But it works on my PC!

(Not) Using a Huawei E585 MIFI in the USA

I have an unlocked Hauwei E585 MIFI that I use around europe, avoiding roaming charges for my UK mobile contract. I buy a local pay as you go SIM for the appropriate country and off I go. I thought I would try the same here in the USA, where I am for the MVP Summit. I bought a T-Mobile data SIM, but it did not work so well. Basically the issue is one of aerials it seems. The E585 does not have the aerials it needs to connect for data in the USA, best it can do is a 2G connection, and even this seems to have issues, as mentioned in this post, that you need a phone SIM and not a data SIM. The bottom line seems to be the E585 is 2100MHz/900MHz UMTS only, AT&T are 850Mhz UMTS, T-Mobile will work on EDGE (2G) only. Verizon is CDMA. So it just just not going to work. ...

More on new TFS 11 announcements

There is a good discussion of the new TFS 11 announcements in the new Radio TFS podcast

TFS 11 and VS 11 Announcements

Microsoft have made a few announcements today On Brian Harry’s Blog In the TFS 11 range there will be a new download of TFS, called Team Foundation Server Express, that includes core developer features: Source Code Control Work Item Tracking Build Automation Agile Taskboard and is free for 5 users (you buy CALs to add more) Visual Studio Express will support TFS On Jason Zander’s Blog A sneak peak of details of the upcoming VS11 and TFS 11 beta For more details read the full posts I have linked to, and look out for the beta that will out on the 29th ...

Free webinar on Typemock Isolator V7

Next Wednesday (the 22nd of February) Typemock are running a free webinar ‘Isolator V7 Preview: A New Perspective on Unit Testing’. It will be showcasing Immediate feedback of newly introduced bugs with a new autorunner. Pinpoint identification of the bug’s location with the failed-test analyzer. Visual coverage of which part of your code is covered Powerful mocking, guaranteeing that you can write tests for any code, whether new code or legacy code Industry integration with major development tools All attendees get a free beta license for the new V7 product. ...

Follow up to the North East Imagine Cup event

Steve did a nice post on the fun we had at the event for Universities and Colleges in the North East of England to help them to develop their ideas for their Imagine Cup entries. I won’t bother to just repeat what he wrote, other than it was very nice to see students so engaged with our industry. I hope some of the attendees will be able to make it to other community events. ...

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

I have recently spoken to a number of people who were under the impression that older versions of Visual Studio could not connect to TFS2010. This is not the case. So for example you do not need to keep a TFS2005 running for your VS2005 clients. Why you might ask does this question even come up? VS2010 can build any .NET 2.0 –> 4.0 project so why not upgrade all your projects to VS2010? The answer is that products such as Biztalk and SQL Business Intelligence use older versions of the Visual Studio Shell e.g. so for SQL 2008 BI you are using in effect VS/Team Explorer 2008. Though it must be said this issue is getting better currently a BI developer still ends up having to use VS 2008 (until SSDT arrives with SQL 2012) ...

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

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at NEBytes last night, sorry I had to rush away. As my session was demo based I don’t have much in the way of slides to upload, but if you want to find out more have a look at my guest blog post on the UK Visual Studio blog on ‘TFS for Everyone’. Also keep an eye on the [Black Marble site for upcoming free webinar](http://www.blackmarble.com/events.aspx?event=Visual Studio Team Foundation for Everyone (Online)) sessions on the same subject ...

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

I will be speaking at the NE Bytes user group next Wednesday (the 15th of Feb) on ‘TFS for Everyone’. This a session based on the guest blog post on the UK Visual Studio blog I did on how TFS is not just for .NET developers. It can be used from a whole range of development platforms and operating systems. I will be including demos using Eclipse and Ubuntu. Hope to see you there. ...

Webinar on migration from VSS to TFS

I will be giving a free webinar presentation on the morning of Monday the 20th February on ‘Why migrate from Visual SourceSafe to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server’. [To register for this event please check out the Black Marble site](http://blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=Why migrate from Visual SourceSafe to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (Online))