We had an interesting issue of late building a Surface2 application solution within a TFS 2010 build system. The solution built fine in VS2010 on both my development PC and also using VS2010 on my TFS build box (both Windows 7 64bit PC), so I know I had all the right SDKs in place. However if I built it via TFS 2010 Team Build I got the error App.xaml (136): Unknown build error, ‘Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list…”...

I recently posted on how you could use the new fakes tools in VS11 to fake out SharePoint for testing purposes. I received comments on how I could make my Shim logic easier to read so though I would revisit the post. This led me down a bit of a complex trail, and to Pete Provost for pointing the way out! When I did the previous post I had used SP2007, this was because I was comparing using Microsoft Fakes with a similar sample I had written ages ago for Typemock Isolator....

After hearing my TEE video on Channel9 mentioned on Radio TFS I thought I should watch it through, I had only found time to do a quick look previously. This is all part of my on-going self review process, a form of self torture. It seems the issues I mentioned last time are still there, I still have too many err’s. The thing that stood out the most was I looked like a very shifty newsreader....

I have swapped to the new version of Microsoft Skydrive, replacing my old Mesh setup. It is a nice slick experience, allowing easy viewing of files on Skydrive from Windows and WP7. However, I do have couple of issues I used Mesh to sync photos from my Window 7 Media Center up to cloud storage as a backup, don’t want to loose all the family photos due to a disk failure....

I recently recorded a video on using Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere, this has today been published in the UK Techdays section of Channel 9. Hope you find it useful.

Got back from holiday today to find my DDDSW (26th May) session on unit testing in Visual Studio 11 has been accepted. I see the event is already full, but hope to see some of you there

A blogged a while ago about a problem faking multiple SPList with Typemock Isolator in a single test. With the release of Typemock Isolator 7.0.4.0 you no longer have to use the workaround I documented. You can now use the code if the originally planned, and it works as expected 1: public partial class TestPage : System.Web.UI.Page 2: { 3: public TestPage() 4: { 5: var fakeWeb = Isolate.Fake.Instance<SPWeb>(); 7: Isolate....

As part of the on-going effort in documentation I have recently published more documentation for the TFS build extension project activities AssemblyInfo CodeMetric (updated) and CodeMetricHistory File Twitter

One of my favourite new features in VS11 is that the unit testing is pluggable. You don’t have to use MSTest, you can use any test framework that an adaptor is available for (at the release of the beta this meant the list of framworks on Peter Provost’s blog, but I am sure this will grow). So what does this mean and how do you use it? Add some tests First it is worth noting that you no longer need to use a test project to contain your MSTest, you can if you want, but you don’t need to....

I have just added a page to the blog that lists some of the podcasts I try to listen to, in an attempt to keep up to date.