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.

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 …

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/> In case you haven’t seen it yet – we have had a Case Study published on the Microsoft Case Studies website, …

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 …

Whilst doing some tidying on a multi-server TFS 2010 system I needed to move a team project collection from one Application Tier (AT) to another. Both ATs (which were not a load balanced pair) shared the same SQL server data tier (DT). It should have been easy using the TFS Administration Console.

I backed up the TPC …

When loading an ASP.NET 3.5 web application that has been compiler for Any CPU onto an IIS7 server I got the error

The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.

This was because the server was running a 64bit OS and only the 32bit Access Driver was installed. The quick fix to get this …

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I am really chuffed to have been invited back to NEBytes for a follow-up to my last session on content …