After hearing my TEE video on Channel9 mentioned on Radio TFS I thought I should watch it through, I had only found time to do a quick look previously. This is all part of my on-going self review process, a form of self torture.

It seems the issues I mentioned last time are still there, I still have too many err’s. The …

I have swapped to the new version of Microsoft Skydrive, replacing my old Mesh setup. It is a nice slick experience, allowing easy viewing of files on Skydrive from Windows and WP7. However, I do have couple of issues

1. I used Mesh to sync photos from my Window 7 Media Center up to cloud storage as a backup, don’t want …

I recently recorded a video on using Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere, this has today been published in the UK Techdays section of Channel 9.

Hope you find it useful.

Got back from holiday today to find my DDDSW (26th May) session on unit testing in Visual Studio 11 has been accepted.

I see the event is already full, but hope to see some of you there

A blogged a while ago about a problem faking multiple SPList with Typemock Isolator in a single test. With the release of Typemock Isolator 7.0.4.0 you no longer have to use the workaround I documented.

You can now use the code if the originally planned, and it works as expected

1 1: public partial class TestPage : …

As part of the on-going effort in documentation I have recently published more documentation for the TFS build extension project activities

• AssemblyInfo
• CodeMetric (updated) and CodeMetricHistory
• File
• Twitter

One of my favourite new features in VS11 is that the unit testing is pluggable. You don’t have to use MSTest, you can use any test framework that an adaptor is available for (at the release of the beta this meant the list of framworks on Peter Provost’s blog, but I am sure this will grow).

So what does this mean and …

Ours is a fast moving industry and as times goes on I find the need to specialise more and more. However, I believe there is a great value in at least having a passing knowledge of as much of our field as possible, IT pros can learn from developers and .NET team from Java and of course the other way around. 

I find the …