My Team Build 2010 custom activity for Typemock Isolator is now available at http://site.typemock.com/add-ons/. It is packaged as a zip which include all the source and a compiled assembly as well a document detailing usage and why the solution is constructed as it is. Hope you find it useful

I recently tried to use Typemock Isolator inside a ASP.NET page load event, to fake out some SharePoint SPLists e.g. protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { SPSite fakeSite = Isolate.Fake.Instance(); …….. } This has worked in the past but using VS2010RC and Isolator 6.0.1.0 it failed. If running VS2010 …

Our new Internet line has now been commissioned fully and hopefully any problems you may have had accessing my blog via the blackmarble.com or co.uk domains should be over.

Whilst upgrading a single server instance of TFS 2010 Beta2 to the RC I got a TF254024 error. This occurred at the point in the upgrade wizard where it tries to list the databases available to upgrade. The reason for the error was the account I was logged in as (the domain administrator in my case) did not have rights …

Windows 7 is a great bit of software, the only major downside was the support for virtual PC which until now only ran on a hardware assisted virtualisation (HAV) processor and supported hardware that is also enabled in the BIOS ( like the PDC tablet I am typing this on ). However for people without this blessing …

At last Microsoft has released a new generation of phone for a new generation of applications, This post is my up-to-date resource list for Windows Phone 7, I will keep this list up-to-date with new and interesting pieces of Information. Resources The Developer pages for Windows Phone 7 here The Windows Phone …

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 for an estimated retail price of £484.99. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or any other development tool then you are eligible for this upgrade. Along with all the great new features in Visual Studio 2010 (see …

Updated 25th Mar when I found I have three sessions I have just heard that I had two three sessions accepted for the Norwegian Developers Conference. They are: Putting Some Testing Into Your TFS Build Making Manual Testing a Part of Your Development Process Developing Testable Web Parts for SharePoint. So off to Oslo, …

For some reason that is beyond me now I did not setup my Lab Manager test system to be a VHD boot. So before installing the 2010 RC version I decided to P2V this system (on the same hardware) to make backups easier whilst testing. All seemed to go well I used IMAGEX to create a WIM of the disk Created an empty VHD Used …

Recently, Black Marble took part in a Video Case Study for Microsoft, extolling the virtues of how we use SharePoint and the Microsoft platform for working with our customers. It was an interesting experience – we usually prefer to let the technology do the talking – but the company (CredComms) putting it together were …