Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful.
The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site. There is also a web cast of a virtual identical presentation on the Extreme Programming Club site.
The noticeable …
Read MoreSince updating to TFS 2008 we have lost our Sprint Burndown chart in eScrum, not a major problem as we use the cumulative flow in its place. However, I have eventually got round to fixing it.
It turns out the problem is down to the the way the dates for the start and end of the Sprint are converted to measure names for …
Read MoreIf you are using the TFS API within a WebApp with impersonation there is a good chance you will see the error below when you run the web site on IIS
System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException(ExceptionResource resource)
at …
Read MoreI have just adding some Performance Counters to instrument some code and had a few issues that are worth knowing about.
I created two categories of counters using the following code:
//Create a category with a single counter
PerformanceCounterCategory.Create(
"categoryName", …
Read More- After years of discussions with clients that their ever and rapidly changing requirements could only be met if we implemented a telepathic interface to read their users minds, Microsoft have done the decent thing and released Microsoft® ESP™. Now Microsoft are saying that ESP is a toolkit to allow developers to build …
Read More The BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 is a management pack for discovery and monitoring of BizTalk Server components and applications. This new management pack includes monitoring for most of the new R2 Features
- Suspended Message Alerts
- Alert Suppression Policy
- Native EDI
- BAM Technical …
Read MoreSaw an excellent play last night, Hapgood at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. For those who have no heard if it, it is a Tom Stoppard play about spies and physics set in the late 80s.
<imgloading="lazy" decoding="async" alt="Promotional image for West Yorkshire Playhouse production of Hapgood, Josie …
Read MoreBurley Kawasaki has just announced at the Microsoft Insight 2008 conference that in BizTalk 2006 R3 that Microsoft has Acquired from Covast some of their advanced B2B functionality specifically around new vertical industries ( details to come ) , this will be a no cost addition to BizTalk 2006 R3.
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