Announcing Typemock TMockRunner Custom Activity for Team Build 2010

My Team Build 2010 custom activity for Typemock Isolator is now available at http://site.typemock.com/add-ons/. It is packaged as a zip which include all the source and a compiled assembly as well a document detailing usage and why the solution is constructed as it is. Hope you find it useful

March 25, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A fix to run Typemock Isolator inside the Page_Load for an ASPX page on VS2010/.NET4

I recently tried to use Typemock Isolator inside a ASP.NET page load event, to fake out some SharePoint SPLists e.g. protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { SPSite fakeSite = Isolate.Fake.Instance(); …….. } This has worked in the past but using VS2010RC and Isolator 6.0.1.0 it failed. If running VS2010 as Admin I got the error “Could not load file or assembly ‘TypeMock, Version=0.12900.25133.13153, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=37342d316331342d’ or one of its dependencies....

March 25, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Internet problems should be over

Our new Internet line has now been commissioned fully and hopefully any problems you may have had accessing my blog via the blackmarble.com or co.uk domains should be over.

March 25, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF254024 error when upgrading TFS 2010 Beta2 to RC

Whilst upgrading a single server instance of TFS 2010 Beta2 to the RC I got a TF254024 error. This occurred at the point in the upgrade wizard where it tries to list the databases available to upgrade. The reason for the error was the account I was logged in as (the domain administrator in my case) did not have rights on the SQL instance to see any TFS DBs. Once this was sorted, by granting owner rights to all the TFS DBs, all was OK....

March 24, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at NDC in Oslo in June

Updated 25th Mar when I found I have three sessions I have just heard that I had two three sessions accepted for the Norwegian Developers Conference. They are: Putting Some Testing Into Your TFS Build Making Manual Testing a Part of Your Development Process Developing Testable Web Parts for SharePoint. So off to Oslo, never been there before, looking forward to it already

March 22, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

VHD boot and c00002e2 Errors

For some reason that is beyond me now I did not setup my Lab Manager test system to be a VHD boot. So before installing the 2010 RC version I decided to P2V this system (on the same hardware) to make backups easier whilst testing. All seemed to go well I used IMAGEX to create a WIM of the disk Created an empty VHD Used IMAGEX to apply the WIM to the VHD Formatted the PC with a default Windows 7 install Added a VHD boot Windows Server 2008R2 to the PC, tested this all booted OK Replaced the test VHD with my own and rebooted …....

March 18, 2010 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

NEBytes last night

Hope everyone enjoyed my session VS2010 at NEBytes last night. I don’t now about you but I think that quick end to end demo of build, manual test and Intellitrace debug work very nicely. That was the first time I have done it as a single demo and I think it works better than three smaller ones. Truely shows the intergrated team store for VS2010 Anyway as the session was demo lead there are no slides to download, but if you have follow up questions post a comment on this post or email me

March 18, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at NEBytes tomorrow

Just a reminder I am speaking at NEBytes in Newcastle tomorrow on the new features of VS2010. I will be covering project management, architect, dev and test features so something there for everyone.

March 16, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot access TFS over HTTPS after upgrade from 2010 Beta 2 to RC

I upgraded our Beta2 2010 TFS last week, and after a quick local test all appeared to be working OK, so I rushed out the office like you do. However, whilst I have been out the office it was spotted that though it was working within the office using HTTP and the NETBIOSDomain server name (TFSSERVER) it could not be accessed outside the firewall or over HTTPS inside the office, so https://tfsserver....

March 15, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Post QCon thoughts

Interesting time at QCon yesterday, shame I was only there one day, I do like the events that are not limited to a single vendor or technology. The multi presenter session I was involved in on Microsoft interoperability seemed to go well, there is talk of repeating at other events or podcasting. It is a nice format if you can get the sub-sessions linking nicely, like themed grok talks. Due to chatting to people (but that why you go really isn’t it?...

March 13, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell