When you try to run a test in MTM you get a dialog ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’

When trying to run a newly created manual test in MTM I got the error dialog ‘You cannot run the selected tests, Object reference not set to an instance of an object’. On checking the windows event log I saw Detailed Message: TF30065: An unhandled exception occurred. Web Request Details Url: http://……/TestManagement/v1.0/TestResultsEx.asmx So not really that much help in diagnosing the problem! Turns out the problem was I had been editing the test case work item type....

December 16, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

New community build extensions documentation for the RoboCopy activity

I have just published some documentation on theTFS2010 community build extensions RoboCopy activity

December 15, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Updated SharePoint TFS Team Build Activity documentation

I have just published updated documentation on the SharePoint build activity for the Community TFS build extensions.

December 14, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

The battle of the Lenovo W520 and projectors

My Lenovo W520 is the best laptop I have owned, but I have had one major issue with it, external projectors. The problem is it does not like to duplicate the laptop screen output to a projector, it works fine if extending the desktop, not duplicating. Every time I have tried to use it with a projector I either end up only showing on the projector and looking over my shoulder, or fiddling for ages until it suddenly works, usually at a low resolution, I don’t know what I did to get to this point so I don’t dare fiddle any more so use it anyway....

December 12, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Error 0x80070490 when trying to make any purchase on WP7 MarketPlace

Recently I have had a problem with my LG E900 Windows Phone 7 running Mango. Whenever I try to make a purchase on marketplace I was getting the error “There has been a problem completing your request. Try again later” and seeing the error code 0x80070490. A search on the web, asking around everyone I thought might have an answer and placing a question on Microsoft Answers got me no where....

December 10, 2011 · 3 min · Richard Fennell