Don’t be a muppet like me and turn up for an Agile Yorkshire meeting on the 2nd Wednesday of the month out of habit. Due to the move to the great new location of the Old Broadcasting House the regular date has had to moved to the 2nd Tuesday. Bit of a pain for me as I struggle to make Tuesdays.

I got this commonly seen version error when I tried to upgrade my RC version of Office 2010 to RTM Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): Microsoft Office 2010 does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of Microsoft Office 2010. You must first install any prerelease versions of Microsoft …

This time for Visual Studio 2010, CodeRush Xpress is a great developer productivity tool from DevExpress. Microsoft has made arrangements with Developer Express to make its CodeRush Xpress product available as a free download to any customer with a full Visual Studio license (i.e. not express). CodeRush Xpress includes …

The new Silverlight 4 tools are now baked and fresh out of the oven get them here b.

Visual Studio 2010 provides many new features to aid Application Lifecycle Management. Learning its capabilities can be a bit daunting, especially if you are new to Team Foundation Server. So enter the new book ‘Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010: with Team Foundation Server 2010’ by …

Got time today to start our proper internal TFS 2010 rollout. This involves linking up the new TFS to our SharePoint 2010 farm and merging in the contents from 2008 TFS and 2010 RC servers. All went fairly well, our SharePoint farm caused a few problems with its rather nice redirection feature. This allows you to …

A while ago I blogged about the problems I was having with 403 error when trying to use my HTC phone as a 3G modem or using Opera or IE on the phone itself. When I initially complained Vodafone refunded my data fee for the month and said engineers were onto this known intermittent issue. No grief, Ok I did not want to …

After upgrade TFS 2010 RC to RTM you might see a problem when you try to create a new team project. The creation fails with error: Module: Engine Event Description: TF30162: Task "Queries" from Group "WorkItemTracking" failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception …

I have an article posted on the Typemock Insider blog about the Typemock Academy I attended.

I recently did an in-place upgrade of a TFS 2010 RC to RTM box. All appeared to be going fine, all the verification in the upgrade wizard passed, but when I hit configure the first step failed. It said there was a missing dbo.sysobjects in the warehouse DB. I then had to resort the configuration DB as it was partly …