- 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 …
Read More Update – just needed to correct myself … it is a Kringle-O-Tron not a Robot Santa! D’oh!
In case you missed it … we are providing cut out and keep Santa and Kringle-O-Tron with our online Xmas cards this year. They make up wonderful little models, with just folding and cutting! As we can testify to by the number …
Read MoreBizTalk 2009 CTP is now out along side ESB 2.0 CTP and RFID(Mobile)
BizTalk 2009 supports visual studio 2008 , SQL Server 2008 AND TFS with some great new tooling for development and application lifecycle management.
BizTalk RFID Mobile enhances BizTalk Server RFID by offering device management and offline processing …
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Following the wonderfully successful Black Marble Brigade Xmas Card in 2007, we are back with a great set of …
Read More- At Black Marble we try to always go one step further, one of the popular things we do is to get international varieties of coke and other pop/soda from Korean to American. This December, the Guest Cokes filling your fridge include the very exotic Irish variety of regular coke … and also a French Diet Coke! Enjoy. …
Read More At the last MVP Summit Steve Ballmer said “I’m going to ask you one week switch your default [search engine], one week. At the end of the week…I’ll want feedback, how was your week, what happened, what did you like, what didn’t you like … Can I make that deal with you? (Cheers and applause.) That’s the deal.”
Well the …
Read MoreUpdated 3 Dec 2008 – I got an email from Artem Smirnov the author of Ivonna pointing out a couple of things, so I have updated this post
Updated 3 May 2009 – I altered the code samples as the previous ones did not seem to work with Typemock Isolator 5.3.0 .I have previously written a post on using Isolator with …
Read MoreBlack Marble hosted the first Architecture Forum in the North today and despite the treacherous weather conditions, there was a great and enthusiastic turnout.
The day opened with Matt Deacon, Chief Architectural Advisor from Microsoft espousing on Sustainable IT, followed up by Simon Thurman, a Microsoft Architecture …
Read MoreI'm using the Mini9 quite a lot lately, at least in part to fiddle with Windows 7. I decided it would be nice to be able to access our Hyper-V servers so I went looking for the management tools...
It turns out that Windows 7 ships with the Hyper-V management snap-ins. No real surprise there as my understanding is that …
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