As I am sure you remember a few months ago Microsoft bought Teamprise and their Java clients for TFS. Well the team has got out their first Microsoft branded release, details can be found on Martin Woodward’s and Brian Harry’s blogs. This beta provides the first support for TFS2010 This release is very timely as I will …

Following our popular Architect Insight Forum in the North, Black Marble is delighted to bring you Microsoft TechDays in the North Microsoft are celebrating a number of product launches and innovations during TechDays: a week of technology and social events. Black Marble is joining in with a Northern event exploring …

Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for BizTalk 2006R2, it includes a rollup of all of the hotfixes issued so far as well as Get it Here b.

I recently had the great pleasure in reviewing Jon Flanders great white paper on ESB 2.0. Jon has a knack of nailing things down and ignoring the fact I am a fan of ESB 2.0 I think you should read this as soon as possible,better still print a copy off and give it a gift to a loved one who has not had the joy of knowing …

A slight change to the usually arrangement this month at Agile Yorkshire. The speaker will Martin Fowler who will be talking on “Software Design in the 21st Century”, but the meeting will be on the 17th March (which is a week later than usual) and at a new venue The Adelphi in Leeds. This promises to be a very …

Black Marble is delighted to support the Microsoft campaign for Sport Relief – GiveWithBing.com. For every 10 searches made, Bing.com will donate 5p to Sport Relief 2010 raising money just by searching with Bing until the end of March. If you have any questions: Read the FAQ

Some DDD event news Registration has opened for DDD Scotland There is a call for speakers at DDD South West There is a call for speakers at SQLBits If you have never been to a DDD style event before why not give it a try; they are free and you are sure to learn something. Unlike the DDD events in Reading these ones …

I have been doing some more work integrating Typemock and VS 2010 Team Build. I have just wasted a good few hours wondering why my test results are not being published. If I looked at the build log I saw my tests ran (and pass or failed as expected) and then were published without error. But when I checked the build …

I find one of the most often overlooked new features of 2010 is the Symbol Server. This is a file share where the .PDB symbol files are stored for any given build (generated by a build server, see Jim Lamb’s post on the setup). If you look on the symbol server share you will see directories for each built assembly with …

This year’s DDD South West has been announced for the 5th of June in Bristol, for details see the dddsouthwest.com site