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 …

Code coverage with TFS Build can be enabled by editing the build definition and modifying the Automated Tests settings. Unfortunately this may instrument more assemblies than you want it to. For example, Unit Test projects will appear as part of the code coverage results. To solve this there is a filter mechanism that …

This is a follow on post from my introduction to Windows Azure Websites and shows you how you can synchronise your website in TFS with Windows Azure. One of the biggest problems with the way you deploy applications to Windows Azure is that minor changes (e.g .markup, content and styling) require a redeploy to publish …

Just finished at the Hacking Imagination event in County Durham. My role was to help mentor and encourage the students from Universities and Colleges in the North East of England to help them to develop their ideas for their Imagine Cup entries. The event was held in a secret location in county Durham and the students …

I suddenly started to get a CommunicationObjectFaultedException after I checked my azure code in to TFS I could get it working by editing the web.config file manually, but it didn’t seem to matter what I actually changed!! It was the act of editing the web.config file that made it writable and it could therefore be …