Announcing the Alt.Net.UK 'in the North' Conference

I am please to be able to announce that there will be an Alt.net Open Space Conference in Bradford on the 17/18th April this year. I had mentioned my intension of organising such an event at the last London conference, but it has taken a bit longer than expected to get sorted due to problems with getting the venue. The event will be hosted by Black Marble at their office in Bradford, West Yorkshire, and there will be space for 50 attendees....

February 18, 2009 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Buzzword bingo in the cloud

At todays Azure event I heard a new word for my occasional buzz word posts. Marketechture - an architecture designed by marketing for use in Powerpoint

February 13, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

SQLBits IV registration is open

You can now register for SQLBits IV in Manchester on the 28th March, hurry if you want to attend as these free conferences do tend to full up quick

February 11, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

My session has been selected for SQLBits IV

Thanks to everyone who voted for my session ‘Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System’, it was successful in the selection process and so will be on the agenda at SQLBits IV on 28th March 2009 in Manchester Hope to see you there.

February 8, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Missing .NET framework installing a VSTO application

I have been getting the error “The required version of the .NET Framework is not installed on this computer.” (event id 4096 in Event log) when trying to install a VSTO application from both a ClickOnce deployment and a local copy. This is interesting as the .NET framework is installed (on my 64bit Windows 7 PC) and the VSTO application was developed on the self same machine (and works in Visual Studio 2008)....

February 7, 2009 · 1 min · Richard Fennell