Updated 25th Mar when I found I have three sessions I have just heard that I had two three sessions accepted for the Norwegian Developers Conference. They are: Putting Some Testing Into Your TFS Build Making Manual Testing a Part of Your Development Process Developing Testable Web Parts for SharePoint. So off to Oslo, …

For some reason that is beyond me now I did not setup my Lab Manager test system to be a VHD boot. So before installing the 2010 RC version I decided to P2V this system (on the same hardware) to make backups easier whilst testing. All seemed to go well I used IMAGEX to create a WIM of the disk Created an empty VHD Used …

Hope everyone enjoyed my session VS2010 at NEBytes last night. I don't now about you but I think that quick end to end demo of build, manual test and Intellitrace debug work very nicely. That was the first time I have done it as a single demo and I think it works better than three smaller ones. Truely shows the …

Just a reminder I am speaking at NEBytes in Newcastle tomorrow on the new features of VS2010. I will be covering project management, architect, dev and test features so something there for everyone.

I upgraded our Beta2 2010 TFS last week, and after a quick local test all appeared to be working OK, so I rushed out the office like you do. However, whilst I have been out the office it was spotted that though it was working within the office using HTTP and the NETBIOSDomain server name (TFSSERVER) it could not be …

Interesting time at QCon yesterday, shame I was only there one day, I do like the events that are not limited to a single vendor or technology. The multi presenter session I was involved in on Microsoft interoperability seemed to go well, there is talk of repeating at other events or podcasting. It is a nice format if …

I am please to be able to announce that I am speaking at the SharePoint 2010 Evolution Conference in London on the 21st of April. I will be talking about my experiences during the [Prontaprint project](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/CaseStudy.aspx?study=Prontaprint's Website with SharePoint 2007) developing testable …

Next weeks Agile Yorkshire meeting with Martin Fowler is now full (and the venue is twice the size of our usual one!). I said it would be popular. There is a reserve list but I would not hold out too much hope.

Updated 25th March 2010 - All the source is now available at the Typemock Add-in site Updated 2nd July 2010 - Some usage notes posted Updated 26th July 2011 - More usage notes Updated 21st Nov 2011 - Typemock Isolator now has direct support for TFS 2010 Build, see usage notes I have previously posted on how you can run …

Of late I keep getting ‘HTTP Error 403: The service you requested is restricted’ when I try to use my HTC Diamond2 mobile phone on Vodafone. I see the problem whether browsing the internet with mobile IE or Opera and also when using the phone as a 3G modem from my Windows 7 laptop. Seems to happen every other day of …