I tried to install Visual Studio Beta 2 from an ISO today using the Virtual CD Rom tool. This mounted the ISO fine as drive Z: but when I ran the setup.exe I got an error that it could not load the SITSetup.dll, even though this was in the ISO.

I copied the contents of the ISO to my physical disk and reran the setup …

I tried to create a new TFS team project today and got an error that the TFS server could not access the SQL Reporting Services server. I then checked I could access http://myserver/reports and this also failed. On looking in the event log I saw a number of EventID 107 'cannot connect to the report server database'

Now …

Day 4 was well like a normal day , sleep (some) , food (mostly edible) . we saw some great presentations and had a normal day with out the need to work.

Day 5 started early 8.00 and the Seedlings did 3 hours on the stand as did all of the other competitors, doing the rounds when there is no competition was great as …

Today was a very bizarre experience. we set off at 8.00am (midnight UK time) in a thunderous downpour to see the sights.

After several uncomfortable days in transit in the bus , we were issues a pastel colored umbrellas and fans! The first visit was to the national museum , much time was taken by the organizers to …

If you are reading Robert's blog you will know he is in Korea as the mentor of The Seedings, the UK entry for the Microsoft Imagine Cup.

I have just seen that the is some video coverage on Microsoft's Channel8 (which seems to be a Channel9/10 spin off for the Imaging Cup students).

Enjoy.....

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Some time ago I upgraded my Orange mobile to an M700.  It's a very nice phone indeed, and the ability to be able to use TomTom 6 on it as well saves me having to varry around yet another electronic device.

One thing about it did however annoy me - there was no equivalent of the T9 text input that I had on my old phone. …

And onto Day 2 , the presentation was at 9.00am. it went very very well.

Just after the presentation some of the Argentinean team came over for a chat

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Well here we are Day 1 , it already feels like Thursday.  

Set up has gone well , everything is working on the initial pass.

the booth looking nice and tidy

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There small set of minor interesting points have happened today so there they are in no order

Coke but not as we know it

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the cans are …