In my post on using TFS WebParts in Sharepoint I provided a proof of concept set of source to allow work items to be viewed and edited within 32bit SharePoint 2007. However I hit a problem that our live SharePoint is running 64bit and the TFS API is only available for 32bit, so the WebParts could not be loaded. To get round this problem I have built a version of the WebParts that move all the 32bit TFS API calls into a separate web service....
The next meeting of the extreme programming club is going to be held on the Thursday the 10th of January 2008 at the Victoria Hotel, at 7.00pm, Leeds. I believe the session is on CRAP (Change Risk Analyzer and Predictor) code metrics but this still has to be confirmed. This is your chance to discuss the future for the user group as I mentioned in my previous post
I have just had pointed out to me there is a great video about Google’s use of Scrum. It is a presentation done by Jeff Sutherland one of the founders of Scrum. Take a look it is well worth it.
Times are a’changing for the Yorkshire Extreme Programming and Agile Methods Club, our local user group. There are plans to put the organisation on a more formal structure including a organising committee with the key aim to extend the groups appeal. In the past it has really been driven by the good works of the staff of Erudine, thanks to them for all the work thus far. To facilitate these changes a new organiser Daniel Drozdzewski from Eurdine has put up a survey to find out what people want and is keen to hear ideas via the forum as he says we “want to bring more interesting speakers and topics, make it more organised and appealing to wider audience....
If you try to install the Team Foundation 2008 SharePoint extensions on a 64bit farm you get a ‘SharePoint must be installed’ error; I guess the installer is looking in the wrong directory for something to confirm SharePoint is there. However, it seems the MSI is only installing some features that are not 32/64bit specific. So you can try a manual install of these features. The notes on http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa718901.aspx give a basic guide, but these were written for the previous SharePoint so you have to alter a few paths, mostly 6....