Richard Fennell

TF53010 error and no TFS Warehouse updates after a SQL migrate

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:53:14 GMT

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...(read more)

A video on Access 2010

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:04:02 GMT

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

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:34:14 GMT

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...(read more)

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

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:52:44 GMT

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...(read more)

Local events reminder

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:27:07 GMT

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...(read more)

TFS for the small team

But it works on my PC! — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:56:44 GMT

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...(read more)

Agile Yorkshire Twitter feeds

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:02:04 GMT

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

TF250020 error creating new Team Projects

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:00:27 GMT

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...(read more)

Recording of my SQLBits Session on Visual Studio 2008

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:16:46 GMT

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...(read more)

Nice explanation of using Kanban for support

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:45:50 GMT

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

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:21:38 GMT

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...(read more)

Red button works in the BBC Interactive

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 15:28:20 GMT

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...(read more)

Nxtgen UK tour reminder

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:21:42 GMT

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

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:17:21 GMT

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...(read more)

Upgrading my Media Center to Windows 7

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:29:11 GMT

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...(read more)

Slides from yesterdays presentation at VBUG

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:28:37 GMT

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

But it works on my PC! — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:54:22 GMT

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

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 07:28:10 GMT

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...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 connecting to TFS 2010

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:54:44 GMT

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...(read more)

A major day in history

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:27:50 GMT

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)