Black Marble’s Robert Hogg, Steve Spencer and Rik Hepworth flew all the way to Anaheim in California in order to bring you the highlights and key announcements around Windows 8! On 12 October, at The Holiday Inn in Yorkshire, we will bring our take on the news for IT Professionals in the morning, and for developers in …

I have just posted new VirtualPC activity documentation for TFS 2010 Community Build Extensions. This has been a really nasty set of documentation to write as getting this activity running raises a lot of issues over COM security; thanks to Rik and Andy (our SharePoint specialists at Black Marble who are therefore used …

In case you did not make it to the Microsoft Build Conference, Black Marble are running a pair of free events in Leeds on the 12th of October on Windows 8 and the other announcements made in Anaheim earlier this month. The morning session is focused on the IT pro side and the afternoon on development, so why not make a …

Updated 27 July 2013 - Here is a potential solution Update 27 Sep 2011 – this seemed such as good idea when I initially tried it out, but after more testing I see changing the build number part way through a build causes problems. The key one being that when you queue the next build it is issued the same revision …

The video of my recent webinar for Typemock on using Isolator for designing SharePoint webparts is up at http://www.typemock.com/sharepoint-web-parts You can also find a link to it from http://bit.ly/RFennellVideos, as well as links to all the other videos of my presentations I know of that are publically available.

Today I have posted a few more pages of the getting started documentation for the TFS 2010 community build extensions. This is an on-going task, I hope to get a few more written when I get a chance. I am writing the documentation in no obvious order, so let me know if any specific activity is in more need of some …

Mike Fourie has just announced that we’ve just shipped the second stable release of the Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions. Well worth a look if you need to customised your TFS 2010 build with any of the following AssemblyInfo BuildReport BuildWorkspace CodeMetric DateAndTime Email File GetBuildController …

Thanks to any one who attended my Typemock Isolator session today, hope you found it useful. In due course the video will be up on the Typemock site. But of you want to read more on using Isolator with SHarePoint have a look at Mocking Sharepoint for Design with Typemock Isolator Mocks SP2010 64bit Assemblies with …

There is a good chance if you are using TFS that you will want to create some custom reports. You can write these in Reporting Services via BI Studio or Excel, but I wanted to use Report Builder, but could not see the Report Builder button on this Reporting Services menu The problem was multi-levelled First I had to …

After updating my local test instance of TFS2010 to service pack 1 I came across the following error when trying to connect to a team project collection: I launched the TFS Administration Console and selected the Default Collection from the Team Project Collections section, my first thought was to try stopping and …