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Speaker registration for DDD South West has opened, problem is the event is the same weekend as the Maker Faire in Newcastle, don’t think I can do both. Both are great options though, good to have choices

Seem Windows 10 will be an option on the new Raspberry PI 2, that provides some more nice IoT options. It will be interesting to see which tools Microsoft look to target onto this board, I guess remote development from a PC as per their Galileo board. But there might be enough power for a bit more, we shall see

I have been trying to export a SQL Azure DB as a .BACPAC using the command line “C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server120DACbinSqlPackage.exe” /action:Export /sourceservername:myserver.database.windows.net /sourcedatabasename:websitecontentdb /sourceuser:sa@myserver /sourcepassword: /targetfile:db.bacpac The problem is the command times out after around an hour, at the ‘Extracting schema from database’ stage. I got exactly the same issue if I use PowerShell as discussed in Sandrino Di Mattia’s post. The issue is the Azure service tier level I am running the SQL DB on....

Whilst setting up a new agent based deployment pipeline in Release Management I decided I to reuse an existing component as it already had the correct package location set and correct transforms for the MSDeploy package. Basically this pipeline was a new copy of an existing website with different branding (css file etc.), but the same configuration options. I had just expected this work, but I kept getting ‘file not found’ errors when MSDeploy was run....

I recently hit a problem that on one of our TFS 2013 build agents we could not run Windows 8.1 unit tests. Now as we know the build agent needs some care and attention to build Windows 8.1 at all, but we had followed this process. However, we still saw the issue that the project compiled but the tests failed with the error ‘Unit tests for Windows Store apps cannot be run with Limited User Account disabled....