Thanks to everyone who attended our SDL event today. Here are a few links to information we mentioned Microsoft SDK home page, full of downloads, links and training videos TFS Build extensions for CAT.NET, showing how to add SDL validation to a TFS build And there are selection of links to books on SDL on my blog’s reading list page
A new 1.3.0.0 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been published today. This contains some fixes and two new activities SPDisposeChecker – checks for SharePoint best practice CatNetScan – checks for common security issues
For many years Black Marble has run free events on a wide range of technologies. Originally we only ran these locally in Yorkshire, but as time progressed we have run them across the UK and Eire. They are a great way to help your staff whether technical or managerial get up to speed with new developments in our industry. For 2012 we have decided to try running some events online. The format for these events will be a short 30 minute interactive sessions where you will have the chance to see a short presentation and/or demonstration on a technology followed by a Q&A session with the presenter....
A common cause of the TF266026 error is because when the build agent tries to start (it is the build agent that runs the workflows in Lab Management) it cannot access the custom assemblies folder as defined for its parent build controller. Obviously this problem only occurs if you have set a custom assemblies path for parent build controller. The reason for the error is because the agent is running as the Lab Management service account, in my case tfs2010lab, as defined for the TPC in the TFS Administration Console....
Whilst upgrading a TFS 2010 build today to the new 1.2 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions we hit an issue. All seemed to go OK until the build tried to use the StyleCop activity, which failed with the error Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode is not a valid operation. Specify the ServiceNotification or DefaultDesktopOnly style to display a notification from a service application....