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VS2012 Tasks Defaulting to Resolved when you check in.

Tom Barnes — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 13:50:32 +0000

Problem

So when you have a task in TFS under My Work that you are actively working on and want to check in some changes but the task is not complete. It defaults to Resolved. Which if you make a quick mistake and don't set it to associate using the drop down (Fig1) removing the hours remaining value (Scrum Template) from your task and mark it as done. You the have to find your work item again and set it back to in progress to check in further work against it and find out the remaining hours of the task re-inputting the value.

Renewing a Developer Licence on Windows 8/RT

Tom Barnes — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:26:00 +0000

Here's a quick tip if you have some side loaded apps on windows 8/RT and your developer licence has expired. When this happens the apps have a cross on them and are unable to open taking you to the store.

Problem

Error "Your developer license has expired. To continue to use this app, please renew your license"

Solution

Open PowerShell with admin privileges and execute the following command

Show-WindowsDeveloperLicenseRegistration

This will prompt you through the same dialog as when installing your first side loaded app. A developer Licence expires every month so a quick script to bring up this prompt could be handy.

Microsoft Surface File Size Limit with Explorer Fix

Tom Barnes — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:57:01 +0000

Today I ran into an issue on a win RT device when trying to download few folders from our SharePoint site using Explorer.

The Problem

This problem occurred when I used the ‘Open with Explorer’ interface in the Library Tools > Library pane to get the required folders, as I wanted to copy a few folders down from SharePoint onto my Surface.

One of the files failed to copy with the following error:

Tom Testing His New Blog!

Tom Barnes — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 17:33:00 +0000

Hello, I’m currently setting up my first blog and this is a post to check its configured correctly. All being well this should go to my LinkedIn and Twitter accounts auto-magically .

Hopefully I'll have some useful and interesting stuff coming soon around the MS Technologies and solutions to problems I come across in my role of Software Developer in Test, for now here's a picture (to make my post prettier) of the case I just bought for my gaming rig.