Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 has shipped

Today the Visual Studio 2010 Team Suite Beta 1 and Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 became available to download for MSDN subscribers and will be available to the general public on Wednesday.

May 18, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

London Alt.Net Conference is now full

Wow, the Alt.Net conference in London in August certainly filled up fast. On Friday I went into a meeting before registration opened, and by the time I came out the first wave was full. I now see that the second wave of registration is also full. Unfortunately I can’t make this one, but I am sure it will be a success. I really like the format that is being tried, a bit for everyone....

May 18, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New bundle from Typemock

I have been blogging for a while now on using Tyepmock & Ivonna for various forms of testing, well you can bow buy both packages as a bundle and here is the blog/press viral marketing release….. Unit Testing ASP.NET? ASP.NET unit testing has never been this easy. Typemock is launching a new product for ASP.NET developers – the ASP.NET Bundle - and for the launch will be giving out FREE licenses to bloggers and their readers....

May 18, 2009 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Last nights Agile Yorkshire meeting on Exploratory Testing

I was unable to attend the last Agile Yorkshire meeting, shame it sounds like it was a good one. The slides are up and give a really nice overview of the theory behind exploratory testing, worth a look at http://www.agileyorkshire.org/2009-event-announcements/may13th-exploratorytesting/ExploratoryTesting.ppt

May 14, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Misleading error message adding a user on Windows 2008

Today I was setting up a new development VPC for SharePoint. When I tried to add a new user via the AD tools wizard I got the error “Windows cannot set the password for [new user], network path was not found” Forums suggest the issue is DNS resolution related, but for me it turned out to be the simple fact the password I was using did not meet the domains minimum requirements....

May 13, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Alt.Net UK Conference 2009

Good news, there will be an Alt.Net UK Conference in London over the first weekend of August. Bit of a different format this time: Alt.Net Beers _A social opportunity to discuss Alt.Net over a few beers. __Friday, July 31, 2009 from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM _82 Dean Street, London, W1D 3HA, United Kingdom Open Space Coding Day _A day of hands-on coding where the attendees choose the subjects. __Saturday, August 01, 2009 from 9:00 AM until 5:00 PM...

May 12, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

A day at the Architect Insight Conference

I was at the Architect Insight Conference yesterday, so the big question is do I better know the role of the architect in the development process – I have to say no. Don’t get me wrong the event was interesting, I especially enjoyed the interactive group discussion sessions, one of which I chaired if that is the right term. As I have said about other conference I tend to find I get more from the discussions with other delegates than the more tradition presentation sessions....

May 9, 2009 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Another speaking engagement – Vbug Newcastle on SharePoint Testing

Update 15 May – Date changed due to unexpected overseas trip I will be doing a session on Testing SharePoint using Typemock Isolator on the 3rd June 17th June in Newcastle. Check the Vbug site for more details.

May 9, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Virtual PC on Windows 7

You can run Virtual PC 2007 on Windows 7, but Windows 7 does include a new version of Virtual PC as part of the operating system, which is good. The problem I have, and as will many others, is though my 64Bit Acer 8210’s Intel process has hardware virtualization support, Acer for some bizarre reason chose to disable it in the BIOS; thought it was enabled in the 32bit 8200 series, and is enable in the later Travelmate equivalents....

May 9, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Next weeks Agile Yorkshire meeting

Don’t forget the next Agile Yorkshire meeting on the 13th of May about Exploratory testing. Usual time, usual place, usual free pint for everyone thanks to our sponsors.

May 6, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell