A hair in the gate

My Arc mouse started behaving strangely today, very jumpy. Felt like the cursor was being pulled left. Turns out the problem was a tiny hair caught in the led sensor slot You could see there was a problem as the led was flashing a lot, when it is normally solidly on if turn over the mouse you look into the slot. Once I got it out all was fine again

December 12, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Notes from my session of the Visual Studio 2013 launch at NDC London

Thanks to anyone who came to my session ‘TFS is not just for Visual Studio users’ at the Visual Studio 2013 at NDC London yesterday. Hope you found it useful and are now thinking of TFS as a tool for heterogeneous teams, not just developers using Visual Studio. As I discussed there are many options: Developers can work within their IDEs Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 Any IDE based on Eclipse...

December 4, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

The TFS 2013 Brian Keller demo VM is available

The TFS 2013 Brian Keller demo VM is available at http://aka.ms/vs13almvm

November 28, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Fix for 0xc00d36b4 error when play MP4 videos on a Surface 2

Whilst in the USA last week I bought a Surface 2 tablet. Upon boot it ran around 20 updates, as you expect, but unfortunately one of these seemed to remove its ability to play MP4 videos, giving a 0xc00d36b4 error whenever you try. A bit of a pain as one of the main reasons I wanted a tablet was for watching training videos and PluralSight on the move. After a fiddling and hunting on the web I found I was not alone, so I added my voice to the thread, and eventually an answer appeared....

November 27, 2013 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft Patterns & Practice publication ‘Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012’

Are you interested in building your own release pipeline using only the tools within TFS 2012 (or 2013)? If so why not have a look at the Microsoft Patterns & Practice publication Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012 it provides great background and a full work through via its hands-on-lab.

November 22, 2013 · 1 min · Richard Fennell