Episode Two of this year’s Xmas Card Adventure is now live on our website – want to know what the BMBrigade find on reaching their destination? What has happened to Santa?! Can our heroes’ Windows Phone 7’s help save the world this Xmas?? Enjoying the adventure? Watch out for Episode Three on 8th December, when General …

… from Black Marble this December Black Marble has always been proud of its strong credentials for the work we do, and this year we are encouraging our customers to take advantage of them too! This year we have 5 Great Reasons for you to take out a Visual Studio Health Check from Black Marble:

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The voting has opened for DDD9, As with all the DDD style events the agenda is set by you, the attendees, so get in there any say what you are interested in, it is not as if there is not a great choice this time. I have a session up on writing custom build activities for TFS 2010 which I hope some of you will find …

It’s that time of year again … Santa has been kidnapped and the only team that can save him is the Black Marble Brigade! And what great tools do the team have at their disposal this year?! Why Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft Surface! There is no limit to what use these can be put to to save Santa and Christmas in 2010. …

Did you miss the Typemock session on mocking legacy system this week? If you you can watch a recording at the Typemock site. If you are interested a more SharePoint specific session check out my session next week.

The Kinect works by projecting infrared dots and mapping the distortion to find out what is happening in the world Audrey Penven a photographer has taken some stunning pictures with an infra-red camera of how this works http://www.flickr.com/photos/audreypenven/5197391931/in/set-72157625454305998/ Just keep pretending …

When migrating from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, no matter how hard you try there’s always the chance the the content database upgrade process will throw out errors about features being referenced that are not present in the farm. We have used Stefan Goßner’s WssAnalyzeFeatures and WSSRemoveFeatureFromSite (see his …

Thanks to everyone who turned out from Rik’s and my session last night at NEBytes. I have not bothered uploading my slides as it was really a demo driven session, but there is a video of a similar session I did at NDC2010 However, if you want to learn more about using Typemock Isolator with legacy system why not …

For ages now I have have been prompted when I loaded Live Writer that there was an upgrade available, and every time I tried it get it, at the end of the install it failed and rolled back. As I did not have time to dig into it I just used the older version. Well today, due to upgrades in our LAN, I need to upgraded …

Adding a Visual Basic 6 project to your TFS 2010 build process is not are hard as I had expected it to be. I had assumed I would have to write a custom build workflow template, but it turned out I was able to use the default template with just a few parameters changed from their defaults. This is the process I …