It is good to see how fast sessions have been submitted for SQLBits, a nice range already. And great news that the event on the 28th March is in Manchester.

I have submitted an updated version of the session I did for SQLBits II on Team System, hope some people find it interesting.

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If you have TypeMock Isolator based MSTests in a solution you will want them to be run as part of any CI build process.

To get this to work with Team Build you have to make sure Isolator is started in the build box at the right time (something that is done automagically behind the scenes by Visual Studio during …

One of the cool feature of the last October 08 release of TFS Power Tools has been that the members of a Team Project are shown inside Team Explorer.

One of the ideas of this is that you can use Live Messenger from inside Team Explorer to see team members status, but I and many other were seeing the error shown below …

I posted a while ago about trying to wire in the results from StyleCop into a Team Build, the problem I had was that I could not get the StyleCop violations into the build summary.

Well I still can’t, after much checking and asking around I was reliably informed that the build summary is not editable and there are no …

If your team build project uses the Publish Target option (to create a ClickOnce deploy) you may see the error

BuildWallboard.csproj" (Publish target) (3:5) ->
(_DeploymentGenerateBootstrapper target) ->
MSB3155: Item 'Microsoft.Net.Framework.3.5.SP1' could not be located in BuildWallboard'.
MSB3155: Item …

At the last MVP Summit Steve Ballmer said “I’m going to ask you one week switch your default [search engine], one week. At the end of the week…I’ll want feedback, how was your week, what happened, what did you like, what didn’t you like … Can I make that deal with you? (Cheers and applause.) That’s the deal.”

Well the …

Updated 3 Dec 2008 – I got an email from Artem Smirnov the author of Ivonna pointing out a couple of things, so I have updated this post
Updated 3 May 2009 – I altered the code samples as the previous ones did not seem to work with Typemock Isolator 5.3.0 .

I have previously written a post on using Isolator with …