Hope everyone enjoyed my session VS2010 at NEBytes last night. I don't now about you but I think that quick end to end demo of build, manual test and Intellitrace debug work very nicely. That was the first time I have done it as a single demo and I think it works better than three smaller ones. Truely shows the …

Just a reminder I am speaking at NEBytes in Newcastle tomorrow on the new features of VS2010. I will be covering project management, architect, dev and test features so something there for everyone.

I upgraded our Beta2 2010 TFS last week, and after a quick local test all appeared to be working OK, so I rushed out the office like you do. However, whilst I have been out the office it was spotted that though it was working within the office using HTTP and the NETBIOSDomain server name (TFSSERVER) it could not be …

Interesting time at QCon yesterday, shame I was only there one day, I do like the events that are not limited to a single vendor or technology. The multi presenter session I was involved in on Microsoft interoperability seemed to go well, there is talk of repeating at other events or podcasting. It is a nice format if …

I am please to be able to announce that I am speaking at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London on the 21st of April. I will be talking about my experiences during the [Prontaprint project](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/CaseStudy.aspx?study=Prontaprint's Website with SharePoint 2007) developing testable …

At the PDC uncle Doug gave birth to a new name for the product formally called Oslo, SQL Modelling Services. While we have all knew the relation to SQL was strong, I do get the feeling that all products will at some point will be a part of SQL. I am now looking forward to Microsoft SQL Server flight simulator. NOTE, in …

The amazing Kodu Game Lab from Microsoft is now available on the PC for trial download, get it here b.

Next weeks Agile Yorkshire meeting with Martin Fowler is now full (and the venue is twice the size of our usual one!). I said it would be popular. There is a reserve list but I would not hold out too much hope.

Updated 25th March 2010 - All the source is now available at the Typemock Add-in site Updated 2nd July 2010 - Some usage notes posted Updated 26th July 2011 - More usage notes Updated 21st Nov 2011 - Typemock Isolator now has direct support for TFS 2010 Build, see usage notes I have previously posted on how you can run …

Of late I keep getting ‘HTTP Error 403: The service you requested is restricted’ when I try to use my HTC Diamond2 mobile phone on Vodafone. I see the problem whether browsing the internet with mobile IE or Opera and also when using the phone as a 3G modem from my Windows 7 laptop. Seems to happen every other day of …