The next XPClub meeting is a double bill: Code Quality and Scala + Lift. and is being held at the usual venue the Victoria Hotel Leeds. This is a free event open to all. As usual drinks and snacks thanks to the club sponsors are free, also there will be a draw for one free personal license for any of the products by JetBrains - the new club sponsor.
Today I got round to upgrading our TFS 2008 (dual server setup) with Team Server 2008 SP1. I tried it first on my demo VPC I use for presentations (reminder I am at VBug Coventry at the end of the talking about TFS, a free event open to all). Anyway, this update went fine and did not take too long, 5 or 10 minutes. On the main system all seemed to go OK, but it did take around 45 minutes....
I have had a nightmare getting this going. Adding the ModalPopupExtender to a form is easy, you drop it on and tell it the two required controls parameters PopupControlID=“MyModalPanel” TargetControlID=“ButtonToLoadIt” And it just works fine, but is triggered by a client side click of the Target Control. If you want to do some server side code behind first you are meant to set the TargetControlID to a fake control that is visible on form e....
I am speaking at VBug Coventry on the 24th of September about Visual Studio Team System. For details have a look at the [VBug events](Elmbank Training, Juniper Room (Ground Floor), Mill Lane, Coventry, CV1 2LQ, GB) site, look forward to seeing you there.
For those who have not seen it eScrum 1.1 is now available. This basically a update for the installer so it works on VS2008 so you don’t have to go through all the manual fiddling you had to in the past. So if you want a nice simple agile team project process, with a nice web site to give progress visibility, give it a look.