You may have noticed that Microsoft have had another burst of renaming. The tester’s tool in VS2010 started with the codename of Camaro during the CTP phase, this became Microsoft Test & Lab Manager (MTLM) in the Beta 1 and 2 and now in the RC it is call Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).

Other than me constantly …

A bit a a double question here, physically I have been at the the MVP Summit in Redmond, having a great time with my fellow “Team System” MVPs and the Microsoft product group members.

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A late reminder but tonight is the monthly Agile Yorkshire meeting. This month is an open floor meeting with short presentations from members. Currently the planned subjects are:

• REST and OpenRasta
• Silverlight
• F#
• Thoughts on Test Driven Development practices
• Behaviour Driven Development

Hope to see you there, usual …

I was doing some work today where I needed to fake out a SPWeb object. No problem you think, I am using Typemock Isolator so I just use the line

var fakeWeb = Isolate.Fake.Instance();

But I got the error

Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.SPWebConstructor(SPSite site, String url, Boolean bExactWebUrl, SPRequest request) …

Anybody who works will SharePoint will grumble if you mention DCOM activation permissions. No matter how hard we try, how many patches we install (or how hard we try to ignore it), granting activation and launch permissions to the SharePoint service accounts is like plugging a dike with water-soluble filler.

On Server …

I have been looking at TFS 2010 Lab Manager recently. One problem I had was that using the sample code from the Lab Manager Blog Walkthru the building of the CALC ASP.NET web site failed on the build server, I got an error

ASPNETCOMPILER: error 1003 The directory ‘c:build1LabWalkthruCalculator –BuildCalc’ does not …