Archive

2024³⁷

October⁴

ProjectFileIndexer exceptions in SonarQube

October 31, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Why is my SnipeIT instance suddenly slow?

October 28, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using Azure Service Connection names that are stored in variables group in Azure DevOps Pipeline

October 21, 2024 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Editing multiple files in the Azure DevOps UI and committing them in a single commit

October 18, 2024 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September²

Generating Visual Studio SQL Database Projects from the command line

September 27, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Showing Bicep Linting Issues as Errors and Warnings in Azure DevOps Pipelines

September 3, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

August⁵

How to run your own maintenance job on Azure DevOps pipelines (Revisited now using Workload Identity federation)

August 29, 2024 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Problem running Playwright UX tests on hosted Github Actions Runners

August 8, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Powershell token replacement failing for MSDeploy in GitHub Action

August 6, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Fixes for issues moving from on-premise Azure DevOps agents to Azure Managed DevOps Pool agents

August 2, 2024 · 7 min · Richard Fennell

A first look at using Azure Managed DevOps Pools

August 1, 2024 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

July⁸

Watch out that Azure DevOps Server 2022.2 drops support for SQL2017

July 26, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Yet more Azure DevOps pipeline variable expansion strangeness

July 23, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Getting parameters out of ARM/BICEP Deployments

July 22, 2024 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

More on when Azure DevOps variables are available in pipeline runs

July 11, 2024 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Checking out Git submodules when Azure DevOps Protected Access to repos is enabled

July 10, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

So my Azure DevOps TF30063 error was down to DNS again

July 9, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Where has the staging URL PR comment generated by my GitHub Actions workflow gone?

July 2, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Don’t call your Azure DevOps YAML Deployment stage ‘deployment’ - strange things happen

July 1, 2024 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June⁴

It’s the SonarQube Elasticsearch indexes again

June 28, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Passing dynamically sized object parameters to Azure DevOps Pipeline templates

June 24, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Why are my Azure DevOps Pipeline cache hits missing

June 5, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Still time to register for the Global DevOps Experience

June 3, 2024 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

May⁵

Azure DevOps pipeline jobs failing to start

May 29, 2024 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Failing client connections with SQL OPENJSON Incorrect Syntax error after upgrading Identity Server 6 to 7

May 29, 2024 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for SonarQube recoverable indexing failures error

May 16, 2024 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Announcing a Global DevOps Experience venue at Black Marble

May 13, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Building Reporting Service .RPTProj files in Visual Studio 2022 from the command line

May 3, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

April¹

Creating an undo PowerShell Script for batch updates of Azure DevOps Work Items

April 16, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March⁵

Personal Access Tokens (PATs) are not your friends

March 22, 2024 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

It is really time to get off Azure DevOps TFVC source control

March 21, 2024 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Don’t forget to commit your configuration file

March 20, 2024 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Parsing error with Azure Bicep files in SonarQube

March 19, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

GitHub Events not being triggered for auto-merged Dependabot PRs

March 18, 2024 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

February³

Site fails to render when updating Hugo version

February 16, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Getting a BadGateway error when trying to create Azure DevOps Work items using Power Automated

February 13, 2024 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

I can’t get git.exe installed on my corporate PC

February 2, 2024 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

2023²³

December²

Change in Edge/Chromium profile settings broke my Azure Entra ID SSO

December 21, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Caching NVD Vulnerability Dependency data on hosted Azure DevOps Pipeline agents

December 6, 2023 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

October²

New problem when generating build agents using Packer

October 19, 2023 · 7 min · Richard Fennell

Practical DevOps in the Enterprise - Event & Whitepaper

October 8, 2023 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September¹

SonarQube Docker Container will not start

September 27, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

August³

Setting Azure DevOps Agent Pool Descriptions via the Azure DevOps API

August 24, 2023 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Setting up Snipe IT on Azure using Docker

August 9, 2023 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

SonarCloud Azure DevOps PR Analysis fails with a 404 error

August 3, 2023 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

July³

Fix for metadata generation failed exit code: 2147450750 loading wrong version of DLLs when building Azure Functions

July 19, 2023 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Update on sending social media posts from Hugo based static site

July 13, 2023 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How to run your own maintenance job on Azure DevOps pipelines

July 12, 2023 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

April⁴

Bit rot is killing my pipelines

April 26, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Moving my Azure DevOps Pipeline generated social posts to Azure Logic Apps

April 25, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A more secure alternative to PAT tokens for accessing Azure DevOps Programmatically

April 21, 2023 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Downloading NuGet packages with ‘System.Net.WebClient’ from an Azure DevOps Artifact feed

April 1, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March²

Pinning specific Azure DevOps task versions

March 8, 2023 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting x86 .NET 3.x tests running on the latest Azure Devops hosted agents

March 6, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

February²

Getting “cannot find path” error using Install-Package

February 27, 2023 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

What happens when you link an Azure DevOps Variable Group to an Azure Key Vault?

February 13, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

January⁴

Handling return values from Azure Functions in Hugo static website

January 20, 2023 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Could not find assembly deploying a dotnet 6 console app

January 13, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Book Review - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

January 11, 2023 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Duplicate Test DLLs with vstest.console.exe causes failures

January 9, 2023 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

2022³⁰

December³

GitHub agent Node version stops Hugo site build

December 16, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Updating my Azure DevOps Pipeline Task to Use the Node16 Runner

December 13, 2022 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

You need a license to touch that (revised 18 years on)

December 5, 2022 · 11 min · Richard Fennell

November⁴

Fixing my Logitech Spotlight Presentation Remote that would not switch on

November 14, 2022 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Using Azure DevOps Migration Tools Again

November 11, 2022 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

GitVersion task fails on a cloned Azure DevOps YAML Pipeline

November 8, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating our “Living the Dream” DevOps demo to GitHub Enterprise

November 1, 2022 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

October²

Ignite 2022 Azure DevOps & GitHub Announcements - GitHub Advanced Security comes to Azure DevOps

October 12, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

SonarCloud PR branch analysis when the main/trunk branch has not been analysed

October 1, 2022 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

September³

Showing OWASP Dependency Check results in SonarCloud

September 29, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Clearing the AssignedTo field on an Azure DevOps Work items with the AZ CLI

September 6, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Book Review “Accelerate DevOps with GitHub” by Michael Kaufmann

September 4, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

July⁵

Why has my HP printer become a DVD? A fix for HP USB Printers not being detected on Windows 10/11

July 30, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Why has my MVC site stopped working?

July 28, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot retrieve Umbraco node

July 25, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Social Media Posts after Migrating from WordPress to Hugo Static Pages

July 7, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating from WordPress to Hugo Static Pages

July 1, 2022 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

June²

Don’t skimp on resources for GHES for demo instances

June 16, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for can’t add second outlook.com account to Outlook Desktop - requires non-existent PIN

June 10, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

May⁵

Adding Job Summary support to my GitHub Release Notes Action

May 19, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for cannot ‘TypeError: Cannot read property’ when Dependabot submits a PR to upgrade a Jest Module

May 19, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

On-Demand video available for May’s ‘Microsoft and GitHub DevOps Forum: DevSecOps’

May 17, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More examples of using custom variables in Azure DevOps multi-stage YML

May 5, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Updating the Azure Application client_secret used by Packer

May 3, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

April²

Speaking at the rescheduled Microsoft and GitHub DevOps Forum on the 4th of May

April 7, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for Azure DevOps deployment to an environment stuck in “Job is pending” state

April 7, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

March¹

Speaking at the Microsoft and GitHub DevOps Forum on the 10th of March

March 3, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

February¹

A workaround for not being able to access custom variables via stagedependencies if they are set in deployment jobs in Azure DevOps Pipelines

February 19, 2022 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

January²

The importance of blogging - or how to do your future self a favour

January 14, 2022 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using Azure DevOps Stage Dependency Variables with Conditional Stage and Job Execution

January 10, 2022 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

2021¹⁸

November²

Setting Azure DevOps ‘All Repositories’ Policies via the CLI

November 12, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How to fix Azure Pipeline YAML parsing errors seen after renaming the default Git branch

November 3, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

October³

New features for my Azure DevOps Release Notes Extension

October 30, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

The case of the self-cancelling Azure DevOps pipeline

October 29, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Automating adding issues to Beta GitHub Projects using GitHub Actions

October 15, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

September¹

Making SonarQube Quality Checks a required PR check on Azure DevOps

September 21, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

August²

My cancer story – thus far

August 23, 2021 · 14 min · Richard Fennell

But what if I can’t use GitHub Codespaces? Welcome to github.dev

August 12, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

July¹

How I dealt with a strange problem with PSRepositories and dotnet NuGet sources

July 16, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June²

Porting my Visual Studio Parameters.xml Generator tool to Visual Studio 2022 Preview

June 22, 2021 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Automating the creation of Team Projects in Azure DevOps

June 10, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

May¹

Getting the approver for release to an environment within an Azure DevOps Multi-Stage YAML pipeline

May 15, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

April²

Loading drivers for cross-browser testing with Selenium

April 21, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A first look at the beta of GitHub Issue Forms

April 6, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March²

Tidying up local branches with a Git Alias and a PowerShell Script

March 16, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Added Manual Test Plan support to my Azure DevOps Cross-Platform Release notes Task

March 3, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

February¹

Fixing my SQLite Error 5: ‘database is locked’ error in Entity Framework

February 12, 2021 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

January¹

What to do when moving your Azure DevOps organisation from one region to another is delayed.

January 25, 2021 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

2020³⁷

December⁴

Porting my Release Notes Azure DevOps Pipelines Extension to GitHub Actions

December 31, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

My DDD2020 Session - How can I automatically create Azure DevOps Release Notes and how can I publish them

December 21, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Running UWP Unit Tests as part of an Azure DevOps Pipeline

December 8, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Out of Memory running SonarQube Analysis on a large projects

December 1, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

November³

Getting confused over Azure DevOps Pipeline variable evaluation

November 27, 2020 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

How to export Azure DevOps Classic Builds and Release to YAML

November 13, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting my ThinkPad Active Pen working with my Lenovo X1 Carbon Extreme

November 6, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

October²

Black Marble BiteSize MVP Interview

October 15, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using GitVersion when your default branch is not called ‘master’

October 14, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

September²

How do handle PRs for Azure DevOps YAML Pipelines if the YAML templates are in a different repo?

September 18, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

How can I automatically create Azure DevOps Release Notes and how can I publish them?

September 15, 2020 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

August³

Fix For: ‘The pipeline is not valid error: Unable to resolve latest version’ on an Azure DevOps YAML pipeline

August 27, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Exporting Release Notes and WIKIs as PDFs using a new Azure DevOps Extension that wrappers AzureDevOps.WikiPDFExport

August 27, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using the Post Build Cleanup Task from the Marketplace in YAML based Azure DevOps Pipelines

August 19, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

July²

Zwift and the joys of home networking

July 13, 2020 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Bringing Stage based release notes in Multi-Stage YAML to my Cross Platform Release Notes Exension

July 6, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June⁴

Timeout Errors ‘Extracting Schema’ when running SQLPackage for a Migration to Azure DevOps Services

June 25, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Getting started with Aggregator CLI for Azure DevOps Work Item Roll-up

June 12, 2020 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

How to do local template development for my Cross platform Release notes task

June 10, 2020 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

New feature for Cross Platform Release notes - get parent and child work items

June 6, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

May⁴

And another new feature for my Cross Platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Task - commit/changeset file details

May 20, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Another feature for my Cross Platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Extension–access to test results

May 18, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Running SonarQube for a .NET Core project in Azure DevOps YAML multi-stage pipelines

May 11, 2020 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Announcing the deprecation of my Azure DevOps Pester Extension as it has been migrated to the Pester Project and republished under a new ID

May 3, 2020 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

April⁷

Fix for ‘System.BadImageFormatException’ when running x64 based tests inside a Azure DevOps Release

April 23, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

I decided to create a video of my blog post on Multistage YAML pipelines

April 22, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

And more enriching the data available in my Azure DevOps Pipelines Cross Platform Release Notes Task

April 21, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Further enriching the data available in my Azure DevOps Pipelines Cross Platform Release Notes Task

April 15, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Swapping my Azure DevOps Pipeline Extensions release process to use Multistage YAML pipelines

April 7, 2020 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

My Azure DevOps Pipeline is not triggering on a GitHub Pull request - fixed

April 7, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Enriching the data available in my Azure DevOps Pipelines Cross Platform Release Notes Task

April 4, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March⁴

Experiences setting up Azure Active Directory single sign-on (SSO) integration with GitHub Enterprise

March 30, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A major new feature for my Cross-platform Release Notes Azure DevOps Pipelines Extension–Handlebars Templating Support

March 11, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Where did all my test results go?

March 5, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

You need to pass a GitHub PAT to create Azure DevOps Agent Images using Packer

March 2, 2020 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

February¹

Registration is open for the Global DevOps Bootcamp 2020 @ Black Marble

February 1, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

January¹

Visual Studio Online is back and it is an editor this time!

January 17, 2020 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2019¹⁵

December⁴

A technique for porting PowerShell based Azure DevOps Extensions to Node so they can be run cross-platform without a complete re-write

December 28, 2019 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Creating Hyper-V hosted Azure DevOps Private Agents based on the same VM images as used by Microsoft for their Hosted Agents

December 21, 2019 · 16 min · Richard Fennell

A fix for Lability ‘Datafile not found’ error

December 7, 2019 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Major enhancements to my Azure DevOps Cross Platform Release Notes Extension

December 4, 2019 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

October²

Cannot queue a new build on Azure DevOps Server 2019.1 due to the way a SQL cluster was setup

October 17, 2019 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Release of my video on ‘Introduction to GitHub Actions’

October 10, 2019 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September¹

A first look at GitHub Action - converting my Azure DevOps tasks to GitHub Actions

September 10, 2019 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

August²

Strange issue with multiple calls to the same REST WebClient in PowerShell

August 29, 2019 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Authentication loops swapping organisations in Azure DevOps

August 13, 2019 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

July¹

You can’t use Azure DevOps Pipeline Gates to check services behind a firewall

July 25, 2019 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June¹

Review of ‘Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook’ - well worth getting

June 6, 2019 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

May²

Azure DevOps Repos branch build policies not triggering when expected in PRs - Solved

May 23, 2019 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Regex issues in Node

May 23, 2019 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

April²

A fix for Error: SignerSign() failed." (-2146958839/0x80080209) with SignTool.exe

April 30, 2019 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating a GUI based build to YAML in Azure DevOps Pipelines

April 26, 2019 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

2018³⁸

December³

A task for documenting your Azure DevOps Pipeline extensions for YAML usage

December 18, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Programmatically adding User Capabilities to Azure DevOps Agents

December 6, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Azure Pipeline YAML support on VSCode

December 6, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

November³

Keeping Azure DevOps organisations inherited process templates in sync

November 29, 2018 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

DPI problems after upgrading from Camtasia 8 to 2018

November 26, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Just released a new Azure Pipelines Extension to update Git based WIKIs

November 20, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

October⁵

Azure DevOps Services & Server Alerts DSL - an alternative to TFS Aggregator?

October 30, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

YAML documentation for my Azure Pipeline Tasks (and how I generated it)

October 25, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft post root cause analysis on recent Azure DevOps Issues

October 17, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using Paths in PR Triggers on an Azure DevOps Pipelines Builds

October 2, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Registration open for free Black Marble events on modern process adoption using the cloud

October 1, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September³

TFS 2018 Update 3 Released

September 17, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Postmortem published by the Microsoft VSTS Team on last week’s Azure outage

September 11, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

VSTS becomes Azure DevOps

September 10, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

August⁴

Videos do not play in VSTS WIKI via relative links - workaround

August 31, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Registering an agent with VSTS and getting the message "Agent pool not found"

August 16, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences migrating TFS XML Team Project Templates to Inherited Team Project Templates

August 2, 2018 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Hello sign in does not work on my first generation Surface Book after a rebuild - fixed

August 2, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

June¹

Getting Remote Desktop Manager 2.7 working sanely with mixed high DPI screens

June 8, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

May⁴

A workaround for the error ‘TF14061: The workspace ws_1_18;Project Collection Build Service does not exist’ when mapping a TFVC workspace

May 30, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Still a few spaces left at the Yorkshire Global DevOps BootCamp Venue hosted at Black Marble

May 25, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where do I put my testing effort?

May 17, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Making sure when you use VSTS build numbers to version Android Packages they can be uploaded to the Google Play Store

May 12, 2018 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

April³

Major new release of my VSTS Cross Platform Extension to build Release Notes

April 27, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Backing up your TFVC and Git Source from VSTS

April 20, 2018 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Opps, I made that test VSTS extension public by mistake, what do I do now?

April 14, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March³

Fix for 2755 and 1632 ‘The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible’ errors

March 21, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using VSTS Gates to help improve my deployment pipeline of VSTS Extensions to the Visual Studio Marketplace

March 20, 2018 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Fixing a ‘git-lfs filter-process: gif-lfs: command not found’ error in Visual Studio 2017

March 9, 2018 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

February⁴

Building private VSTS build agents using the Microsoft Packer based agent image creation model

February 27, 2018 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Yorkshire Venue for the Global DevOps BootCamp 2018

February 22, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New release of my Generate Parameters.xml tools to add support for app.config files

February 13, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline with Semantic Versioning

February 3, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

January⁵

What I wish I had known when I started developing Lability DevTest Lab Environments

January 31, 2018 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Versioning your ARM templates within a VSTS CI/CD pipeline

January 22, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Creating test data for my Generate Release Notes Extension for use in CI/CD process

January 19, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

How I fixed my problem that my VSTS Build Extension was too big to upload to the Marketplace

January 5, 2018 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Added a new JSON version task to my VSTS Version Extension

January 5, 2018 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2017³⁰

November⁵

Announcing a new VSTS Extension for Starting and Stopping Azure DevTest Labs VMs

November 30, 2017 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Creating a VSTS build agent on an Azure DevLabs Windows Server VM with no GUI - Using Artifacts

November 28, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Creating a VSTS build agent on an Azure DevLabs Windows Server VM with no GUI

November 23, 2017 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Future of Reporting on VSTS with VSTS Analytics

November 16, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Major update to my CI/CD process for VSTS extensions

November 9, 2017 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

October¹

Moving BM-Bloggers from BlogEngine.NET to WordPress

October 18, 2017 · 7 min · Richard Fennell

June²

Restarting VS Code fixed NPM INSTALL intermittent EPERM issues

June 26, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Duplicate project GUID blocking SonarQube analysis of Windows 10 Universal Projects

June 9, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

May⁴

Book your free place at a Global DevOps Bootcamp venue for the 17th June 2017 event

May 11, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Options migrating TFS to VSTS

May 10, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Debugging Typescript in Visual Studio Code

May 4, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Two new tasks in my Manifest Version VSTS Extension

May 2, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

April⁸

401.1 Permission error with on-premises TFS when accessing the API with a PAT

April 29, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Rik and my ‘Living the Dream - real world DevOps’ session available on YouTube

April 28, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Still spaces available for the Leeds venue of the Global DevOps Bootcamp

April 25, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Presenting at an event in Leeds - Making it easy to migrate your ALM process to the Cloud

April 25, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

On RadioTFS again

April 20, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New Cross Platform version of my Generate Release Notes VSTS Extension

April 12, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

VSTS Build Task Development - Now that is a misleading error message !

April 2, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating projects from CodePlex to GitHub due to CodePlex shutting down at the end of year

April 2, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March²

Leeds venue for the Global DevOps Bootcamp

March 16, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at VS2017 launch event in Dublin on the 30th

March 11, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

February⁴

Speaking at the SharePoint Usergroup (Leeds) on Modern ALM & DevOps

February 13, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

You never know how people will use a tool

February 7, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How you can keep using Lab Management after a move to VSTS (after a fashion)

February 6, 2017 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

I’m on @techstringy podcast talking on #DevOps

February 6, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

January⁴

New version of my Parameters.Xml Generator Visual Studio add-in now supports VS2017 too

January 29, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Can’t add users to a VSTS instance backed by an Azure Directory

January 26, 2017 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Version 2.0.x of my Generate Release Notes VSTS Task has been released with release rollup support

January 5, 2017 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A nice relaxing Christmas break (and by the way I migrated our on-premises TFS to VSTS as well)

January 3, 2017 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

2016⁵⁷

December³

My TFSAlertsDSL project has moved to GitHub and become VSTSServiceHookDsl

December 21, 2016 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Transform tool for transferring TFS 2015.3 Release Templates to VSTS

December 20, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Deleting unwanted orphan XAML Build Controllers on a migrated VSTS instance

December 20, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

November⁵

Problem adding external AAD user to a directory backed VSTS instance

November 30, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

You can now manage complex ARM based environments in Azure DevTest Labs

November 29, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

There are now no excuses for not using Continuous Delivery from VSTS for Azure Web Apps

November 23, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

As announced at Connect() there is now a tool to fully migrate an on-premises TFS to VSTS

November 16, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Changes to LiveID/MSA and what I have done about it to get around the new domain limitations

November 9, 2016 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

October³

Can’t login to OneDrive desktop application on Windows 10

October 25, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My video about DevOps with VSTS has been published on Channel9

October 24, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Devils with Arms and Cats - the new name for DevOps?

October 2, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September⁴

My DevTest Labs video is up on Channel9

September 29, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Running Test Suites within a network Isolated Lab Management environment when using TFS vNext build and release tooling

September 27, 2016 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

If I add a custom field to a VSTS work item type what is it’s name?

September 23, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Typemock have released official VSTS build extension

September 12, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

August⁸

Fix for my Docker image create dates being 8 hours in the past

August 24, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

I am speaking at Microsoft UK TechDays Online event on Azure DevTest Labs

August 24, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why have I got a ‘.NETCore50’ and a ‘netcore50’ folder in my nuget package?

August 23, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences versioning related sets of NuGet packages within a VSTS build

August 16, 2016 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Tidy up those VSTS release pipelines with meta-tasks

August 12, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

New version of my generate release notes task–now with authentication options

August 11, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows 10 Anniversary (Build 1607) messed up my virtual NAT Switch – a fix

August 10, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Out with the Band in with the Garmin

August 5, 2016 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

July⁵

I’m on RadioTFS

July 15, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New Build Management VSTS tasks

July 13, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Life gets better in Visual Studio Code for PowerShell

July 8, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Gotcha’s when developing VSTS Build Extension

July 5, 2016 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Running TSLint within SonarQube on a TFS build

July 5, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

June⁴

Scroll bars in MTM Lab Center had me foxed – User too stupid error

June 24, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using Visual Studio Code to develop VSTS Build Tasks with PowerShell and Pester tests

June 21, 2016 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Updated Reprint - Migrating a TFS TFVC team project to a Git team project

June 20, 2016 · 15 min · Richard Fennell

Update guest post on migrating TFVC projects to Git

June 7, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

May⁷

Running WebTests as part of a VSTS VNext Release pipeline

May 30, 2016 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Easier management of DevTest VMs with Azure DevTest Labs

May 27, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Building bridges - getting DevOps working through Devs and IT Pros talking and learning from each other

May 25, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating work items to VSTS with custom fields using TFS Integration Platform

May 20, 2016 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

New version of my VSTS Generate Release Notes extension - now supports Builds and Release

May 19, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Putting a release process around my VSTS extension development

May 6, 2016 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading BlogEngine to 3.3

May 1, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

April²

Updates to my StyleCop task for VSTS/TFS 2015.2

April 26, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How to build a connection string from other parameters within MSDeploy packages to avoid repeating yourself in Release Management variables

April 18, 2016 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

March⁵

In place upgrade times from TFS 2013 to 2015

March 29, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Announcing release of my vNext build tasks as extensions in the VSTS/TFS Marketplace

March 22, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Happy 10th Birthday TFS

March 18, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New books on VSTS/TFS ALM DevOps

March 3, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A vNext build task and PowerShell script to generate release notes as part of TFS vNext build.

March 1, 2016 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

February¹⁰

Using MSDeploy to deploy to nested virtual applications in Azure Web Apps

February 25, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Running Pester PowerShell tests in the VSTS hosted build service

February 21, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A vNext build task to get artifacts from a different TFS server

February 18, 2016 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Running a SaaS service at scale

February 12, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Repost: What I learnt extending my VSTS Release Process to on-premises Lab Management Network Isolated Environments

February 12, 2016 · 9 min · Richard Fennell

Release Manager 2015 stalls at the ‘uploading components’ step and error log shows XML load errors

February 11, 2016 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

vNext Build editor filePath control always returns a path even if you did not set a value

February 8, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A VSTS vNext build task to run StyleCop

February 6, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A new vNext task to run StyleCop

February 4, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Follow up from my session at the Black Marble Tech Update 2016

February 2, 2016 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

January¹

Fixing cannot load dashboard issues on BlogEngine.NET using sub blog aggregation

January 4, 2016 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

2015⁷⁷

December⁵

Upgraded to BlogEngine.NET 3.2

December 31, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Running CodeUI tests on a VM with on remote desktop session open as part of a vNext build

December 23, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Live Writer becomes Open Live Writer

December 14, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Nuget restore fails to restore all the files on VSTS build if using project.json files

December 9, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

An out-the-box way to let local Hyper-V VMs see the Internet without using a DD-WRT router

December 1, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

November¹²

First experience of a Band 2

November 30, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Rangers guidance on migrating from RM Agent based releases to the new VSTS release system

November 24, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Ranger provided VSTS extensions

November 23, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Visual Studio Dev Essentials announced at Connect() with free Azure time each month

November 23, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading to SonarQube 5.2 in the land of Windows, MSBuild and TFS

November 19, 2015 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Finding it hard to make use of Azure for DevTest?

November 18, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Chrome extension to help with exploratory testing

November 18, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Hello to Visual Studio Team Services

November 18, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why you need to use vNext build tasks to share scripts between builds

November 17, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Versioning a VSIX package as part of the TFS vNext build (when the source is on GitHub)

November 10, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Why can’t I assign a VSO user as having ‘eligible MSDN’ using an AAD work account?

November 4, 2015 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

SonarQube 5.2 released

November 3, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

October²

My DDDNorth session on Technical Debt and SonarQube

October 25, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Patterns & Practices Architecture Track at Future Decoded

October 12, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September⁹

Release Manager - New deployment is not allowed as an another deployment is in progress

September 30, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Agenda for Black Marble’s annual Architecture Forum is firming up with a keynote from Martin Woodward

September 28, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Running nUnit and Jasmine.JS unit tests in TFS/VSO vNext build

September 23, 2015 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Powershell to help plot graphs of how long TFS upgrades take

September 17, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Session accepted for DDDNorth

September 14, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Is the Microsoft Band any good for Triathlon? Training Yes, racing No

September 14, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Running Typemock Isolator based tests in TFS vNext build

September 8, 2015 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Voting for DDD North Sessions is now open

September 7, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

WebDeploy, parameters.xml transforms and nLog settings

September 1, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

August⁹

An alternative to setting a build quality on a TFS vNext build

August 28, 2015 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot create an MSDeploy package for an Azure Web Job project as part of an automated build/

August 21, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using Release Management vNext templates when you don’t want to use DSC scripts – A better script

August 21, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Guest post at Microsoft - nUnit and Jasmine.JS unit tests in TFS/VSO vNext build

August 19, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDDNorth 2015 submissions are open

August 19, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF30063 Errors accessing a TFS 2015 server via the C# API after upgrade from 2013

August 13, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Running Microsoft Test Manager Test Suites as part of a vNext Release pipeline - Part 2

August 11, 2015 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Running Microsoft Test Manager Test Suites as part of a vNext Release pipeline

August 4, 2015 · 9 min · Richard Fennell

Few issues a few days on with my Windows 10 upgrade

August 2, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

July⁵

Upgrade from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 on my Lenovo W520

July 30, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Lessons learnt using simple PowerShell scripts with vNext Release Management

July 25, 2015 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Changes in VS/TFS licensing you really need to be aware of

July 21, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Stray white space in a ‘path to custom test adaptors’ will cause tests to fail on VSO vNext build

July 13, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot run Pester unit tests in Visual Studio but they work Ok from the command prompt

July 7, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June⁷

Overwriting your own parameters in Release Management can cause Powershell remoting problems

June 30, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at Leeds DevOps on the 21st of July

June 30, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using Release Management vNext templates when you don’t want to use DSC scripts

June 18, 2015 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for 500 internal errors when trying to trigger a Release Management pipeline from a build via the REST API

June 17, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Failing Ping tests on Application Insights

June 8, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows Media Center issues again

June 8, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Strange TFS build process template editing issue with Typemock

June 2, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

May⁴

Build and Ignite Event Sessions

May 28, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Free Black Marble Build and Ignite round up event in Yorkshire

May 7, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Generating MsTest wrappers for nUnit tests

May 7, 2015 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

MSDeploy Parameters.xml can only replace web.config values is a value is already set

May 1, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

April⁴

A Visual Studio Extension to create MSDeploy parameters.xml files

April 28, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

May is a busy time for events

April 23, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

After a few days living with a Microsoft Band…

April 5, 2015 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Running StyleCop from the command line and in a TFS 2015 vNext build

April 3, 2015 · 8 min · Richard Fennell

March²

All change - new SKUs for Visual Studio 2015

March 31, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cross platform build with TFS 2015 vNext Build

March 30, 2015 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

February⁶

We are hosting a free event on Visual Studio ALM on the 18th March

February 28, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My DSC session is up at TechDays Online 2015 On-Demand

February 17, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Build arguments are not returned for a build definition via the TFS API if they are left as default values

February 11, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Choices DDD South West or the Maker Faire?

February 9, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows 10 to be an option on the Raspberry PI 2

February 2, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for timeout exporting a SQL Azure DB using PowerShell or SQLPackage.exe

February 2, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

January¹²

Wrong package location when reusing a Release Management component

January 31, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for cannot run Windows 8.1 units test on a TFS 2013 Build Agent

January 31, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Living with a DD-WRT virtual router – three months and one day on (static DHCP leases)

January 31, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Living with a DD-WRT virtual router – three months on

January 29, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

When trying to load Office document from SharePoint I keep ending up in the Office Web Application

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at Techorama in May

January 27, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for ‘An unexpected error occurred. Close the windows and try again’ error adding Azure subscription to Visual Studio Release Management Tools

January 19, 2015 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

VSO gets ISO 27001 Certification and European Model Clauses

January 19, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Guest post on the Microsoft UK Developers Site on DSC and Release Management prior to Microsoft TechDays event

January 16, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at Microsoft Techdays on the 5th of February

January 10, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How to edit registered Release Management deployment agent IP addresses if a VMs IP address changes

January 7, 2015 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Failing to unblock downloaded ZIP files causes really strange errors

January 5, 2015 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2014¹⁰³

December⁵

vNext Release Management and Network Isolation

December 24, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Thoughts in vNext deployment in Release Management

December 24, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Setting a build version in a JAR file from TFS build

December 16, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Great book full of easily accessible tips to apply the concept of user stories to your team

December 4, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Can’t build SSDT projects in a TFS build

December 3, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

November¹⁰

Living with a DD-WRT virtual router – one month on

November 26, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Why am I getting ‘cannot access outlook.ost’ issues with Office 365 Lync?

November 24, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS announcements roundup

November 22, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Errors running tests via TCM as part of a Release Management pipeline

November 21, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Passed the Scaled Agile Framework assessment

November 21, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

‘Test run must be created with at least one test case’ error when using TCM

November 20, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Linking VSO to your Azure Subscription and Azure Active Directory

November 20, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Video card issues during install of Windows 8.1 causes very strange issues

November 19, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Issues repaving the Lenovo W520 with Windows 8.1 - again

November 15, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft Connect() event on the 12 and 13 November

November 10, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

October¹⁴

Cannot see a TFS drops location from inside a network isolated environment for Release Management

October 31, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Ordering rows that use the format 1.2.3 in a SQL query

October 30, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

VSO now available in a European Azure Data Center

October 28, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Having fun with my HDMIPI

October 26, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Visual Studio crashes when trying to add an item to a TFS build workflow

October 24, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting Release Management to fail a release when using a custom PowerShell component

October 20, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Ranger’s release DevOps Guidance for PowerShell DSC – perfectly timed for DDDNorth

October 18, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

“The handshake failed due to an unexpected packet format” with Release Management

October 17, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot build a SSRS project in TFS build due to expired license

October 15, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

‘Unable to reconnect to database: Timeout expired’ error when using SQLPackage.exe to deploy to Azure SQL

October 15, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft ALM event to Black Marble offices on the 26th of November

October 15, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences using a DD-WRT router with Hyper-V

October 7, 2014 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

Version stamping Windows 8 Store App manifests in TFS build

October 7, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Updated blog server to BlogEngine.NET 3.1

October 1, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September¹³

Swapping the the Word template in a VSTO project

September 22, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using MSDEPLOY from Release Management to deploy Azure web sites

September 18, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at PreEmptive’s event on Application Analytics in London on the 30th of September

September 18, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

“Communication with the deployer was lost during deployment” error with Release Management

September 18, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Moving our BlogEngine.NET server to Azure

September 16, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Publishing more than one Azure Cloud Service as part of a TFS build

September 10, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Getting the correct path and name for a project to pass as an MSBuild argument in TFS Build

September 10, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Deploying a Windows service with Release Management

September 9, 2014 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

PowerShell Summit Europe 2014

September 8, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Got around to updating my Nokia 820 to WP81 Update 1

September 3, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting ‘… is not a valid URL’ when using Git TF Clone

September 2, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Build failing post TFS 2013.3 upgrade with ‘Stack empty. (type InvalidOperationException)’

September 1, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDDNorth - agenda published - registration opens - and it is full

September 1, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

August⁹

My DDDnorth session has been accepted

August 31, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Listing all the PBIs that have no acceptance criteria

August 22, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Guest post on the Microsoft’s UK Developers site ‘Migrating a TFS TFVC based team project to a Git team project - a practical example’

August 18, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why is my TFS report not failing when I really think it should ?

August 15, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Where have my freeview tuners gone?

August 14, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Getting the Typemock TFS build activities to work on a TFS build agent running in interactive mode

August 2, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

AddBizTalkHiddenReferences error in TFS build when installing ProjectBuildComponent via a command line setup

August 2, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS 2013 wizard allows you to proceed to verification even if you have no SQL admin access

August 1, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

TFS Alert DSL documentation and downloads update

August 1, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

July¹⁰

Why is the Team Project drop down in Release Management empty?

July 28, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

I have just submitted a session for DDDNorth 2014

July 25, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Automating TFS Build Server deployment with SCVMM and PowerShell

July 18, 2014 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Common, Version=12.0.0.0’ when running a build on a new build agent on TFS 2013.2

July 17, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

MSBuild targeting a project in a solution folder

July 14, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Building Azure Cloud Applications on TFS

July 14, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Interesting license change for VS Online for ‘Stakeholder’ users

July 14, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A new badge for Channel9 Guy

July 7, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Post by one of our Testers about experiences with CodeUI and Windows Store Apps on the MSDN blog

July 3, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Re-awarded Microsoft MVP for the 7th Year

July 3, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June⁶

How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take – Part 2

June 27, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Submissions open for DDDNorth 2014

June 25, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

List of TFS Widgets

June 23, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cloning tfs repository with git-tf gives a “a server path must be absolute”

June 9, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

‘The Circle’ a good read

June 7, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Our TFS Lab Management Infrastructure

June 5, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

May⁶

What new in TFS from Teched 2014?

May 13, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New release of TFS Alerts DSL that allows work item state rollup

May 11, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Getting ‘The build directory of the test run either does not exist or access permission is required’ error when trying to run tests as part of the Release Management deployment

May 5, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Setting the LocalSQLServer connection string in web deploy

May 2, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Changing WCF bindings for MSDeploy packages when using Release Management

May 1, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Release Management components fail to deploy with a timeout if a variable is changed from standard to encrypted

May 1, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

April¹⁰

‘Windows Phone 8.1 Update’ update

April 28, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

The return of Visual Studio Setup projects - just because you can use them should you?

April 23, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

All upgraded to the Windows Phone 8.1 Update

April 15, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

The 2013 editions TFS books

April 15, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where has my picture password login sign in gone on Windows 8?

April 10, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Handling .pubxml files with TFS MSBuild arguments

April 10, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

What I learnt getting Release Management running with a network Isolated environment

April 8, 2014 · 7 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for ‘Web deployment task failed. (Unknown ProviderOption:DefiningProjectFullPath. Known ProviderOptions are:skipInvalid’ errors on TFS 2013.2 build

April 7, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading a VSTO project from VS 2008 to 2013

April 7, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

TFS 2013.2 has RTM’d

April 3, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

March⁵

Looking forward to speaking at Techorama in May

March 30, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting started with Release Management with network isolated Lab Management environments

March 29, 2014 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

A better way of using TFS Community Build Extensions StyleCop activity so it can use multiple rulesets

March 25, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating to SCVMM 2012 R2 in a TFS Lab Scenario

March 20, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Migrating a TFS TFVC based team project to a Git team project retaining as much source and work item history as possible

March 14, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

February⁸

Guest post on Microsoft ALM Blog on Lab Management

February 25, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD South west

February 25, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

High CPU utilisation on the data tier after a TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade

February 25, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

New ALM Rangers releases

February 18, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A walkthrough of getting Kerberos working with a Webpart inside SharePoint accessing a WCF service

February 6, 2014 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at Gravitas’s Tech Talk #3 -

February 6, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

GDR3 update for my Nokia 820

February 2, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upgraded older Build and Test Controllers to TFS 2013

February 1, 2014 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

January⁷

Testing new social plugin for BlogEngine

January 27, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take?

January 21, 2014 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading our TFS 2012 server to 2013

January 21, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Changing targeted .NET version for a project means web.config changes for EF

January 15, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for intermittent connection problem in lab management – restart the test controller

January 13, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Great support from BlogEngine.NET

January 7, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading from BlogEngine 2.8 to 2.9

January 6, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2013¹¹⁷

December⁴

Fix for Media Center library issue after Christmas tree lights incident

December 24, 2013 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Getting the domainuser when using versionControl.GetPermissions() in the TFS API

December 20, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A hair in the gate

December 12, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Notes from my session of the Visual Studio 2013 launch at NDC London

December 4, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

November¹⁰

The TFS 2013 Brian Keller demo VM is available

November 28, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for 0xc00d36b4 error when play MP4 videos on a Surface 2

November 27, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft Patterns & Practice publication ‘Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012’

November 22, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My guest post on the UK MSDN blog on ‘Using MSDN Azure benefits with TFS Lab Management’

November 20, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Announcing a CodePlex project that provides an IronPython DSL that can be used to define the handling of TFS Alerts

November 17, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fixing a WCF authentication schemes configured on the host (‘IntegratedWindowsAuthentication’) do not allow those configured on the binding ‘BasicHttpBinding’ (‘Anonymous’) error

November 13, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

When your TFS Lab test agents can’t start check the DNS

November 8, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Building VMs for use in TFS Lab Management environments

November 7, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More on TF215106: Access denied from the TFS API after upgrade from 2012 to 2013

November 6, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

‘Upgrading’ my Lenovo W520 to Windows 8.1

November 5, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

October⁹

Changes in Skydrive access on Windows 8.1

October 22, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF215106: Access denied from the TFS API after upgrade from 2012 to 2013

October 21, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A fix for power saving stopping my slow application installation

October 21, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Can I use the HP ALM Synchronizer with TF Service?

October 21, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading Windows 8 Media Center to 8.1

October 19, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Problems with Microsoft Fake Stubs and IronPython

October 15, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Links from my DDDNorth session ‘Automated Build Is Not The End Of The Story’

October 13, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Get rid of that that zombie build

October 10, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for - Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell’ on TFS 2010 Build Controller

October 10, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

September⁵

And the most ridiculous packaging award of the day goes to…

September 30, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

‘TF400499: You have not set your team field’ when trying to update Team Settings via the TFS API

September 16, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Moving from Ubuntu to Mint for my TEE demos

September 10, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where did that email go?

September 10, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Maybe I should have got the Nokia 925

September 1, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

August⁵

DDDNorth registration is now open

August 29, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Review of ‘Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012’ from Packt Publishing

August 28, 2013 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

A week with a Nokia 820

August 21, 2013 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

DDDNorth session voting is now open

August 15, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why is my TFS Lab build picking a really old build to deploy?

August 1, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

July¹¹

Fix for ‘Cannot install test agent on these machines because another environment is being created using the same machines’

July 29, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Making the drops location for a TFS build match the assembly version number

July 27, 2013 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

I can never remember the command line to add use to the TFS Service Accounts group

July 26, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

An attempted return for ‘Brian the build bunny’

July 23, 2013 · 7 min · Richard Fennell

Adding another VM to a running Lab Management environment

July 23, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences with a Kindle Paperwhite

July 20, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Washing your phone headset

July 14, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Minor issue on TFS 2012.3 upgrade if you are using host headers in bindings

July 11, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Setting SkyDrive as a trusted location in Office 2013

July 9, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Renewed as an MVP for Visual Studio ALM

July 1, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDDNorth session submission has opened

July 1, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June¹³

The best way to enjoy Build on the road.

June 28, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A day of TFS upgrades

June 27, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why can’t I find my build settings on a Git based project on TFS Service?

June 26, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Error adding a new widget to our BlogEngine.NET 2.8.0.0 server

June 25, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Using SYSPREP’d VM images as opposed to Templates in a new TFS 2012 Lab Management Environment

June 24, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Great experience moving my DotNetNuke site to PowerDNN

June 19, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using git tf to migrate code between TFS servers retaining history

June 16, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Beta release of the ALM Rangers Unit Test Generate VS Extension

June 16, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where did my parameters go when I edited that standard TFS report?

June 10, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Nice discussion on real world issues with software projects

June 7, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DHCP does not seem to work on Ubuntu for wireless based Hyper-V virtual switches

June 7, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Visual Studio 2013 announcement at TechEd USA

June 3, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Lenovo W520 problems with Wifi and Windows 8

June 3, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

May¹⁴

My session on TFS at the ‘Building Applications for the Future’

May 22, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Video on Nuget for C++ on Channel 9

May 22, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Webinar on PreEmptive Analytics tools on the 28th of May

May 20, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting Wix 3.6 MajorUpgrade working

May 17, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading DotNetNuke from V5 to V7

May 17, 2013 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Why do all my TFS labels appear to be associated with the same changeset?

May 16, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problem with CollectionView.CurrentChanged event not being fired in a WPF application

May 14, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Robert’s new arrival

May 14, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Setting up a TFS 2012 proxy in a cross domain system

May 10, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Interested in some tutor delivered training on TFS 2012 in the UK?

May 10, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How healthy is my TFS server?

May 8, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Getting going with the TFS Java API

May 4, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Accessing TFS work item tags via the API

May 3, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Workaround for TF900546: An unexpected error occurred while running the RunTests activity

May 1, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

April⁹

Follow the Yorkshire Global Windows Azure Event

April 27, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting SQL 2012 SSIS packages built on TFS 2012.2

April 24, 2013 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Upgraded to BlogEngine.NET 2.8

April 24, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Thanks for attending my webinar on lab management

April 23, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Lab Management webinar next week

April 18, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Our upgrade to TFS 2012.2 has worked OK

April 18, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Great event in Antwerp

April 18, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Error TF400129: Verifying that the team project collection has space for new system fields when upgrading TFS to 2012.2

April 11, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Can TFS work within your company’s processes?

April 2, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

March¹⁴

What machine name is being used when you compose an environment from running VMs in Lab Management?

March 28, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Lab Management with SCVMM 2012 and /labenvironmentplacementpolicy:aggressive

March 26, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Kerbal Space Program - Its educational and written in Mono too!

March 24, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF900548 when using my Typemock 2012 TFS custom build activity

March 23, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Black Marble is hosting the Yorkshire Chapter of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp on the 27th of April

March 21, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Installing a DB from a DACPAC using Powershell as part of TFS Lab Management deployment

March 14, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

You don’t half get strange errors when two servers have the same SID

March 12, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot run Microsoft Fakes based test if Typemock Isolator enabled

March 9, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS TPC Databases and SQL 2012 availability groups

March 9, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Recovering network isolated lab management environments if you have to recreate your SC-VMM server’s DB

March 8, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Fixing Lab Manager environments with brute force

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Creating VMs for lab management

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading our TFS 2012 Lab Management to use SC-VMM 2012 SP1

March 4, 2013 · 8 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Rangers ship more guidance

March 2, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

February¹¹

For those hard to mock moments - Microsoft Fakes or Typemock Isolator?

February 26, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

VS Anywhere–Have a look at distributed pair programming

February 25, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS Lab Management and Windows 8 and Server 2012

February 25, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Running an external command line tool as part of a Wix install

February 25, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New release of Typemock Isolator

February 25, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking on TEE at VISUG Conference in April

February 18, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Lost with all the ALM ranger projects? A Windows 8 App to here to help

February 13, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More in rights being stripped for the [team project]contributors group in TFS 2012 when QU1 applied and how to sort it.

February 7, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting Windows Phone 7.8 on my Lumia 800

February 4, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Visual Studio 2012.2 changes

February 4, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Tales from last weekend’s Imagine Cup North East Hackathon

February 4, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

January¹²

My TFS session at Black Marble’s Tech Update is already out of date, there were announcements last night

January 31, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fixing area permission issues when creating new teams in TFS 2012 after QU1 has been installed

January 28, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Leeds# Meetup 8 - Coding Dojo - Thursday 31 January

January 24, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My session today at Modern Jago

January 23, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF237111 errors when trying to add work items to the backlog after TFS 2012 QU1 is applied

January 18, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Incorrect IIS IP Bindings and TFS Server Url

January 15, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences applying TFS 2012 QU1 and it subsequent hotfix

January 14, 2013 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking on Windows 8 development

January 10, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Lost in nLog configuration files

January 8, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

EPG for Windows Media Center is fixed

January 4, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More fun with Windows 8 Media Center

January 3, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

2012¹³³

December³

Why can’t I create an environment using a running VM on my Lab Management system?

December 4, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Agile Yorkshire - December Lightening Talks

December 4, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading my Windows 7 Media Center to Windows 8

December 3, 2012 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

November¹³

TFS & Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is available

November 27, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Did I delete the right lab?

November 22, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

New book from Gojko Adzic ‘Impact Mapping’

November 21, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Black Marble at the 2012 Abbey Dash

November 19, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upcoming free events from Black Marble

November 14, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Upgraded to BlogEngine .NET 2.7

November 14, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why does ‘Send to > email link’ in SharePoint open Chrome on my PC?

November 13, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF900546, can’t run Windows 8 App Store unit tests in a TFS build

November 12, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

More thoughts on addressing TF900546 ‘Unable to load one or more of the requested types’ on TFS2012

November 12, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Change in the System.AssignedTo in TFS SOAP alerts with TFS 2012

November 9, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot run coded ui test on a TFS lab due to lack of rights to the drops folder

November 9, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using IISExpress for addresses other than localhost

November 6, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Reinstalling again…

November 2, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

October⁹

Team Foundation Service RTMs

October 31, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

403 and 413 errors when publishing to a local Nuget Server

October 31, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Nice introduction to the new features of VS2012

October 30, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problems re-publishing an Access site to SharePoint 2010

October 25, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Moving to an SSD on Lenovo W520

October 23, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

New video on unit testing in VS2012 and TFS

October 8, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More fun with creating TFS 2012 SC-VMM environments

October 5, 2012 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Getting a SQL LocalDB to create an ASPNETDB data base without aspnet_regsql

October 2, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller – Part 2

October 1, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

September⁵

TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller gives ‘No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:6910’

September 29, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Release of Typemock Isolator Basic edition

September 27, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences upgrading an MVC 1 application to MVC 3

September 5, 2012 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Update on my experiences with Lenovo W520 Drivers and Windows 8

September 3, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Its events time again

September 2, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

August¹²

Type ‘InArgument(mtbwa:BuildSettings)’ of property ‘BuildSettings’ errors in TFS 2012 RTM builds

August 30, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Two bits of good news – DDDNorth and Raspberry PI

August 28, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting Typemock Isolator running within a TFS 2012 build – part 2

August 24, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences upgrading our TFS2012RC to RTM

August 20, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Weekend trip to see family – 1 OS upgrade, 1 network printer installed and 3 machines de-virused

August 20, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A move to Windows 8 RTM (and VS2012 RTM), not too painful

August 16, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Moving podcast subscriptions with Zune

August 16, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Visual Studio 2012 RTM and the ALM Rangers SIM Ship best practice guidance

August 16, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF900546 error on a TFS 2012 build

August 9, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

At last my Nokia Lumia 800 gets its firmware upgrade to allow tethering

August 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using an internal Nuget server to manage the Typemock assembly references.

August 6, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Getting Typemock Isolator running within a TFS 2012 build

August 4, 2012 · 8 min · Richard Fennell

July¹¹

Audio problem on Windows 8 RP and Lenovo W520 with Lync 2013

July 31, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Two problems editing TFS2012 build workflows with the same solution

July 30, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

SUR-40 (what used to be a Surface) event at Leeds Sharp User group

July 30, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD10 registration open

July 30, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problems I had to address when setting up TFS 2012 Lab Environments with existing Hyper-V VMs

July 23, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Getting TFS 2012 Agents to communicate cross domain

July 20, 2012 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

Where did my custom Word templates go in 2013?

July 18, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

_atomic_fetch_sub_4 error running VS2012RC after Office 2013 Customer Preview is installed

July 17, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot access the ‘site setting’ on a reporting services instance using IE

July 13, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS build service cannot connect to a TFS 2012 server - seeing EventID 206 MessageQueue in error log

July 12, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Re-awarded as a MVP for Visual Studio ALM

July 1, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June¹⁵

Microsoft Cloud Day slides

June 26, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2012 Editions of TFS books are out

June 23, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why Typemock Isolator does not work on TFS 2012 Build and what you can do about it

June 23, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Next Leeds Sharp user group meeting is a coding kata session

June 21, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDDNorth session submission is open

June 18, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where did my Visual Studio 2010 link go from my Windows 8 desktop after I installed SSDT?

June 13, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at NEBytes on TFS2010

June 12, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFSPreview.com no longer needs an invite code

June 12, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot update local workspace in TFS 2012RC due to UAC

June 11, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Drivers needed on my Lenovo W520 with Windows 8 RP

June 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF215097 when running a build

June 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD North to be held at Bradford University on 13th October

June 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows 8 RP and my Lenovo W520

June 1, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Rangers sim-ship guidance with the VS11 RC

June 1, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

First meeting of the Leeds-Sharp user group

June 1, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

May¹⁶

Solution to “We couldn’t get your developer Licence for Windows 8 Consumer Preview” on Win8 Server beta

May 29, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

On the panel at Tech.Days: Visual Studio 11 Online Event

May 28, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Skydrive pushes me over my broadband usage

May 28, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD South West session on Unit testing in VS11

May 26, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Links for todays Typemock webinar

May 22, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upgrading our blog server from BlogEngine 2.5 to 2.6

May 21, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

New .NET usergroup in Leeds

May 17, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A bit busy with upcoming presentations

May 15, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Interested in Windows 8 Development?

May 13, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD10 1st September 2012

May 12, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Doing a webinar on Typemock Isolator and Sharepoint

May 10, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

You do that that PS2 keyboard on that old PC, not a USB one

May 10, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A fix for my failure to login to TFSpreview.com problems

May 10, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

TFS Build error, ‘Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list” when building XAML projects

May 9, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

More on using the VS11 fake library to fake out SharePoint

May 5, 2012 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Thoughts on my Channel9 post

May 5, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

April⁴

Thoughts on the new Skydrive

April 26, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

My video on using Team Explorer Everywhere is published on Channel9

April 24, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Back from holiday to find my DDD Southwest session has been accepted

April 16, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for problem faking two SPLists in a single unit test with Typemock Isolator has been released

April 2, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March¹³

Unit testing in VS11Beta and getting your tests to run on the new TFSPreview build service

March 27, 2012 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

How I try to keep up to date

March 26, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Keeping up to date

March 26, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Problems editing TFS11 build templates in VS11Beta

March 24, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

More thoughts on Typemock Isolator, Microsoft Fakes and Sharepoint

March 24, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Now that VS11 has a fake library do I still need Typemock Isolator to fake out SharePoint?

March 23, 2012 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Typemock Isolator Version 7

March 22, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Dropping build output to source control in TFS11

March 13, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Team Explorer Everywhere is now free

March 9, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Free webinar on Team Explorer Everywhere on the 19th of March

March 5, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Propose a session for DDD South West

March 2, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Two Team Explorers in TEE 11 Beta – twice as good?

March 1, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

February¹⁷

A bit of an edge case – Using Git-TFS to get the best (or worst?) of both worlds

February 29, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Rangers VS11 Beta Guidance

February 29, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Installing the TEE11 Beta as an upgrade to the plug-in in Eclipse

February 29, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

(Not) Using a Huawei E585 MIFI in the USA

February 27, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

More on new TFS 11 announcements

February 24, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS 11 and VS 11 Announcements

February 23, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Free webinar on Typemock Isolator V7

February 20, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Follow up to the North East Imagine Cup event

February 19, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

You don’t need to keep that old TFS server to support older versions of Visual Studio

February 16, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Thanks to everyone who came to my session at NEBytes last night

February 16, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking on the 15th Feb at the NE Bytes user group on “TFS for Everyone”

February 8, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Webinar on migration from VSS to TFS

February 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Filtering in MDX Calculated Members

February 4, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Enjoyed our SDL event last week?

February 3, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My guest post on Microsoft Visual Studio UK Team Blog published

February 2, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Update released to fix issue for TFS 2010 with SQL Enterprise Page Compression

February 2, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

January¹⁵

Have you tried switching it on and off again? Go on be aggressive!

January 31, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Links from our SDL event today

January 26, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New 1.3.0.0 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions for TFS 2010

January 25, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Black Marble launches new series of free online event

January 19, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF266026 error when a workflow will not start in a lab environment

January 18, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

‘Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode’ error upgraded to TFS build extensions 1.2.0.0

January 17, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Confused over the workflow to get an environment setup in TFS Lab Management?

January 17, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF260073 incompatible architecture error when trying to deploy an environment in Lab Manager

January 17, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting a ‘File Download’ dialog when trying to view TFS build report in Eclipse 3.7 with TEE

January 13, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Changed my phone to a Nokia

January 10, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problems finding XULRunner when running TEE11 CTP1 on Ubuntu and connecting to TFS Azure – a solution

January 8, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Jan 2012 Agile Yorkshire meeting – An Extreme Hour

January 6, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Radio TFS is back

January 3, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Radio TFS is back

January 3, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2011¹⁴⁹

December¹⁵

Moving Environments between TPCs when using TFS Lab Management

December 23, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Moving Environments between TPCs when using TFS Lab Management

December 23, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Community TFS Build Extensions – December 2011 released

December 23, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Don’t need to go into work at all

December 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows update now includes Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1, so expect a slow shutdown when it applies

December 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Debugging CodedUi Tests when launching test as a different user

December 21, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

DevOps are testers best placed to fill this role?

December 16, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

When you try to run a test in MTM you get a dialog ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’

December 16, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

New community build extensions documentation for the RoboCopy activity

December 15, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Updated SharePoint TFS Team Build Activity documentation

December 14, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

The battle of the Lenovo W520 and projectors

December 12, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Error 0x80070490 when trying to make any purchase on WP7 MarketPlace

December 10, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

When you forget to save a word document

December 9, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

My experiences moving to BlogEngine.NET

December 8, 2011 · 7 min · Richard Fennell

Black Marble’s blog server has changed platform to blogengine.net

December 7, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

November⁹

We need to teach children computer science

November 28, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Windows Phone 7 not synchronising Outlook

November 28, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Working with Hyper-V, VLAN tags and TFS 2010 Lab Management

November 23, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Typemock Isolator 6.2 released–now with TFS2010 build support

November 21, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Black Marble at the Abbey Dash in Leeds

November 21, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD

November 19, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Access denied when running a command with InvokeProcess in a TFS team build

November 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Black Marble events for the remainder of 2011 and into 2012

November 14, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD

November 14, 2011 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

October⁶

No error detail when using VMPrep

October 26, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at a Black Marble event on TFS on Azure

October 21, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using Nuget and TFS Build 2010

October 17, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

You can still sign up for DDDNorth tomorrow

October 7, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Documentation for the PowerShell activity in the TFS Community Build Extensions published

October 3, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Seeing loads of ‘cannot load load assemblies’ errors when editing a TFS 2010 build process workflow

October 3, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

September²³

Empty groups not being expanded in a combobox for a TFS work item

September 29, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Tempted by the new Kindle?

September 28, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Just posted VirtualPC activity documentation for TFS 2010 Community Build Extensions

September 27, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upcoming Black Marble event on Windows 8

September 27, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Syncing the build number and assembly version numbers in a TFS build when using the TFSVersion activity

September 26, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Video of my Webinar for Typemock is available

September 26, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New Release of the Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions

September 23, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Follow up to todays Typemock Webinar

September 21, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Stupid gotchas on a SQL 2008 Reporting Services are why I cannot see the Report Builder Button

September 21, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Another ALM/TFS focused blogger at Black Marble

September 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

What to do when your TFS build agent says it is ready, but the icon says it is not

September 17, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

TFS on Windows Azure preview announced at Build

September 14, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Bitlocker keeps asking for my recovery key after a change in my disk’s MBR

September 14, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

First try with Windows8 and it won’t boot (updated with notes on a solution)

September 14, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Why can’t I see my custom work item types in Team Explorer?

September 14, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Bradford the centre of all scientific advance (at least this week)

September 13, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

‘Expected to find an element’ error when running VS2010 Database unit tests

September 12, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Registration has opened for Black Marble’s Autumn Events 2011

September 7, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Update on using Typemock Isolator to allow webpart development without a Sharepoint server

September 6, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Doing a webinar on using Typemock Isolator with SharePoint Webparts

September 5, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

#DDDNorth registration has opened

September 5, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Verifying non–public methods have been called using Typemock Isolator in VB.Net

September 3, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

August¹⁴

You can vote now for sessions at #dddnorth

August 30, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problem setting an email alert for the TFS 2010 Power Tools backup

August 25, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

TF80070 when loading a team query in MS Project

August 24, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

One week left to submit a session for DDDNorth

August 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New release of TFS 2010 Power Tools

August 20, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows search not starting, making itself disabled on a reboot

August 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New TFS 2010 Community TFS Build Extension documentation – nUnit

August 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New TFS 2010 Community TFS Build Extension documentation – TFSVersion

August 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where has my mouse cursor done? Unable to record a video in Microsoft Test Manager

August 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More on using the StyleCop TFS 2010 Build Activity– handling settings files

August 16, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Do you find editing TFS Build Process Templates slow?

August 9, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Still time to propose sessions for DDDNorth

August 8, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where do I find the product key for Team Explorer Everywhere?

August 3, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Linking a TFS work item to a specific version of a document in SharePoint

August 2, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

July¹⁵

DDD in t’North

July 27, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More tips and tricks using my Typemock custom build activity with TFS 2010 build

July 26, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

More on running multiple TFS build controllers on a single VM

July 25, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

WP7 update fails when using laptop docking station, works when direct to laptop

July 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

WP7 update fails when using laptop docking station, works when direct to laptop

July 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Follow up to last nights session on mocking

July 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

The community - a route to free training

July 21, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Solution to ‘Missing requirement: Shared profile 1.0.0.1308118925849’ error when installation TEE SP1 on Eclipse Indigo

July 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Lenovo W520 – one week on

July 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Moving a VHD boot disk to Hyper-V

July 13, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at usergroups in Leeds and Southampton

July 11, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Workaround to connect to a TFS Lab Environment from outside a TMG firewall

July 8, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

TF30162: Task "BuildTask" from Group "Build" failed – when creating a team project

July 5, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

First Stable Release of Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions

July 5, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

I’ve been re-awarded as an ALM MVP for 2011

July 4, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

June⁹

Todays ISV event at Microsoft UK

June 27, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft UK Techdays video’s available

June 23, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at Microsoft UK next week

June 22, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

More from the ALM Rangers - Lab Management Guide

June 20, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS 2010 SP1 Cumulative Update 1

June 20, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Ranger’s Build Customization Guidance has shipped

June 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My first serious problem with my WP7 device

June 16, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Using VSTO to access TFS

June 3, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot connect to a Lab Management Environment using the MTM Environment Viewer

June 1, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

May¹⁵

How to fix extra Quickstart help menu items when installing Typemock Isolator

May 30, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Links to Videos of my Presentations

May 28, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Recording Silverlight actions on Microsoft Test Manager

May 27, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS vNext video from Teched up on Channel9

May 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Announcements at TechEd USA 2011 about TFS vNext and a Java API available now

May 16, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at Microsoft’s “Application Lifecycle Management for Independent Software Vendors”

May 13, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cross domain usage of TFS Integration Platform

May 6, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Our WP7 TFS Phone Explorer has won first prize in the Red Gate WP7 competition

May 5, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Free webcast of Architecture and Installation of TFS 2010

May 5, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Registration open for the “Connected Development” event on the 26th of May

May 5, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Creating a TFS Team Project Collection using Powershell

May 5, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Problems and workaround for the EMC Scrum for Team System Process Template

May 4, 2011 · 8 min · Richard Fennell

Problems and workaround for the EMC Scrum for Team System Process Template

May 4, 2011 · 8 min · Richard Fennell

My upcoming speaking engagements for Spring/Summer 2011

May 3, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

The slow slide to a paperless life

May 3, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

April¹³

How to use the TFS 2010 Community StyleCop Build Actvity (Addendum)

April 27, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Professional Foundation Server 2010

April 27, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Added a reading list to my blog

April 27, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How to use the TFS 2010 Community StyleCop Build Activity

April 22, 2011 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Now I have three TFS build instances on my VM

April 20, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Release of Black Marble’s WP7 TFS Phone Explorer

April 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF30162: Task "UploadStructure" from Group "Classification" failed

April 15, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF255115 Access Denied when starting TFSAgent Service

April 14, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

PC Rebuild time – remembering how to mount a bitlockered VHD

April 14, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at the BCS in Edinburgh on Agile Methods

April 14, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New home for my Techdays video on Lab Management from last year

April 10, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Doing a webcast for Microsoft next week ‘Lab Management and Automated Build’

April 6, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Why can’t I see my TFS reports?

April 4, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

March¹²

How to waste time with Lab Management – Missing the obvious that MTM points to a Team Project

March 30, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

How to expose IIS Express to external network connections and use a non-self signed certificate

March 22, 2011 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

A slow experience installing VS2010 SP1, but worth it in the end

March 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting the WP7 SDK onto a Windows Server 2008 TFS Build Agent

March 17, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD Scotland registration is now open

March 14, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking on VS 2010 ALM and Testing at events in Belfast and Dublin

March 10, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Install order guidance for VS2010 SP1

March 9, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fixed numerous issues with VS2008 using a /resetskippkgs

March 9, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A day of new releases and announcements in Visual Studio 2010 land

March 8, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

What to do with project dependencies?

March 4, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

The March 2011 version of the TFS Power Tools have been released

March 4, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Mocking out calls in unit tests to a TFS Server using Typemock

March 4, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

February⁸

Alpha release of TFS 2010 Build Extensions

February 28, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF30040 error when attaching a team project collection

February 19, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0’ provider is not registered on 64bit IIS7 server

February 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Another DDD opportunity

February 15, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My experiences getting started with writing custom adaptors for TFS Integration Platform

February 9, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Black Marble O7 game up on Windows Phone 7 Marketplace

February 9, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Renaming branches in TFS2010

February 4, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Somewhat nasty upgrade experience with Seesmic Desktop 2

February 2, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

January¹⁰

Problems connecting a Netgear WG111 USB Wifi Dongle to a Netgear DG834GT router

January 31, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Gojko Adzic is presenting at the next Agile Yorkshire meeting on acceptance tests

January 29, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Not made it to DDD9

January 29, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Follow up to yesterdays events on ‘enabling agile development with cool tools’

January 28, 2011 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Follow up to yesterdays events on ‘enabling agile development with cool tools’

January 28, 2011 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

At last my creature it lives – adventures with Lab Management and VLAN tags

January 21, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Preparing for my session next week on ‘enabling agile development with cool tools’

January 20, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF215097 error when using a custom build activity

January 6, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Kindle on the Phone 7

January 6, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD9 Sessions announced

January 4, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2010¹⁶⁶

December¹

While you are stuck at home due to snow why not vote for your favourite DDD9 session?

December 1, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

November⁸

Reminder about by web session on mocking Sharepoint with Typemock Isolator next week

November 25, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where can you learn more on Typemock after last night session at NEBytes?

November 18, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

0x80004004 when trying to upgrade Live Writer and Messenger

November 17, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Adding a Visual Basic 6 project to a TFS 2010 Build

November 16, 2010 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

You can’t edit a TFS 2010 build workflow template with just Team Explorer installed

November 12, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

[More] Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos

November 10, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

A week with a Windows Phone 7 – It just works!

November 9, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

November Agile Yorkshire meeting “William Hill Agile Case Study”

November 4, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

October¹⁷

Fun with WCF, SharePoint and Kerberos – well it looks like fun with hindsight

October 29, 2010 · 9 min · Richard Fennell

PDC 2010 thoughts - the next morning

October 29, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Common confusion I have seen with Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

October 25, 2010 · 7 min · Richard Fennell

First look at Postsharp AOP framework for .NET

October 25, 2010 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

First look at Postsharp AOP framework for .NET

October 25, 2010 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Typemock Isolator++ Video

October 25, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Video interviews from Software Craftsman 2010

October 22, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

I am speaking at NEBytes in November on Mocking with Typemock Isolator

October 19, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

I am speaking at NEBytes in November on Mocking with Typemock Isolator

October 19, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Should I buy a Kindle?

October 19, 2010 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Do you work with C++? Typemock Isolator++ webinar

October 19, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

All our futures behind us?

October 18, 2010 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

ALM Rangers ship SCOM Management pack for TFS2010

October 15, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Leeds Hack Day 2010 registration open

October 14, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at the Developer Group on Typemock Isolator on the 20th of October

October 7, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Thoughts on the Software Craftsmanship 2010

October 7, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Error –4002 on Access services on Sharepoint 2010

October 4, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

September¹⁴

DDD Dublin 2010 Sessions published

September 22, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD9 Announced

September 20, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Upcoming speaking engagements

September 16, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Upcoming speaking engagements

September 16, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

DDD Dublin voting as opened

September 14, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences running multiple instances of 2010 build service on a single VM

September 13, 2010 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Talking about mocking with Typemock a The of The Developers Group in October

September 13, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Stupid mistake over Javascript parameters

September 10, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problem faking multiple SPLists with Typemock Isolator in a single test

September 10, 2010 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

My Typemock video have been published

September 9, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

I am speaking at the VBug Autumn Conference

September 9, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Running Android on my HTC Diamond2

September 8, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Does anyone need a VS2010 Custom Build Activity for StyleCop?

September 3, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

New book on Refactoring with Visual Studio 2010 from Packt Publishing

September 3, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

August¹⁶

DDD Dublin call for speakers is open

August 31, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

What is an .xesc file?

August 27, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot run CodeUI tests in Lab Management – getting a ’Build directory of the test run is not specified or does not exist’

August 27, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Don’t hardcode that build option

August 26, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Detailed posted on using Access Services and Event Receivers

August 25, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

"Program too big to fit in memory" when installing a TFS 2010 Test Controller

August 23, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell