TFSPreview.com no longer needs an invite code

At TechEd USA 2012 in the keynote and the ALM session it was announced that you no longer need an invite code to access the Azure hosted TFSPreview.com, it is now open to all. There are no final details as yet over the pricing when it goes fully to production but they did say there will be some form of free offering going forward. We will have to wait for more details on that front....

June 12, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cannot update local workspace in TFS 2012RC due to UAC

Whilst preparing the demos for my [TFS 2012 ALM session on Wednesday (still places available of you are in the Yorkshire area)](http://www.blackmarble.co.uk/events.aspx?event=How to Plan your Application Lifecycle Implementation with TFS11), I got the following error whey trying to add a new solution of sample code to TFS Access to the path ‘C:ProgramDataMicrosoft Team Foundation Local Workspaces43519e4-72cf-4cd0-a711-f4bb8b817f30TYPHOON;432cfb95-26d6-4a68-af26-b102c950a90dproperties.tf1’ is denied. It seems that the ..4535… folder had been created when I was running VS2012 using ‘run as administrator’....

June 11, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Drivers needed on my Lenovo W520 with Windows 8 RP

I posted recently on running Win8 RP on my Lenovo W520, well a few days on it is still working fine. I have adopted by usual practice of installing as few hardware vendor drivers/tool as possible, as I tend to find these make matters worse most of the time. However, I as expected I could not only rely on just what came with Windows 8. On installing Windows the only device not discovered was the single device ‘Intel Chipset’, this needed the Intel Chipset Support driver I noticed today that when on my docking station my speakers did not work....

June 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF215097 when running a build

I have been working on one of our build boxes today restructuring our Surface solutions to make better of Nuget. This involved upgraded the Azure SDK on the build box to the new June release, which needed a reboot halfway through the process. After the reboot and tried a new build I got the error TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition SurfaceRetailApplication.Main CI: Could not load file or assembly ‘System....

June 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

DDD North to be held at Bradford University on 13th October

This years DDD North is to be held at Bradford University on 13th October, keep an eye open for the call for speakers

June 7, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell