Just shy of a full year from my last post. Crikey So it’s another TFS related post, but not specifically to do with TFS. I still perform TFS migrations/upgrades from time to time here at Black Marble as we still have many customers who can’t migrate to Azure DevOps for one reason or another. A few weeks ago we …

I recently started working on a new Logic App for a customer using the Enterprise Integration Pack for Visual Studio 2015, I was greeted with a familiar sight, the schema generation tools from BizTalk, but with a new lick of paint The Logic App requires the use of Flat File schemas, so I knocked up a schema from the …

An interesting aspect of a TFS Upgrade I found myself in recently was to do with SharePoint Integrations with Team Foundation Server. As a bit of a pre-amble, back in the day, when TFS was a bit more primitive, it didn’t have a rich dashboard experience like it does today, and so leaned on it’s distant cousin …

Firstly it’s been a while (about 4 years or so) since I last blogged, and so there’s going to be a bit of a gap in what I blog about now versus what I used to blog about. Why the big gap, and what’s been happening between I might talk about in a future post but for now I thought I’d share a recent war story of a TFS …

So recently the Visual Studio Team released the Update 2 RC for the 2013. Among other things it has updates for project templates including the Universal Application project template. This particular feature is something that my current development team were interested in as the project we’re currently working on is a …

I’ve been helping our other Tester Tom Barnes on a project he’s been lead tester on for a couple of months, mostly running acceptance tests here and there when I’ve had a spare couple of minutes. As mentioned in previous posts (and in Richard and Rik’s blogs) we use a lot of SCVMM virtual environments at black marble, …

Well firstly apologies for anyone who was hanging onto my every word and waiting for this follow up post to my previous article. I was so terribly busy at the office (with the project this exercise pertained to) that I never had time to finish the automated build deploy I was working on in that last blog post. Or …

Hello welcome to my blog, this being my first post. I’m a Junior developer in test here at Black Marble and my day to day job roles are starting encompass dev-ops as well as testing. So there’s this one project we’ve been working on which I have been working to automate using end to end Build Deploy with Lab …