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Microsoft have just released the Microsoft BizTalk® Server 2006 adapter for Microsoft Dynamics® CRM 4.0, the adapter has the same functionality as the 3.0 adapter plus :- • Support for both 32-bit and 64-bit deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 • Support for form-based authentication • Support the joy that is …

An excellent turnout for tonights XP Club meeting. As I write Nick McKenna is talking about his experiences in adopting agile processes.

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You can’t say that things never change. I nipped out to Tesco last night for a few bits of shopping – you know, some beer, spices for cooking, etc – and came back with an Acer Aspire One. As you do… To be fair, I have been looking at them closely, and Tesco are by far the cheapest place to get one. I picked up the 1Gb …

I posted a while ago on wiring in Fitness.Net into a unit test framework using HTML files to hold the tests. Well I have been using the technique for some workflow acceptance testing and hit a couple of gotta’s that are easy to forget: Make sure the HTML files containing the user story tests are set to copy to the …

It is getting to that conference time of year again; I can’t believe the PDC is only 3 weeks away, then VBug the next week and DDD7 just after that. A bit closer to home there are some free events coming up this month: XPClub - October Meeting: "Agile Narrative" by Nick McKenna, Wednesday, 8th October, 7pm …

I posted about the problems of using Blend with source control, specifically TFS. Well the next version of TFS Power tools gives a partial answer. They are to include Windows Shell Extensions so at least the check-in/out process can be managed would having another application open other than an explorer windows. Well …

As we move into the SOA world workflows will become more common and so the need to test them will increase. If we take the most simplistic view these are a sets if statements and loops so should be amenable to automated testing and TDD. However you have to careful how you try to do this, it is too easy to forget that …

The one major thing that I did not like with my Dell Mini was the fact it had installed XP Home. My main grip with this was the fact my main user account had to be an admin user, and I could not login as a user called administrator unless in safe mode. So I decided to do an in place upgrade to XP Professional (which …