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Thanks to everyone one who attended my session at the Leeds SQL User group on Visual Studio Database Edition and to UPCO for hosting the event. The slide stack is available on the Black Marble web site

The Alt.net summer conference is now full after about 24 hours and that is with a larger capacity venue than the last one. Told it would be fast

Registration has opened for the Alt.UK Summer conference. If the first UK Alt.net conference event is anything to go by it will fill up fast, so don’t hang around if you are interested

I was trying to publish a .NET 3.5 WCF service to a network share e.g. \\myserversharefolder\_to\_holdservice and got the error “The specified file could not be encrypted” for all the files. I changed to a publish to the local disk it published fine, so what caused that? As part of some security impact modelling I have been doing development with my local source directories encrypted using standard Vista security (FYI does not seem to cause any significant performance impact) ...

This months meeting of the XPClub is on Wednesday. It is a general group chat about refactoring, branching and merging. This is a free event, usually with a few free beers, at the usual time & location, 7pm at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds, so hope to see you there

I have posted in the past about my efforts to write a user facing bug tracking interface for TFS to integrate with our SharePoint based customer portal. I have had some mixed success, but the end point is that I am just not happy with what I have written. Historically we have used our own home grown call tracking system (started as an Access DB, went via VB6 to ASP then ASP.NET, now is web service based) which our clients know (and love?). This give a far richer audit trail for the actions performed on a support call than is possible with a work item in TFS. In the end this simple fact is what has forced me to conclude that TFS work items are not the thing to expose to end user/help desk staff for bug tracking. ...

It really good to see so many submissions for the DDD7, and many new names, always a good sign of a the community working well. I just got round to putting one in myself on integrating testing into MSBuild. There is still time for more though. So have a think and put in a session proposal - trust me it is great fun.

Found out last night that I have just been made an MVP for Team System, is that cool or what!

Martin Woodward posted a few weeks ago about his build bunny. Now this is something I had tried a while ago for DDD4, but hit the same problem Martin had that the old Nabaztag API was too slow and messages could take hours to arrive, making it useless in the real world. Inspired by Martin and the new faster API I have been working on a new Team Build status monitor for the office. ...

For those who are interested, I am speaking on Visual Studio for Database Professionals at the Leeds SQL user group on the 16th July. This is a free event, for more details see the event web site.