New release of TFS 2010 Power Tools

The latest set of TFS 2010 power tools are out, well worth updating if you are using the March release, and if not using any version a definite install. There are major update across the board, summary details can be found on Brian Harry’s blog. With the main release note and download on Visual Studio Gallery

August 20, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Windows search not starting, making itself disabled on a reboot

Since I got my new laptop I have had a problem that the Windows Search services in Windows 7 keeps setting itself to be Disabled whenever I restart the the PC. I usually notice this when I try to do a search in Outlook and I have to press enter in the search box to start a search, it is not matching emails as soon as I start to type....

August 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New TFS 2010 Community TFS Build Extension documentation – nUnit

I have just posted new ‘how to use it 101’ documentation for the nUnit activity on the community extensions site.

August 19, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

New TFS 2010 Community TFS Build Extension documentation – TFSVersion

I have just posted new ‘how to use it 101’ documentation for the TFSVersion activity on the community extensions site.

August 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Where has my mouse cursor done? Unable to record a video in Microsoft Test Manager

MTM has the feature that you can use Expression Media Encoder 4 to record the test run as a video. To enable this feature, after you install MTM, you have to install the basic version of Expression Encoder, and a few patches see notes here for a list of files and the process. I recently did this on PC and tried to record a video. As soon as the recording process started the PC virtually stopped....

August 18, 2011 · 1 min · Richard Fennell