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My first serious problem with my WP7 device

My WP7 LG-E900 decided to do a factory reset last night. It locked while playing the XBox Live GEODefense game on a particular busy level I had just lost (so lots of graphic processing). The phone paused for a while then restarted and ran the first use wizard, in German. This is because it is one of the PDC units that seem, given the packaging, to have been sourced from Vodafone German. ...

Using VSTO to access TFS

Have you ever thought ‘I know that you get the Team ribbon in Excel to manage TFS work items, and I can use Excel to as a SQL/OLAP client to run reports from the TFS warehouse but I want to do more….’? Have you every considered using VSTO to create an ActionPane that uses the TFS .NET API? In this example I have created an ActionPane that allows you to select a Team Project Collection, a Team Project and then a build definition. Press the button and it lists the builds that have run of this type using the TFS .NET API. ...

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

Today we had a problem that we could not connect to VMs within a Lab Management environment from the Environment Viewer in MTM. We had composed the environment from VMs independently create and tested on the HyperV host. The plan in the end is to have this as a network isolated environment, but for now it is a private domain that exists on our main LAN. The first issue we had was that as this was a private domain the various hosts were not registered on our DNS, so we got a DNS lookup error for the VM host names. This is best fixed with network isolation, but for a quick fix we put some entries in a local hosts file on the PC we were using to resolve the name to IP addresses. ...

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

I recently noticed that I had a few too many ‘Typemock Isolator Quickstart’ help menu items in Visual Studio 2010 After a quick check with Typemock it seems this was a known issue with previous versions of Isolator, you should not see it on a new installation (6.0.10). If you do have the problem do as I was advised, run the VS macro, created by Travis Illig, to remove the extra items. ...

Links to Videos of my Presentations

I have added page to this blog that has links to videos of my presentations. Should make them easier to find them when I need to refer to them.

Recording Silverlight actions on Microsoft Test Manager

Whilst try to record some manual tests in MTM for a new Silverlight application I found I was not getting any actions recorded, just loads of “Fail to record the object corresponding to this action” warnings in the actions window. Turns out to fix this you have to do three things Install the Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 (MSDN Subscribers Only) – this adds Silverlight support to MTM (this I had already done) In your SIlverlLight application you need to reference the Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.SilverlightUIAutomationHelper.dll from the folder C:Program Files (x86)Common Filesmicrosoft sharedVSTT10.0UITestExtensionPackagesSilverlightUIAutomationHelper Finally if using IE9 you need to run IE in IE8 mode. To do this in IE9 press F12 and select the browser mode ...

TFS vNext video from Teched up on Channel9

Cameron Skinner’s TechEd session that goes into more depth on the announcements for TFS vNext is up on Channel 9. Just downloading it for to watch on the train to London this afternoon. I tried streaming live on the East Coast mainline before, their on train WiFi is just not up to it.

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

Watching the keynote of TechEd 2011 there were some interesting announcements on the vNext for TFS (the TFS section starts about 1:20 into the keynote). Storyboarding Assistant – A new product using PowerPoint as the core tools to gather requirements New web based dashboard to help manage requirement work items, with loads of drag and drop and pulling much of the functionality of the current Excel planning workbooks into the browser. A new web based taskboard (that was demo’d using a huge touch screen monitor) Giving the developer a task oriented means to say what work they are working on, and behind the scenes setting their workspace appropriately New tooling to allow users to provide feedback on the release in an MTM like style Also mentioned was code review tooling, intellitrace in production and much more… Have a look at the keynote (the video is available now) and breakout session video streams when they appear. Also there is more detail on Jason Zanders blog ...

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

In the 27th June I will be speaking on Lab Management at Microsoft’s “Application Lifecycle Management for Independent Software Vendors” event at TVP. For more details see the Microsoft event site

Cross domain usage of TFS Integration Platform

Whist trying to do a cross domain migration of some source between two TFS2010 servers, I got the less than helpful runtime exception System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: activeWorkspace at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Migration.Tfs2010VCAdapter.TfsUtil.CleanWorkspace(Workspace activeWorkspace) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Migration.Tfs2010VCAdapter.TfsVCMigrationProvider.ProcessChangeGroup(ChangeGroup group) On checking the _tfsintegrationservice_.log I found the more useful TFS::Authenticate : Caught exception : Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TeamFoundationServerUnauthorizedException: TF30063: You are not authorized to access tfsserver.otherdomain.com. —> System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. ...