Overnight Visual Studio and TFS 2012 became available on MSDN for download; I really pleased to say that the ALM Rangers also SIM shipped all our 2012 guidance at the same time.
I have been working on two of the Ranger project for the past year and have to say I have learnt a lot working with such a great crowd of …
Read MoreWhilst moving over to our new TFS 2012 installation I got the following error when a build tried to run tests
TF900546: An unexpected error occurred while running the RunTests activity: 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.'.
This was a new one …
Read MoreAt last my Nokia Lumia 800 gets its firmware upgrade to allow tethering. The 8773 update seems to be made up of three updates, two operating system ones (which I managed to force down in the usual way), but this Nokia firmware one has taken weeks to get to me, forcing did not help. I had to wait.
Read More- In my last post I discussed the process I needed to go through to get Typemock Isolator running under TFS 2012. In this process I used the Auto Deploy feature of Isolator. However this raised the question of how to manage the references within projects. You cannot just assume the Typemock assemblies are in the GAC, …
Read More Update 23rd Aug 2012: This blog post was produced testing against the 2012RC, seems it does not work against the 2012 RTM release. I am seeing the error in my build logs
_ TF900546: An unexpected error occurred while running the RunTests activity: 'Executor process exited._
I am looking into this, expect to see a new …
Read MoreI have been really pleased with Windows 8 RP on my Lenovo W520, I have had no major problems. I have seen the issues with slow start-up of networking after a sleep as others have seen, but nothing else.
However today I tried to do a Lync audio call with Lync 2013 Beta and found I had no audio. Up to now I had just used …
Read MoreUpdated 30th Aug 2012: This post is specific to TFS/VS 2012 RC - for details on the RTM see this updated post
Whilst moving over to our new TFS2012 system I have been editing build templates, pulling the best bits from the selection of templates we used in 2010 into one master build process to be used for most future …
Read More- I am pleased to say that Black Marble will be doing a session at the Leeds Sharp User group on the evening of the 30th of August on the [Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense (what used to be call a Surface2)](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/SectionDisplay.aspx?name=Specialisations&subsection=Samsung SUR40 (Surface 2)). …
Read More - DDD10 registration opens today, and probably closes about 10 minutes later (server overloads allowing) from past experience. If you can’t make the date, or the don’t fancy the trip down south to TVP remember DDDNorth in October at Bradford University has many of the same speakers and is located in a far more convenient …
Read More Whilst moving all our older test Hyper-V VMs into a new TFS 2012 Lab Management instance I have had to address a few problems. I already posted about the main one of cross domain communications. This post aims to list the other workaround I have used.
MTM can’t communicate with the VMs
When setting up an environment …
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