I have just completed the upgrade of this blog server to the new release 3.2 of BlogEngine.NET. I did a manual upgrade (as opposed to the automated built in upgrade) as I needed to make a few changes from the default settings. The process I used followed the upgrade process document Downloaded the latest release and unzip the folder Run the SQL upgrade script (in /setup/sqlserver folder), this adds some new DB constraints Created a IIS web site using the new release Copied in the sample web....

If you want to run CodeUI tests as part of a build you need to make sure the device running the test has access to the UI, for remote VMs this means having a logged in session open and the build/test agent running interactivally. Problem is what happens when you disconnect the session. UNless you manage it you will get the error Automation engine is unable to playback the test because it is not able to interact with the desktop....

My primary blog editor has been Microsoft Live Writer for years, but it has always been a pain to install via Windows Essentials (as I don’t want the rest of the product), also I was never able to find the right version when I rebuilt a PC. This was not helped by the fact there has been no development of the product for years, so I struggled to remember what year version I really needed (last one was 2012 by the way)....

We are currently working on updating a Windows 8 application to be a Windows 10 Universal application. This has caused a few problem on a TFS vNext automated build box. The revised solution builds fine of the developers box and fine on the build VM if opened in Visual Studio, but fails if built via the VSTS vNext build CI MSBuild process showing loads of references missing. Turns out the issue was due to Nuget versions....

Updated 10 Aug 2016 - Revised for Win10 anniversary build 1607 I have posted in the past about using a DD-WRT virtual router to bridge between local VMs on my development PC and the outside world With the recent changes in HyperV on Windows 10 and Server 2016 we have an alternative as discussed by Thomas Maurer in his post (pre Win10 anniversary build 1607) or this post (post Win10 anniversary build 1607)....