In the 27th June I will be speaking on Lab Management at Microsoft’s “Application Lifecycle Management for Independent Software Vendors” event at TVP.

For more details see the Microsoft event site

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/> Can’t make it to London for Microsoft TechDays?  Microsoft is running Connected Development in …

Whist trying to do a cross domain migration of some source between two TFS2010 servers, I got the less than helpful runtime exception

System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: activeWorkspace
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Migration.Tfs2010VCAdapter.TfsUtil.CleanWorkspace(Workspace …

Spelunking through the internet I came across a project at Microsoft to engage people with various Microsoft Technologies using comic form. Black Marble have been producing Xmas comics over the last few years and the results have been great.

The series of comics follows “Squishy” the stress ball, Leah and Zach in a …

Great news the Black Marble’s WP7 TFS Phone client has won one of the three top prizes on  Red Gate Software’s Windows Phone 7 Competition

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Are you unsure how TFS 2010 hangs together or what is entailed in installing it?

Well never fear, Microsoft are hosting a webcast on the 12th May that will be given by Black Marble’s own Robert Hancock one of our ALM consultants, which will explain all.

To register check the Microsoft events site

There are still space on the “Connected Development” event, a free event hosted by Black Marble and supported by Microsoft TechDays, on the 26th of May.

I am one of a number of speakers from Microsoft and Gold ALM Partners who will be talking about the latest news and announcements for Application Lifecycle Management …

Grant Holiday posted on how to create a TPC using Powershell. However his post did not address how to set the SharePoint or Reporting Services parameters. His example used for the form

Dictionary<string, string> servicingTokens = new Dictionary<string, string>(); …

I have recently been looking at the EMC Scrum for Team Systems (SFTS) 3 Template for TFS 2010 with SharePoint 2010. The core of it works, and works well for Scrum based teams. If you have not used it before have a read of the getting started post to get a feel of what it can do.

However, there are some issues when you …