BlogEngine.Net has served us well as a blogging platform for a good few years. However, it is no longer under active support, so it is time to move on, too much risk of future security issues to ignore the lack of support. After a bit of thought we decided on WordPress as a replacement. OK this has had its own history …

Updated: 5th Aug 2016 added notes in PublisherID I have been developing a few VSTS/TFS build related extensions and have published a few in the VSTS marketplace. This has all been a somewhat manual process, a mixture of Gulp and PowerShell has helped a bit, but I decided it was time to try to do a more formal approach. …

**Updated 22 Mar 2016 **This task is available in the VSTS Marketplace If you are using Pester to unit test your PowerShell code then there is a good chance you will want to include it in your automated build process. To do this, you need to get Pester installed on your build machine. The usual options would be Manual …

After updating the TFS 2010 client from Beta2 to RC on my SharePoint development machine I found that I couldn’t control IIS using IISRESET, with a message usually of the following format… Attempting stop… Stop attempt failed. The system cannot find the file specified. (214794202, 80070002) As anyone who does …

Sometimes Excel doesn't behave as you expect and you learn something. Excel is complex as Joel Spolsky pointed out last week. Quite often clients will send data updates in Excel spreadsheets as this is the format they are used to working with; even if you as a programmer are not. One such workbook I have worked with …

Normally you don't encounter permission errors when installing to the global assembly cache (GAC). Today I did, even though I was logged on as a member of the administrators group (not that being an administrator is a guarantee of much). If you navigate using Windows Explorer to %windir%\assembly, what you see is the …