My Team Build 2010 custom activity for Typemock Isolator is now available at http://site.typemock.com/add-ons/.

It is packaged as a zip which include all the source and a compiled assembly as well a document detailing usage and why the solution is constructed as it is.

Hope you find it useful

I recently tried to use Typemock Isolator inside a ASP.NET page load event, to fake out some SharePoint SPLists e.g.

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
     SPSite fakeSite = Isolate.Fake.Instance();
     ……..
}

This has worked in the past but using VS2010RC and Isolator 6.0.1.0 it failed.

• If …

Whilst upgrading a single server instance of TFS 2010 Beta2 to the RC I got a TF254024 error. This occurred at the point in the upgrade wizard where it tries to list the databases available to upgrade.

The reason for the error was the account I was logged in as (the domain administrator in my case) did not have rights …

At last Microsoft has released a new generation of phone for a new generation of applications, This post is my up-to-date resource list for Windows Phone 7, I will keep this list up-to-date with new and interesting pieces of Information.

Resources

The Developer pages for Windows Phone 7 here

The Windows Phone …

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 for an estimated retail price of £484.99.

If you use a previous …

Updated 25th Mar when I found I have three sessions

I have just heard that I had two three sessions accepted for the Norwegian Developers Conference. They are:

• Putting Some Testing Into Your TFS Build 
• Making Manual Testing a Part of Your Development Process
• Developing Testable Web Parts for SharePoint.

So off to …

For some reason that is beyond me now I did not setup my Lab Manager test system to be a VHD boot. So before installing the 2010 RC version I decided to P2V this system (on the same hardware) to make backups easier whilst testing. All seemed to go well

1. I used IMAGEX to create a WIM of the disk
2. Created an empty VHD …

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