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Registration is still open for tomorrow’s event so if your weekend has just become free why not come along?

I have just published documentation for the PowerShell activity in the TFS Community Build extensions. This opens up a whole range of possibilities for your build process. Off to look at using it for SharePoint deployment now…..

I have been following the process in the ALM Rangers build guide and in the Community Build Extensions to edit a build process workflow. Now I am sure this process was working until recently on my PC (but we all say that don’t we!), but of late I have found that when the .XAML workflow is loaded into Visual Studio I see loads of warning icons. If I check the list of imported namespaces many of them also have warning icons which if the icons are clicked they say the assembly cannot be found....

A common work item type (WIT) edit in TFS is to limit the list of names shown in a combo to the users assigned to the project i.e. the members of the Team Projects Contributors and Project Administrators groups. This is done by editing the WIT either via your favourite XML editor or the Process Template Editor (part of the power tools). You edit the Allowedvalues for the field you wish to limit such as the Assigned To as shown below,...

I am back on the should I buy a Kindle train of thought. Todays announcements are certainly interesting, I am not talking so much about the new Kindle Fire, but the new entry level version and the Touch. For me the tempting feature is still the E-Ink and battery life. The point is I have got used to reading on my phone, a Kindle might be easier on the eye, but it is more kit to carry, and I just don’t think I want to carry any more things....