur.

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Publishing a ASP.NET WCF service encryption error
08 July 08 10:30 AM | Richard | with no comments

I was trying to publish a .NET 3.5 WCF service to a network share e.g.\\myserver\share\folder_to_holdservice and got the error "The specified file could not be encrypted" for all the files. I changed to a publish to the local disk it published...

Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS

Bug tracking with TFS
06 July 08 11:37 PM | Richard | with no comments

I have posted in the past about my efforts to write a user facing bug tracking interface for TFS to integrate with our SharePoint based customer portal. I have had some mixed success , but the end point is that I am just not happy with what I have written...

Filed under: VSTS, Sharepoint, Opinion

Wow I'm an MVP
02 July 08 09:42 AM | Richard | 5 comment(s)

Found out last night that I have just been made an MVP for Team System, is that cool or what!

Filed under: VSTS, MVP

TFS Team Build compile details
23 June 08 09:31 PM | Richard | with no comments

Martin Woodward posted a few weeks ago about his build bunny . Now this is something I had tried a while ago for DDD4 , but hit the same problem Martin had that the old Nabaztag API was too slow and messages could take hours to arrive, making it useless...

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CA0055 error in FXCop
20 June 08 05:29 PM | Richard | with no comments

I have been setting up a new Team Build server today. All our projects are being set to do code analysis (FXCop) after the build. For one project this worked on the developer PC but failed on the build machine. The CA0055 error means 'file not found'...

Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS

TFS Build server and running MSTest - directory creation error
12 June 08 12:37 PM | Richard | with no comments

When you create a build type for a team project on TFS you can enable testing using MSTest by saying 'run any tests that are found in a given DLL'. I used this today to create a CI build for a project, I am looking at using Team Build as opposed...

Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS

New CTP Release for VS2008 Database Edition
03 June 08 08:55 PM | Richard | with no comments

Typical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version! See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.

Filed under: VSTS, SQL

New TFS stuff that has just been published
13 May 08 09:11 PM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

Yesterday we had the first drop of the VS2008 SP1 Beta, well there is also one for TFS2008 . As with the main VS2008 service pack there are loads of fixes and some new features. Support for Windows Server 2008. Support for SQL Server Codename Katmai CTP6...

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Developer Day Scotland
11 May 08 10:11 PM | Richard | 2 comment(s)

Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful. The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site . There is also a web cast of a virtual identical presentation...

Filed under: VSTS, Events, DDD, Extreme Programming Club, altnetuk

Fixed Sprint Burndown chart for eScrum on TFS 2008
09 May 08 03:01 PM | Richard | with no comments

Since updating to TFS 2008 we have lost our Sprint Burndown chart in eScrum, not a major problem as we use the cumulative flow in its place. However, I have eventually got round to fixing it. It turns out the problem is down to the the way the dates for...

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Registry Access Errors with the TFS API
09 May 08 10:45 AM | Richard | 1 comment(s)

If you are using the TFS API within a WebApp with impersonation there is a good chance you will see the error below when you run the web site on IIS System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed. at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException...

Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS

I want a TFS 64bit API
29 April 08 02:26 PM | Richard | with no comments

The lack of 64Bit TFS API DLLs is becoming a real pain for me. We have committed to a 64Bit server architecture for all our IIS and hence MOSS servers; both of these seem unable to WOW64 the 32bit TFS DLLs (though Cassini can!) so I cannot load any web...

Filed under: VSTS, Opinion

Community Launch Events
07 April 08 02:28 PM | Richard | with no comments

A busy time in the next few weeks for free community launch events for Windows 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008 . This week we at Black Marble are hosting a series of three evening events ( See online booking ) where you can see virtually the whole...

Filed under: VSTS, Events, SQL

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