for everybody who is now steeped in the last leg of the upgrade trail here is AppFabric for 2010 RTM get it here b.

I am off to Oslo, for the first time, for the Typemock Academy this week. The event has managed to survive the disruption of the Icelandic volcano. A great chance to meet a pile of people I have only spoken toon the phone or via email in the past. Looking forward to it.

As many of you know I am a huge fan of StyleCop and so when Microsoft announced that StyleCop will soon have a C# 4.0 version (StyleCop version 4.4) but that it will also become open source under the MS-PL license, by means of a CodePlex project, and all future development on StyleCop will be done from that CodePlex …

In my previous post I talked about using Isolator to mock Sharepoint to aid the speed of the development process. I find this a productive way of working, but it does not really help in the realm of automated testing. You need a way to programmatically explore a webpart, preferably outside of SharePoint to check its …

I have found the most productive use of Typemock Isolator with SharePoint is to use it to reduce the time of the F5 cycle (build/deploy/use). If you are using a VPC of some type to do your SharePoint development, as many do, this process can easily take a couple minutes, and these minutes add up. In my experience …

I am on the way home from my whistle stop visit to the SharePoint Evolution conference. I must say congratulations to the organisers for putting on such a successful event given all the problems they have had related to speakers and air travel, well done. My slides, on Testing Webparts with Typemock, will appear on the …

I am nearly back up and running after Mix in Vegas, I managed to dislocate my shoulder at the end of the trips (show girls are heavier than they look). During the visit, Lauren and I revisited the Coca Cola shop/bottle on the strip to retry the taste of Coca Cola. The Winners were: Inca Cola – Peru Sunfill Mint – India …

I have just heard I will be speaking at Developer Day South West on June the 5th. My subject is Using the new Developer and Test features of VS 2010 to track down and fix bugs, this is basically the same session as I have at our TechDays fringe event yesterday. Hope to see you there

Thanks to everyone who turned up for Matt Nunn’s and my sessions in Leeds today. All seemed to go well and were well received. As my slide stack consisted of a a welcome screen and an agenda I don’t really see the point of posting them on web. If you want to see the end to end story of VS2010 ALM I would suggest …

Whist at the the UK Techdays I did a video with Rob Miles. You an see the results here, we are near the end. A full video of my session should be available on the Microsoft UK Techdays site soon