The March 2011 version of the TFS Power Tools has been released. There are plenty of fixes and enhancements, especially to the TFS backup tool.

For more details have a look at Brian Harry’s blog.

Back in September I asked the question Does anyone need a VS2010 Custom Build Activity for StyleCop? and a good few people said yes and asked me when the activity would be released.

Well I had forgotten to say that the Codeplex TFS Build Extensions project, which the activity code got included into, has made it’s first …

Whilst doing some tidying on a multi-server TFS 2010 system I needed to move a team project collection from one Application Tier (AT) to another. Both ATs (which were not a load balanced pair) shared the same SQL server data tier (DT). It should have been easy using the TFS Administration Console.

I backed up the TPC …

When loading an ASP.NET 3.5 web application that has been compiler for Any CPU onto an IIS7 server I got the error

The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine.

This was because the server was running a 64bit OS and only the 32bit Access Driver was installed. The quick fix to get this …

Black Marble’s first WP7 game has been published onto the Marketplace, a game of strategy. Choose to grow the number of counters you have your jump squares to gain territory.

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I recently was asked why a client had experienced some unexpected results when merging a development branch back into the main trunk on a TFS 2010 installation.

Turns out the issue was that during some tests that the both the Main and Dev branches had been renamed, and new branches of the same names created. So they …