If running an Ubuntu guest VM on Windows 8 Hyper-V you have a problem if you want to make use of a wireless network on the host machine. DHCP does not seem to work.
Firstly you have to create a virtual switch in Hyper-V
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Read MoreToday at TechEd USA Brian Harry announced Visual Studio 2013, have a look at his blog for details of the new ALM features. These include…
- Agile Portfolio Management
- Git source control on premises
- Revised team explorer including pop out windows
- Improvements in code editing and annotation
- Improvement in web based test …
Read MoreMy Windows 8 based Lenovo W520 has an Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 Wifi chipset, it has been giving me problems with this for a while.
The most usual problem is that if I sleep or hibernate the PC when I restart it, in a different location, there is a chance I cannot connect to Wifi networks. I can see them, get a …
Read MoreThanks to everyone who attended my session on ‘TFS for Developers’ at the Grey Matter’s ‘Building Applications for the Future’ event today. As you will have noticed my session was basically slide free, so not much to share there.
As I said at the end of my session to find out more have a look at
Read MoreI have been out to a number of sites recently where there are C++ developers. We often get talking about package management and general best practices for shared libraries. The common refrain is ‘I wish we had something like Nuget for C++’.
Well it was released in Nuget 2.5 and there is a video on Channel9 all about …
Read MoreA key requirement for any DevOps strategy is the reporting on how your solution is behaving in the wild. PreEmptive Analytics™ for Team Foundation Server (TFS) can provide a great insight in this area, and there is a good chance you are already licensed for it as part of MSDN.
So why not have a look on the UK MSDN site …
Read MoreWhy is everything so complex to get going with Wix, then so easy in the end when you get the syntax correct?
If you want to allow your MSI installer to upgrade a previous version then there are some things you have to have correct if you don’t want the ‘Another version of this product is already installed’ dialog …
Read More- I recently needed to upgrade a DNN V5 site to V7 (yes I know I had neglected it, but I was forced to consider a change due to an ISP change). Now this is a documented process, but I had a few problems. There are some subtleties the release notes miss out. This is what I found I had to do to test the process on a …
Read More If you look at the labels tab in the source control history in Visual Studio 2012 you could be confused by the changeset numbers. How can all the labels added by my different builds, done over many days, be associated with the same changeset?
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