Speaking next week at Agile Yorkshire

I am speaking in Wednesday the 8th at Agile Yorkshire, on Crystal Clear and lessons learnt in Agile projects. The user group is meeting at the Victoria Hotel in Leeds as usual, and thanks to our sponsors there is a free drink for all attendees. Hope to see you there.

April 4, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Live Writer crashing when adding hyperlinks

For a while I have had a problem that when I tried to add a hyperlink via the toolbar in Live Writer I get a dialog that Live Writer has stopped working, it doesn’t exit, it just des not open the modal window for adding a hyperlink. It was irritating, but as I could edit the HTML source and put in the link by hand I could not be bothered to work out how to fix it....

April 3, 2009 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator

Updated 12 June 2009 - I have been having problems using this technique of Typemock with Sharepoint Workflows, the workflows keep unexpectedly idling as opposed to activating. If you suffer similar problem please check for later posts as to any solutions I find. Updated 6 April 2009 – Also see Testing SharePoint Workflows using TypeMock Isolator (Part 2) I have for a while been trying to test SharePoint workflows using TypeMock Isolator to mock out the SharePoint fixtures, I want to remove the dependency of having SharePoint on any test boxes where possible....

April 3, 2009 · 4 min · Richard Fennell

Book Review 'Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008'

A book arrived recently on my desk ‘Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008’ by Subashni. S and N Satheesh Kumar. On reading the book it provides a workmanlike coverage of the testing features of Visual Studio 2008 including some of the API options in the testing namespace, but I can’t see what it adds to the subject beyond what a user already has access to in the general introductions on MSDN/Help files....

April 2, 2009 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

SQLBits IV Slides

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at SQLBits IV. My slides on Visual Studio 2008 Database edition GDR release can be downloaded from the Black Marble website. Also a bit thank you to the organiser for putting on such as successful event, it is really good to not have to travel to the London or Reading for IT events.

March 31, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell