- I am really pleased to say I will be speaking at the first Typemock Partner Academy in Olso the week after next. I will be talking about using how we at Black Marble have used Isolator to improve the speed and quality of our SharePoint development.
Read More - I have seen a few tweets after my Techdays session on Lab Management that it sounded expensive. It is true that Lab Management is an extra license to purchase over and above Visual Studio. However under the new licensing model for VS you have to remember that as an MSDN subscriber you are already licensed for a TFS CAL …
Read More - Now that VS2010 has launched the branding of ‘Team System’ has gone; so I am no longer a MVP (Team System) but a MVP (Visual Studio ALM).
Read More - 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.
Read More 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 RequestSetup information Physical Web path: C:ProjectsTestTypeMockSampleTestWebSite Actual path: …
Read More- 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 …
Read More - 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 …
Read More - 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 …
Read More 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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
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