I have at last worked all the way through setting up my portable end to end demo of testing using Windows Test and Lab Manager. The last error I had to resolve was the tests not running in the lab environment (though working locally on the development PC). My the Lab Workflow build was recorded as a partial success …

I have been looking at TFS 2010 Lab Manager recently. One problem I had was that using the sample code from the Lab Manager Blog Walkthru the building of the CALC ASP.NET web site failed on the build server, I got an error ASPNETCOMPILER: error 1003 The directory ‘c:build1LabWalkthruCalculator –BuildCalc’ does not …

I recently been working with a client who has been seeing strange problems when they try to create new workitems via a SharePoint portal site on a TFS2010 Beta2 installation. They appeared to have a fully working TFS2010 installation, but when they came in on a morning they found that even though they could login to …

Seems I missed an interesting at session at DDD8, Barry Dorrans’ final DDD performance, with assistance with of other speakers. Barry you will be missed Update 5 Feb, links to the interruptions Plip's Book Advert. Liam's Eulogy. Colin Mackay's new source of presentations. Craig Murphy insulting not one but two ex-UK …

Next months Agile Yorkshire meeting (10th Feb) is an open floor meeting - any subject, any format, 10 minute maximum. If you fancy doing something in one of the 10 minute slots - whether it is a presentation, a demonstration, a discussion around a problem area - then visit …

Whilst preparing demo’s for [our design event next week](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Understanding the Microsoft Design and Digital Agency Proposition) I hit a problem with the out of browser experience in Silverlight 3. I had decided to add the out of browser settings to our 2009 Christmas Card …

After attending Eileen Brown’s session on [Social networking last night](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Using Digital Marketing and Social Media to Build and Maintain your Online Brand&Code=), I though I should make more of an effort. So I am giving Twitter Notify a try, so at least there is some …

I recently decided to build a demo system for VS2010 Lab Manager. This was for a number of reasons, not least I just wanted to have a proper play with it, but also that I was hoping to do a session on Microsoft Test and Lab Manager at DDD8 (as it turns out my session did not get voted for, maybe better luck for DDS, …

Last week I got into an interesting discussion via email with Nieve a developer from Lille, France.The chat was on the uptake of Agile and Alt.Net practices in places a bit away from the major development hotspots. We both thought it could make an interesting post so, here goes, starting with Nieve’s first post….. …

Updated 2nd March 2010: Altered the sample arguments see this post for more details Updated 27th Jan 2010: Gian Maria Ricci, another Team System MVP has done some more work on this problems and posted on how to create a custom activity to address the problem. I have been looking at getting automated builds running on …