I posted a while ago on using my Typemock TMockRunner Custom Activity for Team Build 2010. I left that post with the problem that if you wished to customise a template after you a had added the custom activity you had to use the somewhat complex branching model edit the XAML.

If you just followed the process in my post …

The last of the recent batch of  announcements is that of the first official release of the TFS Integration Platform. This provides tools to allow synchronisation between TFS 2010 and …..

• TFS 2008
• TFS 2010
• ClearCase
• ClearQuest
• File System

Again more details on Brian Harry’s blog.

In the VSLive! keynote Microsoft made announcements about Lab Management, it will be RTM’d later this month and best of all it will be included as part of the benefits of the Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN and Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 with MSDN SKUs. You can read more detail on Brian Keller’s blog

I …

[Also see Running MSDeploy to a remote box from inside a TFS 2010 Build (Part 2)] 

A fellow MVP Ewald Hofman wrote a great post on getting an Web Application to deploy as part of a TFS 2010 build. I have been using this technique but found a few points that were not right in the original post, I assume these are down …

Now I know this should be simple and obvious but I had a few problems today publishing a web service to a new IIS7 host. These are the steps I had to follow to get around all my errors:

1. Take a patched Windows Server 2008 R2, this had the File Server and IIS roles installed.

2. I install MSDeploy ( …

Earlier today I was trying to use the Outlook Social Connector for Linked-in Facebook and live but it would not display the View/People Pane

the answer was odd after ensuring the add in was selected in File/Options/Addins, I changed the registry

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOfficeOutlookSocialConnector …

If you have VS2010 Premium or Ultimate [Professional corrected error in orginal post]  you have code coverage built into the test system. When you look at your test results there is a button to see the code coverage

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