In case you had not noticed, the Radio TFS podcast is back after an eight month hiatus. A good place to keep in touch the the new announcements related to VS11

In case you had not noticed, the Radio TFS podcast is back after an eight month hiatus. A good place to keep in touch the the new announcements related to VS11

it has in general the past year has been quiet for BizTalk but it looks like 2012 will be quiet different. The BizTalk Team have announced that during 2012 BizTalk 2010 R2 will be out however its release will be dependant in VS 11 and Windows Server 8 and so no dates just yet New Platforms and Infrastructure Windows …

Background One area I think can be found confusing in TFS Lab Management is that all environments are associated with specific Team Projects (TP) within Team Project Collections (TPC). This is not what you might first expect if you think of Lab Management as just a big Hyper-V server. When configured you end up with a …

Background One area I think can be found confusing in TFS Lab Management is that all environments are associated with specific Team Projects (TP) within Team Project Collections (TPC). This is not what you might first expect if you think of Lab Management as just a big Hyper-V server. When configured you end up with a …

A new release of Community TFS Build Extensions have shipped. You can find more details on Mike Fourie’s blog or at the project home on Codeplex

Today we got Direct Access working; I can now access all the features of our TFS Lab Management instance from home. No more remoting onto on box to hop to another. I never need to go to the office again!

The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 is now coming down as part of Windows Update. Watch out for this, my PC has just taken best part of two hours to reboot as it decided to apply this service pack, even though I had already applied it manually when I built the PC

If you are working with CodedUI tests in Visual Studio you sometimes get unexpected results, such as the wrong field be selected in replays. When trying to work out what has happened the logging features are really useful. These are probably already switched on, but you can check by following the details in this post. …

DevOps seems to be the new buzz role in the industry at present. People who can bridge the gap between the worlds of development and IT pros. Given my career history this could be a description of the path I took. I have done both, and now sit in the middle covering ALM consultancy where I work with both roles. You …