It is good to see how fast sessions have been submitted for SQLBits, a nice range already. And great news that the event on the 28th March is in Manchester.

I have submitted an updated version of the session I did for SQLBits II on Team System, hope some people find it interesting.

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One of the great announcements at the PDC was that Microsoft and DevExpress have done a deal to giveaway a version of CodeRush which includes some of the more popular features of CodeRush and Refactor Pro

For those of you lucky enough to come to our evening event with the legendary Oliver Sturm, you will have already …

You can get a free copy of the excellent Vista Edition of “Writing Secure Code”  Here

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Once again, Black Marble, with friends and family, had a great Xmas lunch at the Chaophraya in Leeds.  Everyone who attended enjoyed the food, the company and the great gifts!  I’m now looking forward to the first Annual Black Marble Magic Show in the New Year  on our next Home Day!

I would like to take this …

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The latest selection of Black Marble Xmas cards have a distinctly …

At the start of December Black Marble was very proud to co-host Architecture in the North with Microsoft.

I would like to thank everybody who came and to the great Microsoft speakers who came to educate us all.

Session Decks

Sustainability from Data Centre to the Cloud - Matt Deacon 

Architecture Guidance - Simon …

as a part of my collected sets of links here is a set of useful tools and links for Visual Studio

Languages

IronPython 2.0 can be downloaded from here

Tools

Microsoft Code Analysis Tool .NET (CAT.NET) v1 CTP - 32 bit - here

-CAT.NET is a snap-in to the Visual Studio IDE that helps you identify security flaws within a …

Yes that's right Microsoft Press are celebrating 25 years and giving away free books, this months is Joseph Davies’s book on IPV6

Get it Here

the offer runs out in a few days so get downloading if you want it.

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If you have TypeMock Isolator based MSTests in a solution you will want them to be run as part of any CI build process.

To get this to work with Team Build you have to make sure Isolator is started in the build box at the right time (something that is done automagically behind the scenes by Visual Studio during …