Richard Fennell

TF53010 error and no TFS Warehouse updates after a SQL migrate

2009-10-21T10:53:14Z

We recently moved our central SQL server to new SAN hardware and at the same time upgraded from SQL2005 to SQL2008. Once this was done we noticed that our TFS Reports were running against old Warehouse data. Checking the TFS Application Tier event log we saw: TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team Foundation component or extension: Date (UTC): 21/10/2009 10:27:25 Machine: TFSAT Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/287244640/Root/Warehouse-2-129005451884971104 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation...(read more)

A video on Access 2010

2009-10-21T07:04:02Z

I recently posted on my experiences of Access 2010 , well if you want to know more have a look at the video by Clint Covington and Ryan McMinn on Channel 9...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 release and a new licensing model

2009-10-19T19:34:14Z

About 2 hours ago Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released to MSDN subscribers , the usual wait for the download now start! Also the revised SKU and licensing model for 2010 was made public by Brian Harry. This is meant to be simplification, but still remains fairly complex with the usually questions over ‘is that in this SKU or that?’ The key point for me is that the cost of entry for TFS is going to drop significantly, as the TFS server and a client CAL is included in the MSDN subscriptions with...(read more)

Access Services in SharePoint 2010 or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Access 2010

2009-10-19T18:52:44Z

So what I have I been doing of late? The blog has been a bit quiet. Well I have been having a good look at Access Services in SharePoint 2010. This has been an interesting experience, as I am not historically what you might call an avid Access developer. Like most .NET developers I had looked as Access as more of a file format than an application, something from the past. Something that I might use for a small data store, maybe in a web application hosted on a cheaper ISP that does not provide ‘a...(read more)

Local events reminder

2009-10-12T21:27:07Z

Wednesday this week is the next Agile Yorkshire meeting, there are 2 presentations and a discussion planned: Agile War Stories: A Project Managers Perspective. Ian Carroll User Story Estimation: Alan Williams An open discussion about Lean and Kanban in software development. As usual the meeting is at The Victoria Hotel, Leeds from 6:30 onwards for a 7:00 start. See www.agileyorkshire.org for more details. On Tuesday next week there is the West Yorkshire BCS meeting on ‘The World of Ubuntu and...(read more)

TFS for the small team

2009-10-04T17:56:44Z

Over the weekend Brian Harry posted on this blog about a new ‘Basic’ edition of TFS. This is aimed squarely small team currently using Visual SourceSafe. It will provide version control with work item tracking and can be run on SQLExpress. The key difference for the ‘Standard ‘ edition is that it will not have SharePoint or Reporting Services integration. For far fuller details check the blog post . I think this is going to be a really interesting addition to TFS. This announcement answers a question...(read more)

Agile Yorkshire Twitter feeds

2009-09-26T18:02:04Z

You can now get updates on Agile Yorkshire events via twitter @agileyorkshire...(read more)

TF250020 error creating new Team Projects

2009-09-02T20:00:27Z

Whilst working on our TFS2010 Beta 1 test server today I got the following error when I tried to create a new team project TF250020: The following SharePoint Web application is not valid: http://vs2010.mydomain.com . Verify that you have the correct URL. I thought this strange, as I was doing nothing I had not done before, creating a MSF Agile team project with default settings. What I did notice was that in the new project wizard I had the server URL as http://vs2010 but the error message said http...(read more)

Recording of my SQLBits Session on Visual Studio 2008

2009-08-31T10:16:46Z

A webcast recording of SQLBits IV session ‘Making the SQL developer one of the family with Visual Studio Team System’ is now available on the SQLBits site. This discusses the features of the VS2008 Database GDR Edition. Unfortunately I will not be proposing a session for this years SQLBits community event on the 21st of November 2009 at Celtic Manor in Newport , as I will be travelling back from the Microsoft PDC in LA...(read more)

Nice explanation of using Kanban for support

2009-08-21T08:45:50Z

Doron at Typemock has posted a nice description of how they use Kanban for managing support . A good introduction for those unfamiliar with lean...(read more)

This past week’s Nxtgen events

2009-08-20T12:21:38Z

Thanks to everyone who attended my two Nxtgen session on Sharepoint and Typemock in Birmingham and Manchester. You can find copies of the slide on the Black Marble site. There was a good deal of chat in how Typemock could be used for more general ASP.NET testing; if this is of interest to you I would strongly recommended Typemock’s next webinar on the 25th of August on Unit testing ASP.NET with Isolator and Ivonna...(read more)

Red button works in the BBC Interactive

2009-08-15T15:28:20Z

Cool, I just noticed that on Windows 7 Media Center with a Hauppauge Nova 500 T Tuner card the red button works; so at last I can get Digital Teletext and interactive channels on the BBC without having to know their actual channel numbers (and as I remember they were actually ignored by previous versions of Media Center without a registry hack anyway). This makes using MCE just like a standard Digital TV – should help general acceptance. This has certainly improved since the older versions ....(read more)

Nxtgen UK tour reminder

2009-08-15T09:21:42Z

A reminder that next week I will be speaking on ‘Developer testing of SharePoint projects using Typemock’ at two Nxtgen user groups: Birmingham on the 18th Aug 2009 Manchester on the 19th Aug 2009 Hope to see you there....(read more)

Speaking at Epicenter 2009, the Irish Software Show

2009-08-15T09:17:21Z

I am speaking at Epicenter 2009, the Irish Software Show at the end of the month. The conference runs from the Wednesday the 26th to Friday the 28th. My sessions on TFS 2010 are both on the Thursday the 27th as part of the ‘Microsoft zone’ Application Lifecycle Management - Moving beyond source control Making Testers Part of the Development Team This is an interesting conference as it aims to address a wide variety of technologies i.e. not just Microsoft or Open Source. I find this type of conference...(read more)

Upgrading my Media Center to Windows 7

2009-08-14T22:29:11Z

Over the past couple of days I have upgraded my Vista based Media Center to Windows 7. After my previous experiences upgrading from XP here , here and here I decided to do a new install onto a new 1Tb disk as opposed to an in place upgrade. This all went OK, there was nothing major to note, Windows 7 shipped with a driver for everything in my 3 year old AMD/ASUS based PC bar the sound card built into my motherboard, but that was easily downloaded. It is worth commenting that my Hauppauge...(read more)

Slides from yesterdays presentation at VBUG

2009-08-12T22:28:37Z

Thanks to everyone who attended my VBUG session yesterday on ‘Enabling agile development with Visual Studio Team System 2010’. I have just posted the slides on Black Marble’s web site...(read more)

Isn’t the new Paste preview in Office 2010 cools

2009-08-02T20:54:22Z

I love the new paste preview selection in Word 2010 This really is cutting down the number of paste, undo, paste special, damn undo again that failed so paste into paint or notepad, reselect and copy try again sequences I am going through....(read more)

Outlook 2010 email searching

2009-07-25T07:28:10Z

Since I installed Outlook 2010 technical preview I have not been able to search emails using the ‘search mail’ boxes in Outlook (which links into Windows desktop search). I had not realised how much I used the feature until it did not work. When I tried a search I was shown a dialog saying there was 40000+ items waiting to be indexed, and this number was not changing. It seemed that the indexing of Outlook contents had stopped. The solution I found was to reset the indexing process. In Outlook select...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 connecting to TFS 2010

2009-07-21T15:54:44Z

You can connect a Visual Studio 2008 IDE instance to a TFS 2010 server, as detailed in Martin Hinshelwood’s blog , but I cannot stress enough you have to have VS2008 SP1 installed . If you don’t, you get an error dialog when you enter the URL for the TFS server saying the URL contains invalid characters. This seems a simple rule, but as I found today it is easy to not realise your PC is not patched. You look in the about dialog for Visual Studio and it says SP1 installed, but the Team Foundation...(read more)

A major day in history

2009-07-21T13:27:50Z

With all this coverage of the moon landings I am surprised that the other major news item of 40 years ago today has not been covered – the Fennell family moved house. I ask you just what are the priorities of the news media?...(read more)