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Updated 25th March 2010 - All the source is now available at the Typemock Add-in site Updated 2nd July 2010 - Some usage notes posted Updated 26th July 2011 - More usage notes Updated 21st Nov 2011 - Typemock Isolator now has direct support for TFS 2010 Build, see usage notes I have previously posted on how you can run Typemock Isolator based tests within a VS2010 using the InvokeMethod activity. After this post Gian Maria Ricci, a fellow Team System MVP suggested it would be better to put this functionality in a custom code activity, and provided the basis of the solution. I have taken this base sample and worked it up to be a functional activity, and boy have I learnt a few things doing it. ...

Of late I keep getting ‘HTTP Error 403: The service you requested is restricted’ when I try to use my HTC Diamond2 mobile phone on Vodafone. I see the problem whether browsing the internet with mobile IE or Opera and also when using the phone as a 3G modem from my Windows 7 laptop. Seems to happen every other day of late. Interestingly, when I got the error shown above whilst trying to browse to Bing, a connection, on the same 3G link, from my PC to our Exchange server was working fine. ...

As I am sure you remember a few months ago Microsoft bought Teamprise and their Java clients for TFS. Well the team has got out their first Microsoft branded release, details can be found on Martin Woodward’s and Brian Harry’s blogs. This beta provides the first support for TFS2010 This release is very timely as I will be talking on the Java integration via the Eclipse plug-in at QCON next week and at the Architect Insight Conference at the end of the month. This “Eaglestone” release means I can hopefully do my demos against TFS2010. ...

A slight change to the usually arrangement this month at Agile Yorkshire. The speaker will Martin Fowler who will be talking on “Software Design in the 21st Century”, but the meeting will be on the 17th March (which is a week later than usual) and at a new venue The Adelphi in Leeds. This promises to be a very interesting session. I saw Martin speak at a JavaOne conference, a good few years ago now, and it is still one of the best presentations I have seen at any conference. He is an engaging speaker with much to say about our industry. ...

Some DDD event news Registration has opened for DDD Scotland There is a call for speakers at DDD South West There is a call for speakers at SQLBits If you have never been to a DDD style event before why not give it a try; they are free and you are sure to learn something. Unlike the DDD events in Reading these ones don’t fill up so fast that you cannot register because you stupidly went to make a up of tea just before they opened registration and it was full before you got back. ...

I have been doing some more work integrating Typemock and VS 2010 Team Build. I have just wasted a good few hours wondering why my test results are not being published. If I looked at the build log I saw my tests ran (and pass or failed as expected) and then were published without error. But when I checked the build summary it said there were no tests associated with the build, it reporting “No Test Results” ...

I find one of the most often overlooked new features of 2010 is the Symbol Server. This is a file share where the .PDB symbol files are stored for any given build (generated by a build server, see Jim Lamb’s post on the setup). If you look on the symbol server share you will see directories for each built assembly with a GUID named subdirectory containing the PDB files for each unique build. ...

This year’s DDD South West has been announced for the 5th of June in Bristol, for details see the dddsouthwest.com site

Week after next I will be speaking at QCon London with Simon Thurman of Microsoft on “The Interoperable Platform”. So what does that title mean? Well for me, for this session, it will be about how you can use the ALM features of TFS even when using Eclipse for Java development. So it will be a demo led session on the Teamprise tools for Eclipse and how they can allow you to build a unified development team that works in both .NET and Java. ...

When you use the InvokeProcess activity, as I did in my Typemock post, you really need to setup the logging. This is because by default nothing will be logged other than the command line invoked, not usually the best option. There are a couple of gotta’s here that initially caused me a problem and I suspect could cause a new user of the 2010 build process a problem too. The first is that you need to declare the variable names for the InvokeProcess to drop the output and errors into. This is done in the workflow designer putting the variable names in the relevant textboxes (there is no need to declare the variable names anywhere else) as shown below. Use any name you fancy, I used stdOutput and stdError. ...