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Where can you learn more on Typemock after last night session at NEBytes?
Richard Fennell Nov 18, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Thanks to everyone who turned out from Rik’s and my session last night at NEBytes. I have not bothered uploading my slides as it was really a demo driven session, but there is a video of a similar session I did at NDC2010
However, if you want to learn more about using Typemock Isolator with legacy system why not …

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0x80004004 when trying to upgrade Live Writer and Messenger
Richard Fennell Nov 17, 2010 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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For ages now I have have been prompted when I loaded Live Writer that there was an upgrade available, and every time I tried it get it, at the end of the install it failed and rolled back. As I did not have time to dig into it I just used the older version.
Well today, due to upgrades in our LAN, I need to upgraded …

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Adding a Visual Basic 6 project to a TFS 2010 Build
Richard Fennell Nov 16, 2010 · 3 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Adding a Visual Basic 6 project to your TFS 2010 build process is not are hard as I had expected it to be. I had assumed I would have to write a custom build workflow template, but it turned out I was able to use the default template with just a few parameters changed from their defaults. This is the process I …
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You can’t edit a TFS 2010 build workflow template with just Team Explorer installed
Richard Fennell Nov 12, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I tried to open a TFS 2010 build template within the Visual Studio shell (the bit that gets installed when you put Team Explorer onto a PC) and saw the error “The document contains errors that must be fixed before the designer can be loaded”.
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[More] Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos
Richard Fennell Nov 10, 2010 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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This is a follow up to the post Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos – well it looks like fun with hindsight
When I wrote the last post I thought I had our WCF Kerberos issues sorted, I was wrong. I had not checked what happened when I tried to access the webpart from outside our TMG firewall. When I did this I was …

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A week with a Windows Phone 7 – It just works!
Richard Fennell Nov 9, 2010 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have had my LG WP7 phone about a week now. The best thing about it, it just works. Ok I have had a few learning issues over the Metro UI, but usually the answer is so obvious I have just overlooked it. Stupid things like I was looking for the button that was equivalent to the long press on the end key on my HTC …
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November Agile Yorkshire meeting “William Hill Agile Case Study”
Richard Fennell Nov 4, 2010 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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The title of the November Agile Yorkshire meeting (on Tuesday the 9th) is "A case study exploring how agile methodologies were used to help change the way sports are traded at William Hill forever.". As usual this is a free event and is hosted at the Old Broadcasting house in Leeds starting at 6:30pm and I am …
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Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos – well it looks like fun with hindsight
Richard Fennell Oct 29, 2010 · 10 min read · Uncategorised ·
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[Updated 10 Nov 2010: Also see [More] Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos]
I have been battling some WCF authentication problems for a while now; I have been migrating our internal support desk call tracking system so that it runs as webpart hosted inside Sharepoint 2010 and uses WCF to access the backend services …

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PDC 2010 thoughts - the next morning
Richard Fennell Oct 29, 2010 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I sat in the office yesterday with a beer in my hand watching the PDC2010 keynote. I have to say I preferred this to the option of a flight, jet lag and a less than comfortable seat in a usually overly cooled conference hall. With the Silverlight streaming the experience was excellent, especially as we connected an …
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Common confusion I have seen with Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management
Richard Fennell Oct 25, 2010 · 7 min read · Uncategorised ·
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With any new product there can be some confusion over the exact range and scope of features, this is just as true for VS2010 Lab Management as any other. In fact given the number of moving parts (infrastructure you need in place to get it running) it can be more confusing than average. In this post I will cover the …
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