So we reach the end of the first day of Mix07 London, what are my thoughts? Well the conference, as conference go, is well organized and I can have no complaint over the quality of the sessions or presenters. Has it changed how I think about Silverlight? Well I have realised that 1.0 is a very different product to 1.1. …

Today and tomorrow I am at the Mix07 conference in London which is being held at the Congress Centre, a building that I knew as the Trade Union Congress building. So given this location I expected a Harold Wilson 'beer and sandwiches' style lunch, but no it was small food (very nice tapas style dishes) and as we all …

I am speaking at the .NET User group in Bristol next week and have been putting some final touches to my demos. One thing I will be talking about is using CruiseControl with TFS. Whilst getting this running on my demo VPC I hit a problem. I did a default install of CruiseControl .Net 1.3, this was on top of a Visual …

I am off to loads of conferences and event in the next few week, you wait all year for one then they all come together..... Next week Mix07 - London Office Business Applications Architect Forum - London This month MSDN: Introduction to .NET Framework V3.0 - Leeds (hosted by Black Marble) Microsoft SOA and Business …

New version of LiveWriter beta is out, it adds video support (not sure yet if this feature works with Community Server). Watch out of you are installing it as it also updates other Live components such as messenger and tried to add some IE toolbars you might or might not want

I posted about the problems I had adding a user to a project TFS earlier this week. Well I have seen a similar problem again today, I added a new user to an AD group but they could not access the project until I restarted the Web Server process on my TFS front end server. I still suspect a cache problem is the root …

Today I tried to add a user to an existing TFS Team project, this user had happily been working on other team projects hosted on the same same server. In theory all I had to do was add the AD user to an existing AD group that was already setup as a contributor to the team project I now wanted them to work on. However …

I am doing some work at present where I need to debug into webparts hosted in a MOSS 2007 server. Never an easy set of debugging to get right. To try to ease the process I wrote a WinForm test application that just calls the webpart method with test parameters so I don't have to go through all the pages I normally …

The proposed session list for SQLBits (to be held on the 6th Oct at Microsoft TVP) has been published. If you don't know, SQLBits is a free community conference in the style of DDD, but on just SQL related topics. Just like DDD all the speakers are volunteers and the attendees get to vote on the sessions they would …

I tried to install Visual Studio Beta 2 from an ISO today using the Virtual CD Rom tool. This mounted the ISO fine as drive Z: but when I ran the setup.exe I got an error that it could not load the SITSetup.dll, even though this was in the ISO. I copied the contents of the ISO to my physical disk and reran the setup …