There is a new user group starting up in the North East. It is taking an interestingly route of having meetings with two one hour sessions, one targeted at developers and the other for IT pros. The user group is free and there will be food and giveaways, I like this idea, the danger with too many user groups is that …

REGISTER ONLINE Following the success of our Visual Studio 2010/ALM with TFS events in Yorkshire and London, we are now taking it to Microsoft in Edinburgh. MVP for Team Foundation Server Richard Fennell and Microsoft’s Giles Davies return with an exploration of developer tools and application lifecycle management. …

Prologue This post is about assigning an SSL certificate to an IIS 7.5-hosted website which is not located in the Personal Certificate store. The steps shown are not SharePoint-specific, however. Hopefully this post will save you the large amount of time I spent hunting down the information on how to do this. The usual …

Welcome to 2010 … and more great events from Black Marble! The 27th January kicks off with our Annual Tech Update – a complete roadmap of all things Microsoft. We will shine a light on the big releases of 2009, the highlights of Office and Visual Studio 2010, as well as the releases you might have missed. The afternoon …

Like the Queen, I have recorded a Christmas message this year. Now I have no prior knowledge of what her Majesty will speak about this year, but I will lay good odds it is not about using Typemock Isolator. On the Typemock site you will find a short video on how we at Black Marble make use of Isolator to tackle testing …

The Black Marble Brigade have finally foiled Professor iNfamy’s nefarious schemes … time to kick back and relax! We at Black Marble wish you all a very merry Christmas and happy New Year! This year, Black Marble are making a donation The Bletchley Park Trust and The National Museum of Computing for every card sent … …

Ten labs for AppFabric and .Net 4 are available on MSDN virtual labs. These labs cover .Net 4 Beta 2 and AppFabric Beta 1. Simple Console Workflow Introduction to Workflow Services and AppFabric Implementing More Complex Control Flow and Logic with WF4 Activity Designers and Designer Re Hosting in WF4 Building a …

AppFabric has a release today, get it here b.

There any many good document on how to migrate a TFS server from it’s default ports of 8080 (tfs) and 80 (Sharepoint/Reports) to 8443 and 443, usuall to allow Internet access. A good place to start is Aaron Block’s post on the subject I did find a problem whist sorting this on a system today, this was that although we …

Episode Five of Yule Time Travel is now available … can the Black Marble Brigade stop Professor iNfamy from wiping out Operating Systems as we know them? This year, Black Marble are making a donation The Bletchley Park Trust and The National Museum of Computing for every card sent … these organisations need your …