Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is out for testing.

Scott has a great blog post on SP1, but the highlights (which are numerous)

- Classic ASP intelisense and debugging is back

- Faster application startup time

- Better client side rollout

- New Windows Form Controls

- WPF Performance Improvements

- WPF Extensible shader …

Thanks to everyone who attended my session in Glasgow yesterday, I hope you found it useful.

The slides will appear on the DDS site at some point but you can find them now on the Black Marble site. There is also a web cast of a virtual identical presentation on the Extreme Programming Club site.

The noticeable …

Since updating to TFS 2008 we have lost our Sprint Burndown chart in eScrum, not a major problem as we use the cumulative flow in its place. However, I have eventually got round to fixing it.

It turns out the problem is down to the the way the dates for the start and end of the Sprint are converted to measure names for …

If you are using the TFS API within a WebApp with impersonation there is a good chance you will see the error below when you run the web site on IIS

System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.    
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException(ExceptionResource resource)    
at …

I have just adding some Performance Counters to instrument some code and had a few issues that are worth knowing about.

I created two categories of counters using the following code:

//Create a category with a single counter
PerformanceCounterCategory.Create(
               "categoryName", …

I hope you all had a great Star Wars day, May the 4th be with you.

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The BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 is a management pack for discovery and monitoring of BizTalk Server components and applications. This new management pack includes monitoring for most of the new R2 Features

• Suspended Message Alerts
• Alert Suppression Policy
• Native EDI 
• BAM Technical …

Saw an excellent play last night, Hapgood at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. For those who have no heard if it, it is a Tom Stoppard play about spies and physics set in the late 80s.

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