I did a post before going to the MVC summit called Do you need work item hierarchy in TFS? which mentioned the new tools from Notion for TFS. Well there are many ways to skin a cat, and also to produce a hierarchy of TFS work items. Also have a look at Artiso Workitem Manager. This product is interesting as it provides …

As I am sure you will have heard the MVC 1.0 has been released. I downloaded this on my Windows 7 and tried to install it but got an Error 1722, the MSI then rolled back. Turns out the problem was simply that I had Visual Studio open at the time I installed, it needs to be closed. It seems the MSI does not check for …

Black Marble are running a few more exciting and free events for you in April and May. On 30 April, at our usual venue near Leeds, we are hosting an informative SharePoint Workshop (Think Small to Win Big with SharePoint) – looking at how small efficiencies can add to big savings – “Many organisations focus on large …

Over the last week I have received many comments on my recent post about bad apples, it seems to have resonated with a lot of people in the industry ( many of whom already read the great coding horror blog ). The two common questions have been, i) how do you spot it? , ii) what do you do? The first is easier than the …

I love travelling and going to conferences, seeing friends both new and old. Normally the kind events that I attend are technical , architect and developer focused. Now and again I bump into the wonder that is Marketing and Sales who take our beloved technology and add their own terminology, very occasionally I end up …

I am just back from the MVP summit, this is my second time and interestingly I am attending sessions by both the ever lovely Connected Systems Division and the Architects group. it was great to see friends and colleagues both new and old. Mike Nash has posted a “I’m a PC with MVP video” taken at the summit , if you …

Whilst at SC2009 today a request was made by Emad Ghoshen for attendees, and any other developers they knew, to assist him in his PhD research into maintainability of web applications. He asked if people could download some Java/JSP code and answer a few questions on it, don't worry if this is not your usual languages …

Today has been interesting, I have been to conferences where you sit and listen, such as DDD, TechEd etc. I have been to conferences where everyone is encouraged to talk open spaces style such as Alt.Net, but today has fallen between the two styles. The Software Craftsmanship 2009 conference has been in more of a …

Is so have a look at Notion Tools from Team System. This set of tools provides A timesheet based on works items that you access inside Visual Studio A work organizer to manage work items and documents allowing creation of hierarchies A work planner to help schedule resources for future iterations. Well worth a look as …

I have been looking at porting a old content editor I wrote from WinForm to SilverLight and hit the problem there was no HTML editor control available in the standard Silverlight 2 control set. Roll in the excellent SLExtensions controls on CodePlex, to save the day..... Now I did hit one problem with the HTMLEditor, …