I have been trying to install the Feb CTP of SQL 2008 on an Virtual PC, but kept getting the following error

SQL Server Browser Install for feature 'SQL_Browser_Redist_SqlBrowser_Cpu32' failed with exception System.InvalidOperationException: This access control list is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be …

I will be speaking at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference in early April on the Business Intelligence features in SQL 2008.

I also just found out my Continuous Integration session at Developer Day Scotland has been successful in the vote, thanks to everyone who voted for it.

Ages ago I posted on using MSTest and CruiseControl .NET with VS2005. As I am presenting tomorrow to the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club on CC.Net I thought it a good idea to revisit this subject with VS2008.

Well basically nothing has changed, the old ccnet.config I detailed still works. However, I discovered that …

What seems many months ago I ordered an HTC Cruise from Expansys. My old QTEK S100 was literally falling apart. The new phone was supposedly on 4 day delivery, well it took best part of 4 months to arrive (don't you just hate online stock levels and delivery dates that are just wrong) but was the wait worth it?

Well I …

Interesting to see that the samples of Silverlight controls have been shipped with associated MSTest projects. I think this is first for Microsoft.

Now this is a great way to see the intention behind the way any bit of code was designed. A good test set is far more use than most documentation, as it truly matches the …

In a change from the usual venue in Leeds, the next meeting of the Extreme Programming club will be at Black Marble's office in Bradford.

I will be giving a updated version of my DDD4 presentation on Cruise Control .NET.

The fun starts a 7pm on Wednesday the 12th of March, it is free and open to all, see you there.

I was at SQLBits II in Birmingham yesterday, a great venue and great sessions. I particularly enjoyed András Belokosztolszki's session on transient data in SQL, giving an insight on when as a developer it is appropriate to use different techniques to manage data.

My session on Visual Studio for Database Professionals …

I have been doing some Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) development in Word of late, not exactly a pain free experience.

First thing to say is that even given all the marketing spiel, VSTO is not that different from VBA in older versions of Office.

To get going I create a new VSTO 2008 Word 2007 Template project …

The agenda has been published  for **DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! Day - Ireland ** which is being held on the Saturday May 3rd 2008 in Galway.

I can't make it to the event, but it does look well worth the trip. Keep an on on the conference web site RSS feed to see when registration opens.