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#DDDNorth registration has opened
Richard Fennell Sep 5, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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The agenda is up for DDDNorth, seems .JS related subjects are the fashionable topics for this conference. As I suspected my session on build customisation did not make the cut, just not cool enough!
As with all DDD events the event is free, but the place tend to go quickly. I think this DDD has 300 spaces so I suggest …

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Verifying non–public methods have been called using Typemock Isolator in VB.Net
Richard Fennell Sep 3, 2011 · 3 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I am currently writing some training material for a client on mocking showing how life is so much easier if software is designed with testing in mind. As part of this material I showing that though we aim for nice design patterns which allow testing we have to deal with legacy systems that were not designed this way. …
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You can vote now for sessions at #dddnorth
Richard Fennell Aug 30, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Session voting has opened at DDD North, vote for what you would like to see at the conference in October
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Problem setting an email alert for the TFS 2010 Power Tools backup
Richard Fennell Aug 25, 2011 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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One of the very useful features of the TFS 2010 Power Tools is that it provides a backup wizard, great for teams using TFS who don’t have much SQL/IT Pro experience. Whist setting this up on a server I hit an interesting gotta with sending alerts.
This TFS server in question was configured to enable SMTP alerting (via …

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TF80070 when loading a team query in MS Project
Richard Fennell Aug 24, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I create a number of task work items in TFS 2010 using a list in Excel. This all appeared to work OK, and I could run a work item query in Team Explorer and see all my new work items. However then I tried to open the work item query in Project I got a TF80070 error. It loaded the work items up a point in the list then …
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One week left to submit a session for DDDNorth
Richard Fennell Aug 22, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Any session submissions for DDDNorth have to be in by Friday the 26th.
Go on you must have something you want to talk about……..

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New release of TFS 2010 Power Tools
Richard Fennell Aug 20, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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The latest set of TFS 2010 power tools are out, well worth updating if you are using the March release, and if not using any version a definite install.
There are major update across the board, summary details can be found on Brian Harry’s blog. With the main release note and download on Visual Studio Gallery

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Windows search not starting, making itself disabled on a reboot
Richard Fennell Aug 19, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Since I got my new laptop I have had a problem that the Windows Search services in Windows 7 keeps setting itself to be Disabled whenever I restart the the PC. I usually notice this when I try to do a search in Outlook and I have to press enter in the search box to start a search, it is not matching emails as soon as I …
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New TFS 2010 Community TFS Build Extension documentation – nUnit
Richard Fennell Aug 19, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have just posted new ‘how to use it 101’ documentation for the nUnit activity on the community extensions site.
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New TFS 2010 Community TFS Build Extension documentation – TFSVersion
Richard Fennell Aug 18, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have just posted new ‘how to use it 101’ documentation for the TFSVersion activity on the community extensions site.
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