In a wrap from last year I am posting some summary's of key information from the last few months that people may have missed. Since the Windows Phone team made the update 3 available to developers there is now a new set of Images for Update 3 These images allows you to test on Update 3 at the same resolutions as Update …

It is that time of year, our Annual Tech Update is upon us. if you are an IT manager or IT pro come to the morning and find out what happened in 2013 and see a roadmap for all Microsoft Technologies for 2014 from Windows to SharePoint, from SQL Server to Azure register here Tech Update for Microsoft Technologies for …

I posted yesterday that we had upgraded to the current version of BE 2.9. We, as you might expect, had a few minor issues, but I must say the support on the discussion forums has been excellent. This included the problems I had that were down to missing files and web.config issues (basically my copy errors when moving …

I have just upgrade our Blog Server from BlogEngine.NET 2.8 to 2.9, all seems to have gone well, as before basically it is just copies files and adds s table to the DB schema, so… backup your blogs folder and SQL DB in case of problems delete the contents of the blogs folder copy in the the new release from the zip run …

Twas the night before Christmas and…. To cut a long story short the PC that runs my Window Media Center (MCE) got switched on and off at the wall twice whilst Christmas tree lights were being put up. Now the PC is running WIndows 8.1 on modern hardware, so it should have been OK, and mostly was. However I found a …

If you are using the TFS API to get a list of user who have rights in a given version control folder you need to be careful as you don’t get back the domainuser name you might expect from the GetPermissions(..) call. You actually get the display name. Now that might be fine for you but I needed the domainuser format as …

My Arc mouse started behaving strangely today, very jumpy. Felt like the cursor was being pulled left. Turns out the problem was a tiny hair caught in the led sensor slot You could see there was a problem as the led was flashing a lot, when it is normally solidly on if turn over the mouse you look into the slot. Once I …

Thanks to anyone who came to my session ‘TFS is not just for Visual Studio users’ at the Visual Studio 2013 at NDC London yesterday. Hope you found it useful and are now thinking of TFS as a tool for heterogeneous teams, not just developers using Visual Studio. As I discussed there are many options: Developers can work …

This year, our artistic team has surpassed itself with another fabulous Christmas Card ... or book, and it is coming to a desk or doormat near you. 'Shape-Shifting Santa and the Merry Mutation Team' tells the tale of how the heroic Black Marble brigade once again saves Christmas by rescuing Santa from another Yuletide …

The TFS 2013 Brian Keller demo VM is available at http://aka.ms/vs13almvm