At the end of the month I will be speaking at a series of free Microsoft events in Belfast and Dublin. There going to be two session at each location Managing application lifecycle “From requirements to retirement” with Team Foundation Server 2010 Dublin - 31/03/2011 (AM): …

Further to yesterdays post on new bits for VS and TFS 2010, there is now some guidance to what order to apply SP1 to server and clients.

I am doing some work on VS2008 at present and I when I started my VS2008, which I had not used for a while, I was plagued by errors along the lines of "The operation could not be completed". These occurred when running major features such as: Loading LINQ to SQL Designer Running the SQL 2008 Project Wizard …

Today we have seen the release of the Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and the TFS-Project Server Integration Feature Pack. Both are available on the MSDN download site. As well was the new downloads they have announced a change to licensing over Load Test Agent. This gives Visual Studio Ultimate with MSDN users the ability to …

Many development teams hit the problem that they have dependencies on libraries that they do not want to have as part of their solutions. If these dependencies are open source projects then there are options using technologies like NuGet or OpenWrap. However, in many cases the dependency is to an internal project, such …

The March 2011 version of the TFS Power Tools has been released. There are plenty of fixes and enhancements, especially to the TFS backup tool. For more details have a look at Brian Harry’s blog.

If you are developing custom application using the TFS API then there is a good chance you will want to mock out the calls to your TFS server to enable better testing of the business logic in your application. The architecture of the TFS API does not lend itself to mocking using the standard means provided in most …

Back in September I asked the question Does anyone need a VS2010 Custom Build Activity for StyleCop? and a good few people said yes and asked me when the activity would be released. Well I had forgotten to say that the Codeplex TFS Build Extensions project, which the activity code got included into, has made it’s first …

In case you haven’t seen it yet – we have had a Case Study published on the Microsoft Case Studies website, highlighting how our use of Microsoft Best Practices for SharePoint 2010 greatly improved the collaboration experience for West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Services. Initially carrying out a Health Check to improve …

We’ve just put a video of the page templates and editing process up on the AvvisoSharePoint YouTube channel. Our plan is to add more videos over time to show the different things Avviso can do. Enjoy! Update: It seems our Community Server install blocks the embedded youtube object so you’ll need to follow the link to …