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I have been setting up a new Team Build server today. All our projects are being set to do code analysis (FXCop) after the build. For one project this worked on the developer PC but failed on the build machine. The CA0055 error means ‘file not found’ or ‘could not load’ the assembly to be analysed. Firstly I suspected there was a problem with path names being over 256 characters (both the assemblies and solutions names were long) which can be a problem MSBuild, but this was not the case. ...

Good session at the Yorkshire Extreme Programming Club last night. Chris Mills of Opera spoke on the mobile web. If this, or the general issue of standards in web development are of interest http://dev.opera.com is well worth a look.

When you create a build type for a team project on TFS you can enable testing using MSTest by saying ‘run any tests that are found in a given DLL’. I used this today to create a CI build for a project, I am looking at using Team Build as opposed to CruiseCrontrol as we have done historically. I hit a problem that the tests were running but the build was failing (or in Team build speak - partial succeeding i.e. compiling but not passed testing). On looking in the build log I saw the error was: ...

This Wednesday, the 11th, is the rescheduled XPClub meeting ‘Exploring Mobile Web Development’ with Chris Mills developer relations manager for Opera This is a free event and open to all, hope to see you there.

Interesting post from Ben Hall on the role of the tester, something I have posted on in the past. As Ben asks what are other people views?

I have got into reading books off my HTC smart phone using the Microsoft Reader. It means you always have a book with you (as well as a web browser, blog writer, phone etc…..) The problem has been getting books in a suitable format, yes I know that you can buy electronic books but there are so many out of copyright classic’s I have not read yet. You can download many from Project Gutenberg (and convert them to the right format using the add-in for Word) so why buy newer ones? ...

Thanks to everyone who attended my session on DataDude in Edinburgh yesterday. I hope you found it useful. For those based in Yorkshire I will be doing the same session for the local SQL user group on the 16th July. The slides I used yesterday were virtually identical to the ones I used at SQLBits II and can be found on our server. The only major change was a bit about yesterdays announcement of the GDR release that I wrote on the train up after watching the Channel9 video - but Gert’s blog is a better source information for this. ...

Typical I am giving a session on VS2008 DataDude tomorrow and Microsoft go and release a new version! See Gert Drapers blog for the full details or Channel 9 for a video which I will be watch in the train tomorrow I guess.

I am speaking at the Scottish SQL user group on Wednesday about VS2008 for DB Professionals. Hope to see you there.

There has been a good deal of discussion on Blogs and Forums as to if there is a need for a developer edition of Sharepoint (WSS3.0) so you can develop against it under Vista. Historically your options were: Run W2K3 on your client PC - licensing issues and maybe drivers if using a laptop Do all development in a VPC (or VMware) - is be a bit slow. Now some people argue the separation between client and server this causes is good - and it is a strong argument. However I want to get the best performance out of my development PC, so a WSS3.0 on Vista would be really useful to me. I know it won’t address all my development issues (I will still need a VPC from time to time) but it will do 90% of my day to day work and run at least 50% faster than a VPC. ...