Mike Fourie has just announced that we’ve just shipped the second stable release of the Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions. Well worth a look if you need to customised your TFS 2010 build with any of the following

• AssemblyInfo

• BuildReport

• BuildWorkspace

• CodeMetric

• DateAndTime

• Email

• File …

Thanks to any one who attended my Typemock Isolator session today, hope you found it useful.

In due course the video will be up on the Typemock site. But of you want to read more on using Isolator with SHarePoint have a look at

• Mocking Sharepoint for Design with Typemock Isolator
• Mocks SP2010 64bit Assemblies with …

There is a good chance if you are using TFS that you will want to create some custom reports. You can write these in Reporting Services via BI Studio or Excel, but I wanted to use Report Builder, but could not see the Report Builder button on this Reporting Services menu

When using TFS2010 It is possible for a build agent to appear to be ready (or so the status label says) but the icon stays in the off state.

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My development laptop is bitlocker’ed, and yours should be too. It provides a great and non-invasive way (assuming you have a TPM chip) to protect you and your clients data on a machine that is far to easy to steal or loose. However, whilst fiddling with Windows 8 I did trip myself up.

I have my PC setup for a boot to …

I tried to install Windows 8 Developer Preview on my Lenovo W520 laptop as a VHD boot. All seemed to go well following the same process as for windows 7. I got a nice new blue Window 8 boot partition choice screen (which went back to the Windows 7 DOS like one after I made Windows 7 my default partition).

If I selected …

If you are editing a TFS process template you have the choice editing XML files or using the Process Template Editor within the TFS 2010 PowerTools. Unfortunately neither is fool proof. You can make errors than means the revised template does not fully work.

The worst of these errors will be picked up when upload the …