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I have just posted new VirtualPC activity documentation for TFS 2010 Community Build Extensions. This has been a really nasty set of documentation to write as getting this activity running raises a lot of issues over COM security; thanks to Rik and Andy (our SharePoint specialists at Black Marble who are therefore used to COM problems!) who helped get to the bottom the issues. The best thing I can say about this VirtualPC activity (and I wrote much of it) is don’t use it....

In case you did not make it to the Microsoft Build Conference, Black Marble are running a pair of free events in Leeds on the 12th of October on Windows 8 and the other announcements made in Anaheim earlier this month. The morning session is focused on the IT pro side and the afternoon on development, so why not make a day of it? To get more information, and to register for these free events, have a look at http://www....

Updated 27 July 2013 - Here is a potential solution Update 27 Sep 2011 – this seemed such as good idea when I initially tried it out, but after more testing I see changing the build number part way through a build causes problems. The key one being that when you queue the next build it is issued the same revision number [the $(Rev:.r) in the BuildNumberFormat] as the just completed build, this will fail with the error...

The video of my recent webinar for Typemock on using Isolator for designing SharePoint webparts is up at http://www.typemock.com/sharepoint-web-parts You can also find a link to it from http://bit.ly/RFennellVideos, as well as links to all the other videos of my presentations I know of that are publically available.

Today I have posted a few more pages of the getting started documentation for the TFS 2010 community build extensions. This is an on-going task, I hope to get a few more written when I get a chance. I am writing the documentation in no obvious order, so let me know if any specific activity is in more need of some introductory level documentation than others.