I see that the registration (and hence session voting) has opened for the free community conference SQLBits III, I can't make it as it is the same day as Alt.Net. However, I really do recommend this event if you ever work with data (some of you do that don't you?)

The July edition of the Team System power tools have just been released. To pick out just one of a great set of tools - have a look at the Alert Editor, a really easy way to wire up external events handler to do things when TFS events occur.

Thanks to everyone one who attended my session at the Leeds SQL User group on Visual Studio Database Edition and to UPCO for hosting the event. The slide stack is available on the Black Marble web site

The Alt.net summer conference is now full after about 24 hours and that is with a larger capacity venue than the last one. Told it would be fast

Registration has opened for the Alt.UK Summer conference. If the first UK Alt.net conference event is anything to go by it will fill up fast, so don't hang around if you are interested

I was trying to publish a .NET 3.5 WCF service to a network share e.g. \myserversharefolder_to_holdservice and got the error "The specified file could not be encrypted" for all the files. I changed to a publish to the local disk it published fine, so what caused that? As part of some security impact …

This months meeting of the XPClub is on Wednesday. It is a general group chat about refactoring, branching and merging. This is a free event, usually with a few free beers, at the usual time & location, 7pm at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds, so hope to see you there

I have posted in the past about my efforts to write a user facing bug tracking interface for TFS to integrate with our SharePoint based customer portal. I have had some mixed success, but the end point is that I am just not happy with what I have written. Historically we have used our own home grown call tracking …

It really good to see so many submissions for the DDD7, and many new names, always a good sign of a the community working well. I just got round to putting one in myself on integrating testing into MSBuild. There is still time for more though. So have a think and put in a session proposal - trust me it is great fun.

Found out last night that I have just been made an MVP for Team System, is that cool or what!