The DCS two step

When working with DSC a difficult concept can be that your desired state script is ‘compiled’ to a MOF file that is then ‘run’ by the desired state manager on the target machine. This is a two step affair and you have no real input on the second part. This is made more complex when Release Management …

Don’t worry, Nokia are not planning to revive 70s nostalgia aftershave, Denim is the new update for Lumia's providing better low level support of the hardware.

Denim offers several key updates

Camera – for the 830/930/1520 updates specifically for HDR, Dynamic flash and 4k video and speed fixes for the 1520. as a user …

Whilst helping a Java based team (part of larger organisation that used many sets of both Microsoft and non-Microsoft tools) to migrate from Subversion to TFS I had to tackle their Jenkins/Ant based builds.

They could have stayed on Jenkins and switched to the TFS source provider, but they wanted to at least look at …

This week is Computer Science Education week (CSEW) and I am really exited that Computer Science is being seen for what it is, A gateway to an amazing future.

The Hour of Code is upon us and urge everybody to look at helping children and adults do their first hour.

Microsoft have been promoting the Hour of Code and the …

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Whilst building a new TFS build agent VM using our standard scripts I hit a problem that SSDT projects would not build, but was fine on our existing agents. The error was

C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftVisualStudiov12.0SSDTMicrosoft.Data.Tools.Schema.SqlTasks.targets (513): The "SqlBuildTask" task …

I posted a month or so ago about my ‘Experiences using a DD-WRT router with Hyper-V’, well I have been living with it over a month? How has it been going?

Like the curate’s egg ‘good in parts’. It seems OK for while and then everything would get a bit slow to stop.

Just as a reminder this is what I had ended up with …

We use O365 to provide Lync messaging. So when I rebuilt my PC I thought I needed to re-install the client; so I logged into the O365 web site and selected the install option. Turns out this was a mistake. I had Office 2013 installed, so I already had the client, I just had not noticed.

If you do install O365 Lync …

There have been a load on announcements about TFS, VSO and Visual Studio in general in the past couple of week, mostly at the Connect() event.

Just to touch on a few items

• Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013 Update 4. 
• The first public preview of Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 2015
• The .NET Framework is going …