Richard Fennell : Technical Tips

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)

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)

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)

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)

Outlook 2010 crashing after in place upgrade

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:51:27 GMT

I downloaded and installed the Office 2010 technical preview today. All seemed to go OK (after I realised I could only do an in place upgrade from 32bit Office 2007 –> 32bit Office 2010), once the upgrade was done I could load Word and using...(read more)

Fun with a SQLExpress 2005 upgrade 2008

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:33:33 GMT

On my development PC I had a 2005 instance of SQLExpress that was installed as part of the VS2008 setup. I thought I had upgraded it when I put on the SQL 2008 Management tools and/or VS2010 beta, but it seems I didn’t. I thought I would try the new Microsoft...(read more)

Remember the new URL format for the TFS2010 web services have changed

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:25:37 GMT

To have a good look at TFS2010 I have migrated some existing VS2008 projects to VS2010. This has meant they are now being built using a new TFS 2010 build server. Now I wanted to make sure everyone still knew what was building and what was not, so I updated...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 project upgrade bug; test assemblies being copied to release folders in error

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:08:21 GMT

After I upgraded an ASP.NET Web Application VS2008 solution to VS2010 I found a strange problem. When I build either the whole solution or the test project in the solution the test assembly gets copies to Web Applications bin directory. However if I build...(read more)

Problems with uplink on an 8 port Netgear Gigabit switch

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:39:06 GMT

All the ports on the Netgear GS608 I think are meant to be auto speed and uplink sensing, I have found this not to be true. I had the 1Gb uplink to our central switches in Port 8 and a 100Mb Ethernet workstation in port 2 could not get an IP address via...(read more)

Timeouts on Bitlocker to go

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:51:16 GMT

Since moving to Windows 7 I have encrypted all my USB pen drives and external USB disk drives with Bitlocker to go . This has been working great for me, I have noticed no performance problems and it give nice piece of mind. The only irritation is when...(read more)

TF255048 Error when installing TFS 2010 beta 1

But it works on my PC! — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:38:09 GMT

When you setup a dual or multi server TFS installation you need to specify the location of the OLAP Analysis service instance that will be used for the reporting warehouse. As with much of the TFS installation and configuration process there is a test...(read more)

Microsoft.AnalysisServices Assemblies missing when configuring Reporting Services on dual tier TFS 2010 Beta1

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:23:50 GMT

TFS 2010 provides far more options for the configuration of your server than the previous versions. You now can easily make use of any existing server resources you have such as SharePoint farms or Enterprise SQL installations. Today I was looking at...(read more)

Getting "failed to start" with a SharePoint workflow

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:48 GMT

I have been playing around with some workflow code for a demo I am doing. This has meant creating and deleting a workflow project as I refine the demo. Whilst going through the process of a delete and recreate of the workflow (using the same name for...(read more)

Misleading error message adding a user on Windows 2008

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:11:12 GMT

Today I was setting up a new development VPC for SharePoint. When I tried to add a new user via the AD tools wizard I got the error "Windows cannot set the password for [new user], network path was not found" Forums suggest the issue is DNS...(read more)

Testing access attributes on the Microsoft MVC framework

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 01 May 2009 08:56:51 GMT

The MVC framework provides an excellent way to create a testable web site. In fact when you create a new MVC project you are given the option to create an associated test project that contains MSTEST unit tests for all the sample methods in the MVC Controller...(read more)

Licensing exception with Ivonna the Typemock add-in (and any other add-ins I suspect)

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:51:37 GMT

Like a good developer I have been trying to run Visual Studio with least privilege; with Windows 7 this seems to work well. My main account is not an administrator, but Windows prompts me for elevated rights when needed. I have been developing happily...(read more)

System.Web.Abstractions missing on a ASP.NET web site

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:55:41 GMT

I recently re-enabled feature on a ASP.NET site. This feature (a set of pages) had been running OK about six months ago for an initial pilot project but was disabled until now until a decision was made to develop the feature fully. In intervening time...(read more)

Live Writer crashing when adding hyperlinks

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:52:25 GMT

For a while I have had a problem that when I tried to add a hyperlink via the toolbar in Live Writer I get a dialog that Live Writer has stopped working, it doesn’t exit, it just des not open the modal window for adding a hyperlink. It was irritating...(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition GDR release - Createdeployment

But it works on my PC! — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:28:37 GMT

Whilst preparing for my session at SQLBits next weekend I was re-watched Gert Drapers' PDC session (TL45) where he used a command tool to deploy a database via a USB pen drive (about 30 minutes into the session) . Now it seems that the createdeployment...(read more)