- BI development is not something I do that often, but from time to time you need to develop a custom report in TFS. I recently had to battle a MDX problem that someone who does more BI development I am sure why have had no issue with; but as with most of these blog posts (or my long term memory as I think of it) I …
Read More - If you enjoyed Black Marble’s SDL event last week there is more info on the subject of SDL on this weeks .NET Rocks podcast
Read More - A guest post I wrote on TFS for the non-.NET developer has just been published on the Microsoft Visual Studio UK Team Blog. Why not pop over and have a look.
Read More Brian Harry has just posted on his blog about a bug in SQL page compression (found in SQL Enterprise) that can cause problems with TFS 2010 or TFS1(preview), previous version of TFS did not support page compression.
So if you are using TFS and SQL Enterprise have a read and make sure the correct updates are in place.
Read More- We have been building ‘standard’ environments for our TFS Lab Management system. Environments that can be used for most of the projects we are involved in without too much extra setup e.g. a small domain controller VM and a Server VM with SQL and SharePoint. These environments have a series of snapshots so it can be …
Read More - If you want to hear a bit more detail on some of the common security issues we discussed at yesterdays SDL event why not listen to Troy Hunt Secures ASP.NET recent show on .NET Rocks or download his PDF ‘OWASP Top 10 for .NET developers’
Read More Thanks to everyone who attended our SDL event today. Here are a few links to information we mentioned
- Microsoft SDK home page, full of downloads, links and training videos
- TFS Build extensions for CAT.NET, showing how to add SDL validation to a TFS build
- And there are selection of links to books on SDL on my blog’s …
Read More- Do you enjoy our Black Marble events, but can’t always make it in person? Busy day at the office, mean you can’t attend a full or even a half day event? From 30 January 2012, we are introducing a series of online seminars – running most Mondays though to the end of June, we are covering a range of topics in bite-size …
Read More A new 1.3.0.0 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been published today. This contains some fixes and two new activities
- SPDisposeChecker – checks for SharePoint best practice
- CatNetScan – checks for common security issues
Read More- For many years Black Marble has run free events on a wide range of technologies. Originally we only ran these locally in Yorkshire, but as time progressed we have run them across the UK and Eire. They are a great way to help your staff whether technical or managerial get up to speed with new developments in our …
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