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 …
Read Moreas 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 …
Read MoreIf 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 …
Read MoreOne of the cool feature of the last October 08 release of TFS Power Tools has been that the members of a Team Project are shown inside Team Explorer.
One of the ideas of this is that you can use Live Messenger from inside Team Explorer to see team members status, but I and many other were seeing the error shown below …
Read MoreI posted a while ago about trying to wire in the results from StyleCop into a Team Build, the problem I had was that I could not get the StyleCop violations into the build summary.
Well I still can’t, after much checking and asking around I was reliably informed that the build summary is not editable and there are no …
Read MoreIf your team build project uses the Publish Target option (to create a ClickOnce deploy) you may see the error
BuildWallboard.csproj" (Publish target) (3:5) ->
(_DeploymentGenerateBootstrapper target) ->
MSB3155: Item 'Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1' could not be located in BuildWallboard'.
MSB3155: Item …
Read More- I would say at this time unless you need 64Bit specific assemblies built you are best staying on a 32bit operating system. This will happily build MSIL .NET assemblies which I guess for most of us is the bulk of our work. OK you loose a bit of performance if you have 64bit hardware (or virtual hardware in our case), …
Read More - I have been rebuilding our TFS build systems on Hyper-V based virtualised hardware. The long term plan being to hold a configured build server as as Hyper-V template to we could prevision extra ones quickly, or rebuild all of them if we need to upgrade some library or tool; in effect to give us revision control over …
Read More - We use the SharePoint Visual Studio Project Template on CodePlex to create WSP deployment packages for our SharePoint features. I tend to think of this WSP creation project in the same way as a MSI installer; so we don’t put SharePoint components into the WSP solution itself, it is an extra project in the solution that …
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