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

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 …

I tried to create a new TFS team project today and got an error that the TFS server could not access the SQL Reporting Services server. I then checked I could access http://myserver/reports and this also failed. On looking in the event log I saw a number of EventID 107 'cannot connect to the report server database'

Now …

If you are reading Robert's blog you will know he is in Korea as the mentor of The Seedings, the UK entry for the Microsoft Imagine Cup.

I have just seen that the is some video coverage on Microsoft's Channel8 (which seems to be a Channel9/10 spin off for the Imaging Cup students).

Enjoy.....

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