I recently decided to build a demo system for VS2010 Lab Manager. This was for a number of reasons, not least I just wanted to have a proper play with it, but also that I was hoping to do a session on Microsoft Test and Lab Manager at DDD8 (as it turns out my session did not get voted for, maybe better luck for DDS, …

Last week I got into an interesting discussion via email with Nieve a developer from Lille, France.The chat was on the uptake of Agile and Alt.Net practices in places a bit away from the major development hotspots. We both thought it could make an interesting post so, here goes, starting with Nieve’s first post….. …

We lost remarkably few days of productivity to the bad weather at Black Marble. That wasn’t because we were all intrepid, hardy types and all made it into the office. Far from it – some of us live in areas where they don’t grit very often and can’t make it to the main roads. As you guessed from the title, the reason we …

Updated 2nd March 2010: Altered the sample arguments see this post for more details Updated 27th Jan 2010: Gian Maria Ricci, another Team System MVP has done some more work on this problems and posted on how to create a custom activity to address the problem. I have been looking at getting automated builds running on …

The voting has opened for DDS, time to make your voice heard as what sessions you would like to see

I recently saw an interesting problem install a TFS proxy (in my case it was on an existing TFS 2005 system using Window Server 2003 for the proxy host, but the problem could be seen on any version f TFS). The installation appeared to go fine, and when a Visual Studio client requested files, via the proxy, files …

Today Typemock released their Isolator 6.0 version with full support for VS2010. Check out the full announcement at their site, there some nice new features there.

I have been on a customer site today, locked in a machine room, and so have managed to miss the opening and closing of registration for DDD8. So, as neither of my session’s got enough votes (too test based I guess for the developer mainstream) to be on the schedule I guess I will not be attending. Maybe I will have …

The next generation of visual studio tips of the day are here courtesy of Zain Naboulsi, a Developer Evangelist at Microsoft who is stepping into some very big shoes (metaphorically,eep) of Sara Ford. read Zain’s posts here, but wait there's more he is also providing videos as well :) b.

I have at last got round to setting up a full installation VS 2010 Test and Lab Manager using the excellent notes from the Lab Management Team. Whist installing the build server portion I got a strange set of errors. TF255425: An error occurred while installing the following Windows service: TFSBuildServiceHost.exe. …