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Background if you use Twitter in any web you will probably have noticed that they have switched off the 1.0 API, you have to use the 1.1 version which is stricter over OAUTH. This meant the Twitter feeds into our blog server stopped working on the 10th of June. The old call of http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=blackmarble did not work and just change 1 to 1.1 did not work. So I decided to pull down a different widget for BlogEngine....

An interesting change with Lab Management 2012 and SCVMM 2012 is that templates become a lot less useful. In the SCVMM 2008 versions you had a choice when you stored VMs in the SCVMM library. … You could store a fully configured VM or a generalised template. When you added the template to a new environment you could enter details such as the machine name, domain to join and product key etc....

I posted recently about my experiences in upgrading DotNetNuke 5 to 7, what fun that was! Well I have now had to do the move for real. I expected to follow the same process, but had problems. Turns out the key was to go 5 > 6 > 7. Once I did this the upgrade worked, turns out this is the recommended route. Why my previous trial worked I don’t know?...

Martin Hinshelwood did a recent post on moving source code between TFS servers using git tf. He mentioned that you could use the --deep option to get the whole changeset check-in history. Being fairly new to using Git, in anything other than the simplest scenarios, it took me a while to get the commands right. This is what I used in the end (using the Brian Keller VM for sample data) …...

With Visual Studio 2012 have you missed the automated unit test generation tools that were present in Visual Studio 2010? If you have then the ALM Rangers have produced the ‘Unit Test Generate VS Extension’. The first beta of this is now available on the VSGallery. Why not download it and try out so you can provide feedback to the team?