Microsoft have release Windows Phone 7.8 in the last few days. As usual the rollout appears to be phased, I think based on serial number of your phone. As with previous versions you can force the update, so jumping the phased rollout queue. The process is Put the phone in flight mode (so no data connection) Connect it to your PC running Zune, it will look to see if there is an OS update....
The Git support was not the only announcement for TFS at the ALM Summit last week. On Brian Harry’s blog you can see more on the new features either in the TFS/VS 2012.2 (Update 2) CTP or planned to appear in later CTPs. The list is long, but the ones that caught my eye beyond that of Git support are Microsoft Fakes moves from the Ultimate SKU to Premium, thus making it a ‘free’ option for many corporate developers as they already have that SKU Easier customisation of the Kanban board Tagging of workitems to allow flexible filtering Testing visibility in the web admin pages … and many other improvements....
I spent much of the weekend at the Imagine Cup North East Hackathon; for those of you who don’t know the Imagine Cup is Microsoft’s world wide student competition. This event was to help students in the North East of England to get there entries kick started before their regional final in a few weeks, which lead to the UK finals and for one team the worlds in Russia in July....
At the ALM Summit yesterday Brian Harry made some major TFS and Visual Studio announcements Git support for the hosted visualstudio.com, this allows you to choose if you want a centralised (existing TFS) source control repository or DVSC (using Git). There is also new tools with VS2012 to make using Git easier. Read more as to why Microsoft have made this addition to their offering in his blog. For those of you using on premises TFS you will have have to wait for the next major release of TFS, don’t expect to see this in a quarterly update....
[Updated 4 Fe 2013 See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/02/01/hotfixes-for-tfs-2012-update-1-tfs-2012-1.aspx for the latest on this ] One of the side effects of the problems we had with TFS 2012 QU1 was that when we created a new team within a team project contributors had no rights to the teams default Area. The workaround was that we had to add these rights manually, remembering to add these as you would expect is something you forget all the time, so it would be nice to fix the default....
If you are at a loose end next Thursday and in Leeds, why not check out the Coding Dojo at the Leeds Sharp user group. Unfortunately looks like I am on a client visit, but it does sound interesting
Thanks to everyone who came along to the Microsoft event today at Modern Jago. I hope you all found it useful. I got feedback from a few people that my tip on not trusting company WIFI when trying to do remote debugging of Windows RT devices was useful (or any other type of device for that matter). I have seen too many corporate level Wifi implementation, and a surprising number of home ASDL/Wifi routers, doing isolation between WiFi clients....
I have been battling my Crucial M4-mSATA 256Gb SDD for a while now. The drive seems OK most of the time, but if for any reason my PC crashes (i.e. a blue screen, which I have found is luckily rare on Windows8) the PC will not start-up giving a ‘HDD2 cannot be found’ error during POST. I had not had this problem for a few months, so though it was fixed, then BANG yesterday Windows crashed out the blue (I was writing a document in Word whilst listening to music, not exactly a huge load for Core i7) and I hit the start-up problem....
[Updated 4 Feb 2013 See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/02/01/hotfixes-for-tfs-2012-update-1-tfs-2012-1.aspx_ for the latest on this ]_ I posted earlier in the week about my experiences with the post TFS 2012 QU1 hotfix. When I posted I thought we had all our problems sorted, we did for new team projects, but it seems still had an issue for teams on our team projects that were created prior to the upgraded from RTM to QU1. As I said in the past post we got into this position due to trying to upgraded a TPC form RTM to QU1 by detaching from the 2012 RTM server and attaching to a 2012 QU1 server – this is not the recommended route and caused us to suffer the problem the KB2795609 patch addresses....
By default the TFS server uses http://localhost:8080/tfs as it’s Server URL, this is the URL used for internal communication, whereas the Notification Url is the one TFS tells client to communicate to it via. Both these Urls can be changed via the Team Foundation Server Console, but I find you do not usually need to change the Server Url, only the notification one. I hit a problem recently on a site where if you tried to edit the Team Project Collection Group Membership (via the web or TFS admin console) you got a dialog popping up saying ‘HTTP 400 error’....