I am upgrade an internal system from .NET 4.0 to 4.5 so that I can use the Team API features in TFS. The system is based around a WCF web service that links our customer help desk system to TFS to keep bug reports in sync. It uses Entity Framework to access our help desk SQL DB.

When I changed the targeted .NET …

Just had a problem with a TFS 2012 Lab Management deployment build. It was working this morning, deploying two web sites via MSDeploy and a DB via a DacPac, then running some CodedUI tests. However, when I tried a new deployment this afternoon it kept failing with the error:

The deployment task was aborted because …

With the interesting move for compilers to become services, it is a natural and welcome follow on that F# is now available as a compiler as a service.

The Package contains

• F# Language tokenizer – tokenizer service
• Processing untyped AST service
• Using editor (IDE) services – components needed to build an IDE
• Hosted F# …

A nice surprise today the Nokia Black update appeared on my Nokia 1020. The update brings some great new features but also a hidden fix for those of us running the GDR3 developer preview which now allows correct use of the PlayTo feature.

Updated Nokia Glance

Glance now includes other notifications from apps similar to …

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…

1. backup your blogs folder and SQL DB in case of problems
2. delete the contents  of the blogs folder
3. copy in the the new release from the zip …

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 …