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I have an article posted on the Typemock Insider blog about the Typemock Academy I attended.

I recently did an in-place upgrade of a TFS 2010 RC to RTM box. All appeared to be going fine, all the verification in the upgrade wizard passed, but when I hit configure the first step failed. It said there was a missing dbo.sysobjects in the warehouse DB. I then had to resort the configuration DB as it was partly upgraded to try again as the DB was left partially upgraded. ...

I have a basic installation of TFS 2010 running on my Windows 7 laptop. This is really useful for testing build customisation and the like, a great new feature for 2010. Today I got around to trying to upgrade it from RC to RTM, but on the verification test I got the error [ Configuration Database ] TF255407: An error occurred while attempting to validate the configuration database. Error message: TF246064: No database could be found for the following host: TestCollection. The host has the following ID: eaf3c572-8657-4268-9852-3d73a799cdf5. To fix this problem, use the TFSConfig RemapDBs command-line tool and make sure that you specify the SQL Server instance that contains this database. ...

A PDF version of my slides for my session at the Typemock Academy on SharePoint testing with Typemock are available on the Black Marble site.

I am off to Oslo, for the first time, for the Typemock Academy this week. The event has managed to survive the disruption of the Icelandic volcano. A great chance to meet a pile of people I have only spoken toon the phone or via email in the past. Looking forward to it.

In my previous post I talked about using Isolator to mock Sharepoint to aid the speed of the development process. I find this a productive way of working, but it does not really help in the realm of automated testing. You need a way to programmatically explore a webpart, preferably outside of SharePoint to check its correctness. You could use the methods in my previous post and some form of automated web test, but this does mean you need to spin up a web server of some descriptions (IIS, Cassini etc. and deploy to it) An alternative is look at the Typmock addin Ivonna. This a creates a fake web server to load you page and tools to explore it. ...

I have found the most productive use of Typemock Isolator with SharePoint is to use it to reduce the time of the F5 cycle (build/deploy/use). If you are using a VPC of some type to do your SharePoint development, as many do, this process can easily take a couple minutes, and these minutes add up. In my experience webparts usually make fairly simple use of the underlying SharePoint site, by this I mean that they get some data from an SPList(s) or remote data source and render in some way. Or the reverse, they gather data that they drop to an SPLits(s) or remote data source. ...

I am on the way home from my whistle stop visit to the SharePoint Evolution conference. I must say congratulations to the organisers for putting on such a successful event given all the problems they have had related to speakers and air travel, well done. My slides, on Testing Webparts with Typemock, will appear on the conference site soon, but I thought it a good idea to link here to previous posts I have done on the subject. Imaging how surprised I was to realise to find I never wrote them! If you search my blog you will find links to older versions of today’s slide stack, but no coding samples. ...

I have just heard I will be speaking at Developer Day South West on June the 5th. My subject is Using the new Developer and Test features of VS 2010 to track down and fix bugs, this is basically the same session as I have at our TechDays fringe event yesterday. Hope to see you there

Thanks to everyone who turned up for Matt Nunn’s and my sessions in Leeds today. All seemed to go well and were well received. As my slide stack consisted of a a welcome screen and an agenda I don’t really see the point of posting them on web. If you want to see the end to end story of VS2010 ALM I would suggest looking at the video’s on Channel 9. ...