So you want to demo VS2010 Lab Manager…….

I recently decided to build a demo system for VS2010 Lab Manager. This was for a number of reasons, not least I just wanted to have a proper play with it, but also that I was hoping to do a session on Microsoft Test and Lab Manager at DDD8 (as it turns out my session did not get voted for, maybe better luck for DDS, you can still vote for that conference’s sessions)....

January 27, 2010 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

The uptake of Agile and Alt.Net practices in places a bit away from the major development hotspots

Last week I got into an interesting discussion via email with Nieve a developer from Lille, France.The chat was on the uptake of Agile and Alt.Net practices in places a bit away from the major development hotspots. We both thought it could make an interesting post so, here goes, starting with Nieve’s first post….. Hello there,I’ve stumbled upon your blog while googling for the terms alt.net yorkshire.I’m a .NET developer working in Paris and living in the north of France (Lille area)....

January 25, 2010 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

Running Typemock Isolator based tests in TFS 2010 Team Build

Updated 2nd March 2010: Altered the sample arguments see this post for more details Updated 27th Jan 2010: Gian Maria Ricci, another Team System MVP has done some more work on this problems and posted on how to create a custom activity to address the problem. I have been looking at getting automated builds running on TFS2010 that make use of Typemock Isolator. This is not as straight forward as you would expect....

January 22, 2010 · 5 min · Richard Fennell

Time to exercise your prerogative again

The voting has opened for DDS, time to make your voice heard as what sessions you would like to see

January 21, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problems installing TFS Proxy

I recently saw an interesting problem install a TFS proxy (in my case it was on an existing TFS 2005 system using Window Server 2003 for the proxy host, but the problem could be seen on any version f TFS). The installation appeared to go fine, and when a Visual Studio client requested files, via the proxy, files appeared in the cache directory, however the client reported it was not using the proxy....

January 18, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell