have been built in compliance with requirements and recommendations

Microsoft has a link to a set of Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Tools, get them here. The tool set includes great products such as FxCop. A SDL Thread Modelling Tool allows non-security specialists to enter already known information, …

We recently moved our central SQL server to new SAN hardware and at the same time upgraded from SQL2005 to SQL2008. Once this was done we noticed that our TFS Reports were running against old Warehouse data.

Checking the TFS Application Tier event log we saw:

TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team …

About 2 hours ago Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released to MSDN subscribers, the usual wait for the download now start!

Also the revised SKU and licensing model for 2010 was made public by Brian Harry. This is meant to be simplification, but still remains fairly complex with the usually questions over ‘is that in this …

So what I have I been doing of late? The blog has been a bit quiet. Well I have been having a good look at Access Services in SharePoint 2010. This has been an interesting experience, as I am not historically what you might call an avid Access developer.

Like most .NET developers I had looked as Access as more of a …

Wednesday this week is the next Agile Yorkshire meeting, there are 2 presentations and a discussion planned:

• Agile War Stories: A Project Managers Perspective. Ian Carroll
• User Story Estimation: Alan Williams
• An open discussion about Lean and Kanban in software development.

As usual the meeting is  at The Victoria …

This week I tried to add a new project collection to our TFS 2010 Beta1 test system. All seemed to be going OK, the settings verified without issue but I got the error TF252005 when it tried to create the associated SharePoint site (on the WSS 3.0 instance on the TFS application tier).

Now unlike TFS 2008 this was not …

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/> The second day of Black Marble events is an exploration of the forthcoming Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. …

Microsoft has released its Security Essentials package of free Virus,Spyware and Malware tools.

Get it here

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