- With TFS 2012.2 Microsoft have added tags to work items. These provide a great way to add custom information to work items without the need to customise the process template to add custom fields. This is important for users of the hosted http://tfs.visualstudio.com as this does not, at this time, allow any process …
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I have been working on a project that contains SharePoint 2010 WSP packages and a MSI distributed WPF application. These projects are all in a single solution with their unit tests. I have been getting a problem with our TFS 2012.2 build system, all the projects compile but at the test point I get the …
Read MoreToday Black Marble is hosting the Yorkshire Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event.
To see what is happening check out the photos on our Facebook gallery and the #GlobalWindowsAzure Twitter hashtag
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Read MoreI have been trying to get SQL 2012 SSIS packages built on a TFS2012.2 build system. As has been pointed out by many people the problem is you cannot build SQL SSIS packages with MSBuild. This means you have to resort to call Visual Studio DevEnv.exe from within your build.
Jakob Ehn did a great post on this subject, …
Read MoreI have just upgrade our Blog Server from BlogEngine.NET 2.7 to 2.8, all seems to have gone well, basically it is just file copies as there is no DB schema change, so…
- backup your blogs folder
- delete it’s contents
- copy in the the new release from the zip
- fix the SQL connection string
- copy around a few files as detailed …
Read MoreThanks to everyone who attended my webinar session today in TFS Lab Management, I hope the audio issues were not too much of a problem and you found the session useful. We are looking into the causes of the audio problem so hopefully the next webinar will not need people dialling in via the phone unless they want to.
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Read More- If you are interested finding out more about TFS Lab Management why not come to the [Black Marble Bite size webinar](http://blackmarble.com/events.aspx?event=Tips for Visual Studio Lab Management (Black Marble Byte Size Webinar)) next Tuesday (23rd April). I will be giving a basic overview of the product and discussing …
Read More I have mentioned in past posts the issues we had doing our first quarterly update for TFS 2012. Well today we had scheduled our upgrade to 2012.2 and I am please to say it all seems to have worked.
Unlike the last upgrade, this time we were doing nothing complex such as moving DB tier SQL instances; so it was a …
Read MoreI had a great time yesterday at the VISUG Conference in Antwerp, thanks to everyone involved in event.
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Read More- Have you heard about the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp? Around the world in 80+ locations, community groups are running an Azure Bootcamp on the 27th April - mainly organised by MVPs, this is an event with over 3000 attendees! From the UK to the USA, in Asia, the Pacific and Australia - liked-minded individuals are …
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