Black Marble events for the remainder of 2011 and into 2012

Whilst I have been on holiday Black Marble have announced some new events and this time they are not just in the UK, we have a couple in our new Dublin office location. The programme up to new year is: 17 Nov 2011 (Holiday Inn Leeds/Bradford) Am - [Delivering High Impact WebSites with SharePoint](http://www.blackmarble.com/events.aspx?event=Delivering High Impact WebSites with SharePoint) SharePoint 2010 creates a dynamic and striking internet experience for your users....

November 14, 2011 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD

[Update: Also so More experiences upgrading my Media Center to receive Freeview HD] I have used a Windows Media Center as my only means to watch TV for about 5 years; upgrading over the years from XP to Vista and onto Windows 7. ![Picture of Windows Media Center](http://res1.windows.microsoft.com/resbox/en/Windows 7/main/9b3f877b-eaad-494e-a4ab-938576edf074_60.jpg “Picture of Windows Media Center”) I am a completely hooked on the ease of use, especially if you just want a means to watch and record Freeview (the UK free to air terrestrial service)....

November 14, 2011 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

No error detail when using VMPrep

When using VMPrep to setup a VM for use in a Lab Management system I got the error cross at the bottom of the dialog Not too much help, usually there is a link to the log file or a message. If you look in the log file in c:user[name]AppdataRoamingLMInstaller.txt you see that the path to the Patches folder is invalid. This is fixed by editing the VMPrepToolVMPrepToolLibraryApplications.XML file and correcting the path (which I had made a typo in)

October 26, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at a Black Marble event on TFS on Azure

I will be speaking at a [Black Marble event on the 30th November on the new TFS vNext announcements for TFS on Azure](http://www.blackmarble.com/events.aspx?event=TFS for the small team – hosted in the cloud). Though this event is target as hosted TFS, I will be doing demos of the new web based UI for agile project management in TFS that is common across all VNext versions. Hope to see you there

October 21, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Using Nuget and TFS Build 2010

At one of our recent events I was asked if I had any experience using Nuget within a TFS 2010 build. At the time I had not, but I thought it worth a look. For those of you who don’t know Nuget is a package manager that provides a developer with a way to manage assembly references in a project for assemblies that are not within their solution. It is most commonly used to manage external commonly used assemblies such a nHibernate or JQuery but you can also use it manage your own internal shared libraries....

October 17, 2011 · 4 min · Richard Fennell