Thanks to everyone who attended yesterdays Black Marble event ‘Enabling agile development with cool tools’, both Gary Short’s and my sessions seemed well received. I was asked if my slides would be available anywhere, well the answer is no. The reason for this is that my session was mostly demo driven, so the slides …

Frustrating errors with little or no explanation… Once again I find myself wiring a blog post in order to save people the time we spent figuring out what was going on and getting help with our fault. We have Microsoft Threat Management Gateway installed at our perimeter. The Exchange 2010 Edge Connector is also …

We are delighted by the response to our Annual Technical Update for Microsoft Technologies this year. The event is perfect as an introduction to Black Marble events, as well as providing a Roadmap for all-things Microsoft. Ideal for planning your business’ IT needs for the next twelve months. Having raised your …

After much delay I have at last got our internal Lab Management running on ‘real’ hardware as opposed to it’s initial home on a demo rig PC. We have just been too busy to find the time to reconfigure and redeploy our own kit! You know how it is ‘a plumber’s house is full of drippy taps’. That said I of course still …

A new toolkit for Windows Phone 7 has been released on Coding4Fun. The toolkit includes Controls,Converters and Helpers. (update) Get it here With Controls such as About Prompt Input Prompt Progress Overlay Round Button Round Toggle Button Memory Counter TimeSpan Picker I suspect that most WP7 developers should look at …

I have spent today preparing my presentation and demos for the Black Marble event next week [Enabling Agile Development with Cool Tools](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Enabling Agile Development with Cool Tools). I will be presenting with Gary Short of DevExpress. He is going to be talking about …

Microsoft has had a good but generally unknown history of producing really quite remarkable Mathematics additions to its OS’s and Applications Microsoft has just published a new version 4.0 get it here Math contains Graphing calculator allows 2D and 3D colour graphing. Formulas and Equations Library more than 100 …

I was searching for a manual for my US Blu-Ray Player and I stumbled across Retevo which has a very large collection of manuals for consumer products. b.

Whist trying to make use of a custom build activity I got the error TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition Tfsdemo1Candy: Cannot create unknown type '{clr-namespace:TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.CodeQuality;assembly=TfsBuildExtensions.Activities.StyleCop}StyleCop' This occurred when …

I asked the question a while ago if I should buy a Kindle? I still think that new books are too expensive, but as there are loads of out of copyright books available for the platform so I did not hesitate to download the Windows Phone 7 Kindle app today. You never know when you need something to read and what could be …