Intellisense not working in Visual Studio 2008

Since I upgraded my VS2008 Beta2 to the RTM, the intellisense has not been working. I have seen a few posts about this, some suggesting you need to reset the configuration by running devenv.exe /safemode (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms241278(VS.80).aspx) but this did not work for me. So I had a poke about in Tools|Option and found that on the Text Editor|All Languages that the three checkboxes for Statement Completion where showing neither empty or checked but a fully coloured box - which usually means an unknown settings....

December 1, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD6 demo - better late than never

For those of you who attended my DDD6 session on Scrum you will remember that I had to cut my demo of eScrum short due to taking too many questions as I went along. So I have recorded what I intended to show as a screencast, enjoy.

November 28, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Virtual Server and MAC addresses

Today I had to do some work on an old VB6 system, a development environment I do not have on my Vista laptop. So I copied a Virtual PC image I had with most of the tools I needed and ran it on one of our Virtual Servers. As this VPC needed to run at the same time as the VPC I copied it from, I ran NewSid to change the SID and the PC names....

November 27, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

The day after DDD6

Got back from DDD6 late last night after our 5am start. After what seemed a short nights sleep I got up to do the Abbey Dash 10K in Leeds this morning with 6000 other runners, posting a 47 minute time, which I suppose is OK given the complete lack training of late due to conferences of late and I was hampered by tripping over some wire left in the road near the start and cutting my knee open!...

November 25, 2007 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Interesting change to TFS licensing

Just seen a post on Brian Harry’s blog that the license has been changed for TFS. You no longer need a CAL for all users who connect to the TFS server, a special case of users has been created, those who can create work items, but do little else. You now have an unlimited number of theses as standard. Why is this good? it means you can have anyone in a company connect to the TFS server to log bugs or change requests....

November 23, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell