Whilst try to record some manual tests in MTM for a new Silverlight application I found I was not getting any actions recorded, just loads of “Fail to record the object corresponding to this action” warnings in the actions window. Turns out to fix this you have to do three things Install the Visual Studio 2010 Feature …

Cameron Skinner’s TechEd session that goes into more depth on the announcements for TFS vNext is up on Channel 9. Just downloading it for to watch on the train to London this afternoon. I tried streaming live on the East Coast mainline before, their on train WiFi is just not up to it.

Watching the keynote of TechEd 2011 there were some interesting announcements on the vNext for TFS (the TFS section starts about 1:20 into the keynote). Storyboarding Assistant – A new product using PowerPoint as the core tools to gather requirements New web based dashboard to help manage requirement work items, with …

In the 27th June I will be speaking on Lab Management at Microsoft’s “Application Lifecycle Management for Independent Software Vendors” event at TVP. For more details see the Microsoft event site

If you talk to those who know me about my pet hates in SharePoint, the search pages will come up every time. It’s not that I hate search itself – that’s great, but the minimal.master is just plain annoying. It makes the search centre a black hole into which you can fall but not navigate out of – there’s no navigation …

Can’t make it to London for Microsoft TechDays? Microsoft is running Connected Development in the heart of Yorkshire, with the top industry speakers from Microsoft and Gold ALM partners Black Marble and nFocus. Highlights include Microsoft Developer Evangelist Mike Taulty on the latest news from MIX, TFS Product …

Whist trying to do a cross domain migration of some source between two TFS2010 servers, I got the less than helpful runtime exception System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: activeWorkspace at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Migration.Tfs2010VCAdapter.TfsUtil.CleanWorkspace(Workspace …

Spelunking through the internet I came across a project at Microsoft to engage people with various Microsoft Technologies using comic form. Black Marble have been producing Xmas comics over the last few years and the results have been great. The series of comics follows “Squishy” the stress ball, Leah and Zach in a …

Great news the Black Marble’s WP7 TFS Phone client has won one of the three top prizes on Red Gate Software’s Windows Phone 7 Competition You can read the judges comments on the competition blog, I would stress it only mentions my name, but this was Black Marble team effort. If you want to try it out get the trial …

Are you unsure how TFS 2010 hangs together or what is entailed in installing it? Well never fear, Microsoft are hosting a webcast on the 12th May that will be given by Black Marble’s own Robert Hancock one of our ALM consultants, which will explain all. To register check the Microsoft events site