This one caused some consternation, I can tell you. As usual, the solution could be found on the great wide web, but it took some digging, so as usual I am repeating it here.

As part of a SharePoint migration we did recently, we replaced a SharePoint 2007 feature that the client was using (which added content types to …

Whist recently installing a TFS 2010 system onto a single box server, that was also a domain controller, I had a problem that though everything seemed in order I could not view my reporting services based reports in either SharePoint or directly from the http://myserver/reports interface.

During the installation I had …

IIS Express is a great addition to the tools for .NET web developers; it allow a slightly cut down copy of IIS 7.5 to be run without administrative privileges on a developer’s PC. This means we can hopefully get away from the problems associated by either

1. Using Cassini – which is not IIS and does not do any clever …

If you try to create an automated TFS build of a Windows Phone 7 Silverlight application on a ‘default installed’ build agent you will see errors along the lines of

The imported project "C:Program FilesMSBuildMicrosoftSilverlight for Phonev4.0Microsoft.Silverlight.WindowsPhone.Overrides.targets" was not …

For those who have not noticed, DDD Scotland’s registration is now open at http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/scotland2011/Default.aspx.

Sad to say my proposed session did not get accepted, but that just means I have the chance to see more sessions myself!

At the end of the month I will be speaking at a series of free Microsoft events in Belfast and Dublin. There going to be two session at each location

Managing application lifecycle “From requirements to retirement” with Team Foundation Server 2010

• Dublin - 31/03/2011 (AM): …