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Windows update now includes Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, so expect a slow shutdown when it applies
Richard Fennell Dec 22, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is now coming down as part of Windows Update. Watch out for this, my PC has just taken best part of two hours to reboot as it decided to apply this service pack, even though I had already applied it manually when I built the PC
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Debugging CodedUi Tests when launching test as a different user
Richard Fennell Dec 21, 2011 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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If you are working with CodedUI tests in Visual Studio you sometimes get unexpected results, such as the wrong field be selected in replays. When trying to work out what has happened the logging features are really useful. These are probably already switched on, but you can check by following the details in this post. …
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DevOps are testers best placed to fill this role?
Richard Fennell Dec 16, 2011 · 3 min read · Uncategorised ·
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DevOps seems to be the new buzz role in the industry at present. People who can bridge the gap between the worlds of development and IT pros. Given my career history this could be a description of the path I took. I have done both, and now sit in the middle covering ALM consultancy where I work with both roles. You …
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When you try to run a test in MTM you get a dialog ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’
Richard Fennell Dec 16, 2011 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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When trying to run a newly created manual test in MTM I got the error dialog
‘You cannot run the selected tests, Object reference not set to an instance of an object’.
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New community build extensions documentation for the RoboCopy activity
Richard Fennell Dec 15, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have just published some documentation on theTFS2010 community build extensions RoboCopy activity
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Updated SharePoint TFS Team Build Activity documentation
Richard Fennell Dec 14, 2011 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have just published updated documentation on the SharePoint build activity for the Community TFS build extensions.
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The battle of the Lenovo W520 and projectors
Richard Fennell Dec 12, 2011 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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My Lenovo W520 is the best laptop I have owned, but I have had one major issue with it, external projectors. The problem is it does not like to duplicate the laptop screen output to a projector, it works fine if extending the desktop, not duplicating.
Every time I have tried to use it with a projector I either end up …

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Error 0x80070490 when trying to make any purchase on WP7 MarketPlace
Richard Fennell Dec 10, 2011 · 3 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Recently I have had a problem with my LG E900 Windows Phone 7 running Mango. Whenever I try to make a purchase on marketplace I was getting the error “There has been a problem completing your request. Try again later” and seeing the error code 0x80070490. A search on the web, asking around everyone I thought might have …
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When you forget to save a word document
Richard Fennell Dec 9, 2011 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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We have all done it, opened Word typed all morning, not bothering to save the file as we go along and then for some mad reason exited Word say you did not want to save. So you loose the mornings work.
Now we know that Word does an auto save, but if you are stupid enough to say yes on exit without saving how do you get …

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My experiences moving to BlogEngine.NET
Richard Fennell Dec 8, 2011 · 7 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have recently moved this blog server from using Community Server 2007 (CS2007) to BlogEngine.NET.
We started blogging in 2004 using .Text, moving through the free early versions of Community Server then purchased Community Server Small Business edition in 2007. This cost a few hundred pounds. We recently …

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