When you create a build type for a team project on TFS you can enable testing using MSTest by saying 'run any tests that are found in a given DLL'. I used this today to create a CI build for a project, I am looking at using Team Build as opposed to CruiseCrontrol as we have done historically. I hit a problem that the …

This Wednesday, the 11th, is the rescheduled XPClub meeting 'Exploring Mobile Web Development' with Chris Mills developer relations manager for Opera This is a free event and open to all, hope to see you there.

Interesting post from Ben Hall on the role of the tester, something I have posted on in the past. As Ben asks what are other people views?

I have got into reading books off my HTC smart phone using the Microsoft Reader. It means you always have a book with you (as well as a web browser, blog writer, phone etc.....) The problem has been getting books in a suitable format, yes I know that you can buy electronic books but there are so many out of copyright …

As promised you can get silverlight 2.0 beta 2 here and the june preview of blend and zoom here. The SDK is available here or with the Visual Studio 2008 tools here. b.

I like the concept of SideShow and I think one of its flaws is not enough devices NOW , they are slowly coming on stream but not quickly enough for me. So along with all of the other items arriving this week I was pleased to see this a windows mobile version of side show and I have spent the day controlling my PC from …

I will say it now and I will say it again , Live Writer rocks. A new tech preview with some cool user features and even more developer features are available here. User Features include: Video and Image enhancements : Soapbox support , Better Image support (cropping , tilting , effects ) Editing: Word count , smart …

I am not at TechED Dev in Orlando ( I am going to IT Pro next week , see me at the BizTalk ATE stand ), but there are some important announcements to cover off. Microsoft Project Codename “Velocity” CTP **“**Velocity” allows high availability to data by integrating Large clusters of machines _s_eamlessly into a single …

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on DataDude in Edinburgh yesterday. I hope you found it useful. For those based in Yorkshire I will be doing the same session for the local SQL user group on the 16th July. The slides I used yesterday were virtually identical to the ones I used at SQLBits II and can be found …

Typical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version! See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.