I am down in London for the first two days of the Microsoft TechDays event. First day has been very interesting, there seems to be a good buzz over the new testing features. So it looks good for my session tomorrow when I will be presenting on Lab Manager hope to see you there.

When I tried to run a working Ivonna test, previously targeted at .NET 3.5, against .NET 4 I found my test failing with the error ------ Test started: Assembly: Webpart.Tests.dll ------ Bad Request Setup information Physical Web path: C:ProjectsTestTypeMockSampleTestWebSite Actual path: …

Whilst preparing for my session at Techdays I have upgraded my 2010 Beta2 Lab Manager to RC. I am pleased to say the process is far more straight forward than the initial install. Again I used the Lab Manager team blog as my guide, they have revised ‘Getting started with Lab Management 2010 RC’ Parts 1, 2 ,3 and 4 …

I was at the AIC 2010 conference yesterday, which I enjoyed more than last year. The most interesting session was Ivar Jacobson. He discussed how immature our industry is, with its disjoint between software engineers and academic computer scientists. Something I have commented on before when discussing if our industry …

Today Scott Guthrie VP in the developer division at Microsoft announced Soylent# the new "composite" language from Microsoft. Scott said in his announcement that developers were tired of a wide choice of languages that allowed them to tackle a wide variety of problems and instead wanted a single development …

In 2008 I wrote a post Running Fitnesse.NET tests using MSTest. Recently I had need to us this technique on a VS2010 project, and as is so often the issue the code that worked then does not seem to work now. All I can assume is that the Fitnesse API had altered, but I thought I was using the same assemblies! So I …

I my previous post I discussed how the DB label was not used for TPC Dbs in 2010. As I was working on a setup where a central SQL box was the DT for two virtualised TFS AT instances, I therefore needed to create my TPC databases manually if I wanted TPCs of the same name on each TFS instance. I won’t go over the [old …

When I said will our internet bits were back I was not quite right. I had forgotten that I had not re-pointed m own richardfennell domains to put to my blog. These are now done, so I hope all search results to my blog should resolve OK.

If your application has a dependency on an assembly built in .NET 2 you will see the error below if you try to run your application when it has been built in.NET 4. Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration …

Found out something I did not know today, the TFS 2010 database label is only used for the server’s own primary configuration databases not for the DBs for the TPC it creates. For example on a 2010 RC install with the database label was set to RC during the installation. When I try to create a new TPC (called ABC) it …