At todays Azure event I heard a new word for my occasional buzz word posts. Marketechture - an architecture designed by marketing for use in Powerpoint

During our recent outing to TVP, Dell Quinn, Partner Programme Manager, took the opportunity to interview Boss for her “Save to Gain” podcast in the “Business Advisor” series. This is a set of podcasts featuring commentary from Microsoft executives, independent experts and partners discussing topical business issues. …

You can now register for SQLBits IV in Manchester on the 28th March, hurry if you want to attend as these free conferences do tend to full up quick

The Developer & Platform Group at Microsoft are bringing their cloud based Azure Services Platform Roadshow to Black Marble’s HQ here in Bradford. Same great food you get at all our events … as well as great content! Takes place on 13 February (9:30 registration for 10:00 start), here at BIC, Angel Way, Bradford, …

Thanks to everyone who voted for my session 'Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System', it was successful in the selection process and so will be on the agenda at SQLBits IV on 28th March 2009 in Manchester Hope to see you there.

The steps in this article were figured out with Windows 7. However, they should work just fine with Vista for anybody having the same issues. Note that whilst this is written for ATI hardware, it may be the case that NVidia gear suffers from the same problem and this solution should help. Background first. I spent a …

I have been getting the error "The required version of the .NET Framework is not installed on this computer." (event id 4096 in Event log) when trying to install a VSTO application from both a ClickOnce deployment and a local copy. This is interesting as the .NET framework is installed (on my 64bit Windows 7 …

One of the things I am most impressed about with Windows 7 is the latest Media Center. As a result, I wanted to install the build 7000 beta release onto our media PC at home. However, I already have that working nicely with Windows Vista and, frankly, I didn’t want to have to repeatedly reinstall if the beta caused …

I know of two free events next week in Yorkshire next week for those interested : On Wednesday the 11th is the regular meeting of the Agile Yorkshire user group, where we will be enjoying a presentation on Test Driven Development by user group regulars Adam and Neil from Masternaut ThreeX. This will start at 7pm as …

Having just spent a long time examining the state of a new farm we’ve been working on for demonstrations, I would like to issue a warning… The Problem: None of the ‘New…’ menu items in our document libraries would work – we were seeing the error message: 'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible …