You can connect a Visual Studio 2008 IDE instance to a TFS 2010 server, as detailed in Martin Hinshelwood’s blog, but I cannot stress enough you have to have VS2008 SP1 installed. If you don’t, you get an error dialog when you enter the URL for the TFS server saying the URL contains invalid characters. This seems a simple rule, but as I found today it is easy to not realise your PC is not patched....
With all this coverage of the moon landings I am surprised that the other major news item of 40 years ago today has not been covered – the Fennell family moved house. I ask you just what are the priorities of the news media?
I downloaded and installed the Office 2010 technical preview today. All seemed to go OK (after I realised I could only do an in place upgrade from 32bit Office 2007 –> 32bit Office 2010), once the upgrade was done I could load Word and using our VSTO based document templates all seemed to work fine. However when I tried Outlook I got a problem. On the first loading it took a while, telling me it was doing something to 40K+ items, presumably checking the local OST file, but then seemed to load OK....
Thanks to everyone who turned up for my presentation on Typemock and Sharepoint in Glasgow last night. I have just upload my slides onto the Black Marble site. As the session was quite demo driven the slides don’t offer the best code samples. If you want to experiment yourselves I would suggest you look at my related posts on this blog and remember if you don’t have Typemock you can download trial versions of all the products I used from www....
On Wednesday the 15th this week I will be speaking at Scottish Developers on developer testing of SharePoint. This is a free event so please come along if you are interested and in the area. If you are not able to make it to Glasgow but are interested in the subject then why not check out Typemock’s free live webinars also on the 15th. .