Next week I am speaking at: The West Yorkshire BCS on “Application Lifecycle Management - supporting the software development process from inception to retirement” , Wednesday 20 July 2011, 6.30pm (refreshments available from 5.45pm) at NTI Leeds, Old Broadcasting House, 148 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EN. and NxtGen …
Read MoreWhist on the road I have had need to access our Lab Management system via our TMG firewall through which we expose our TFS 2010 for remote users (via SSL). When I load Microsoft Tests Manager (MTM) I can connect to the TFS server, as expected, and go into ‘Lab Center’ mode. I can see my project’s environment and can …
Read MoreWhen trying to create a new Team Project on my test TFS 2010 basic installation I got the error Time: 2011-07-05T11:43:36 Module: Engine Event Description: TF30162: Task "BuildTask" from Group "Build" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Multiple identities found …
Read MoreThe first stable release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been shipped. It contains around 100 activities. It is hoped that this project will be be shipping on a 2 to 3 month cycle in the future. So have a look, this project provides many ways to extend your build process. And if you have ideas for more …
Read MoreI am really pleased to say I have been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM for 2011, this is my fourth year. I am looking forwarded to another year of working with such a great crowd of people.
Read MoreA series of updates are available for Enterprise Library and Unity and a few other bits of general interest There is an update for the Enterprise Library 5.0 which is only required if you are using the Silverlight Integration Pack and need WCF RIA Services Integration or configuration tool support. get it here However …
Read MoreNew BizTalk 2009 and Adapter Pack 2.0 as recently had some rollup updates Cumulative Update Package 1 for BizTalk Server 2009 (KB 2429050) contains 60 fixes get it here Cumulative Update Package 1 for BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.0 (KB 2444952) contains 11 fixes get it here. More great news, There is now a poster available …
Read MoreI looked back and realised I had missed a few updates to post ( I blame Microsoft for bringing out lots of great things all at once ) Light switch Beta 2 is out get it here, the site now suggests that a July 26th launch date is on the cards StyleCop 4.5 has now been released get it here , if you haven’t tried StyleCop, …
Read MoreThanks to everyone who came today’s ISV session at TVP. You can find all the slides from the event at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ukisvdev/archive/2011/06/27/slides-and-links-from-alm-and-visual-studio-2010-event-on-the-27th-june-2010.aspx
Read MoreThe videos from the various Microsoft UK Techdays events can now be viewed at the UK TechDays site. This includes my session on ‘Virtualisation of the Test Environment’ and the joint one I did with James Mann on the new experience for developing SharePoint solutions in VS2010 from the Leeds event.
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