I have a couple of community speaking engagements coming up May 11 BCS Edinburgh on Agile Methods July 21 NxtGen Southampton on Test Driven development and mocking Both are free, so if you are in the either area, I would be surprised if you were at both given the locations, I hope you can come along

I posted in the past about my though processes on getting a Kindle, they boiled down to to Why do the books cost virtually as much as paper edition when the author gets no more royalties and the production/distribution costs as far lower? I don’t want an extra device to carry about Well I have been using the WP7 Kindle …

Recently I posted on How to use the TFS 2010 Community StyleCop Build Activity and I am sure it all sounded very awkward and complex, well it did to me. The point I should have made is that you don’t have to follow this process every time you want to make use of the custom activity. As long as the build process …

Over the holiday I have been reading Professional Foundation Server 2010 by Ed Blankenship, Martin Woodward, Grant Holiday and Brian Keller, yes I know how to have time off and have fun! So who is this book for? It is a comprehensive guide to TFS 2010, the components and their usage, but this does not mean the book is …

I am always being asked when at events for details of books I have recommended. So I have added a list of books I have found useful to this blog, it can be found at http://blogs.blackmarble.co.uk/blogs/rfennell/pages/reading-list.aspx. Thus far I have added the ones I have been looking at recently, but will add more as …

Microsoft as ever have been busy with new drops and SP1 refreshes of technology for us all to embrace and here is a summary update for this month The Microsoft F# (2.0.0.0), April 2011 Community Technology Preview is available here While not all new if you are looking at F# I would suggest keeping an eye on F# …

[Updated 27th April 2011 Also see How to use the TFS 2010 Community StyleCop Build Actvity (Addendum)] The Codeplex Community TFS Build Extensions contains a StyleCop activity, but the way to use it is less than obvious. This is not helped by the complexity in using any custom activity within TFS 2010 builds. In this …

A while ago I posted on my experiences running multiple instances of 2010 build service on a single VM. Well a couple more experiences as now one of my VM is running 3 instances. Firstly it seems to work OK, you have to have the right build profile i.e. fairly low load but a need to support many Team Project …

Over the weekend we have released Black Marble’s WP7 TFS Phone client to the WP7 Marketplace. This app allows the user of a WP7 phone to access their TFS server to perform common operations. They can: See recent builds and drill into the results Queue new builds View and add work items This client talks via a custom …

When trying to create a new Team Project on TFS2010 from a client PC I got the following error Event Description: TF30162: Task "UploadStructure" from Group "Classification" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Inner Exception Details: Exception Message: TF205029: No …