Back home now after a excellent two days at Alt.Net in London. As with the spring conference this was a thought provoking event. I really like the whole open space format, though there were four 'main sessions' the event started the night before in the planning session and the bar and carried on without a pause, …

I hit a problem today when trying to sign a powershell script as detailed on Scott Hanselman's blog with a Thawte code signing certificate. The basic issue was that the certificate could be seen in the Personal section of the Certificates MMC snap-in. Also it was listed if I issued the Powershell command Get-ChildItem …

The next XPClub meeting is a double bill: Code Quality and Scala + Lift. and is being held at the usual venue the Victoria Hotel Leeds. This is a free event open to all. As usual drinks and snacks thanks to the club sponsors are free, also there will be a draw for one free personal license for any of the products by …

Today I got round to upgrading our TFS 2008 (dual server setup) with Team Server 2008 SP1. I tried it first on my demo VPC I use for presentations (reminder I am at VBug Coventry at the end of the talking about TFS, a free event open to all). Anyway, this update went fine and did not take too long, 5 or 10 minutes. On …

I have had a nightmare getting this going. Adding the ModalPopupExtender to a form is easy, you drop it on and tell it the two required controls parameters PopupControlID="MyModalPanel" TargetControlID="ButtonToLoadIt" And it just works fine, but is triggered by a client side click of the Target …

I am speaking at VBug Coventry on the 24th of September about Visual Studio Team System. For details have a look at the [VBug events](Elmbank Training, Juniper Room (Ground Floor), Mill Lane, Coventry, CV1 2LQ, GB) site, look forward to seeing you there.

For those who have not seen it eScrum 1.1 is now available. This basically a update for the installer so it works on VS2008 so you don't have to go through all the manual fiddling you had to in the past. So if you want a nice simple agile team project process, with a nice web site to give progress visibility, give it a …

When you are using a VSTO enabled Word Template inside a SharePoint custom content type you have to be careful which actual .DOTX file you use within the SharePoint custom content type. DO NOT - use the .DOTX from your VSTO Visual Studio project directory DO USE - the .DOTX from the the project's ClickOnce publish …

I posted about NBC Olympic coverage - today I discovered I cannot stream BBC provided media content from the Olympics on my Windows PDA using Opera via the Vodafone 3G service. Seems the BBC does not think I am in the UK. I know Yorkshire assumes it should be independent, but I don't think it has happened yet. I …

After the announcement at Mix of the NBC Silverlight Olympic streaming service I was looking forward to have a look at what had been created. Turns out you have to be in the USA to watch it, I assume due to media rights issues, a bit of a shame. I hope something can be worked out with a small fraction of the 2200 hours …