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Mike Fourie has just announced that we’ve just shipped the second stable release of the Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions. Well worth a look if you need to customised your TFS 2010 build with any of the following AssemblyInfo BuildReport BuildWorkspace CodeMetric DateAndTime Email File GetBuildController GetBuildDefinition GetBuildServer GetWebAccessUrl Guid Hello HyperV IIS7 ILMerge InvokePowerShellCommand nUnit QueueBuild RoboCop SqlExecute StyleCop TFSVersion VB6 VirtualPC VSDevEnv Wmi WorkItemTracking Zip

Thanks to any one who attended my Typemock Isolator session today, hope you found it useful. In due course the video will be up on the Typemock site. But of you want to read more on using Isolator with SHarePoint have a look at Mocking Sharepoint for Design with Typemock Isolator Mocks SP2010 64bit Assemblies with Typemock Isolator

There is a good chance if you are using TFS that you will want to create some custom reports. You can write these in Reporting Services via BI Studio or Excel, but I wanted to use Report Builder, but could not see the Report Builder button on this Reporting Services menu The problem was multi-levelled First I had to give the user access to the Report Builder. This is done using folder property security....

Robert Hancock, another one of Black Marble’s ALM consultants, has started blog technical tips on this blog server. You can find Robert’s new blog here or the aggregate feed of all Black marble bloggers here

When using TFS2010 It is possible for a build agent to appear to be ready (or so the status label says) but the icon stays in the off state. This is usually due to a couple of broad categories of error, you can find out which by checking the Windows event log. The build agent cannot communicate with the controller In the event log you see something like Service ‘Default Agent - win7’ had an exception:...